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Summary: Less Funny - More Mature
Review: Though I found 'Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim' to be funny, I did not find myself to be laughing out loud as much when reading Sedaris' earlier works. It's not that the writing is worse, it's actually better.I had read a number of these essays in other pieces (i.e. New Yorker, etc), so there was some familiarity with this work. For all of his painfully funny stories, he shows more depth to his work. Though he never says it outright, he clearly misses and identifies with his mother ("Being mocked by the untalented was easy to brush off, but my mother was really good at imitating people.")and comes slightly closer to being his father. In the essay "Put A Lid On It" I found it a poignant moment he has with his sister who states about the entire family, "Don't you get it? I don't *like* you people." But I do. I love his family stories. Especially the ones that include his mother or another sister, Amy (which there are none in this book) and Rooster, his brother. The book is about half as long as I would like it, but you take what you can get.
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