A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern … annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless. The New York Times Book Review on Naked
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. The man is funny, I guess, but not my cup of tea. Very New York.
“witty” is not enough. Try “fucking hilaious.” “Maybe some day me talk pretty. maybe someone somebody love you. Maybe tomorrow, okay?”
And OMG his family is the perfect mix of insane and real.
David Sedaris tells witty, masterful family tales with subtle touching moments. You’ll want to keep hearing about all of them!
Read this long ago and it really made an impact.
David Sedaris never disappoints. These comical short stories are memorable and re-readable!
Loved this book. Very funny and poignant. One of his best.
Just not my cup o tea
The title drew me in and I have been hooked on Sedaris since. He is uncomfortably honest in a way the leads to tears of laughter and thoughts like “Thank God it’s not just me!”
This is my favorite Sedaris. A couple of his essays still make me laugh so hard I’m crying even though I’ve read them a number of times.
Hilarious!
This collection is laugh out loud funny. It’s also sensitive, honest, and clever. It is my favorite of his collections.
Hilarious!
Everything by David Sedaris should be considered a little treasure, and this particular one is my favorite. Alternately funny and teeth-gnashingly tragic in the best possible sense.
I’m not a fan of David Sedaris. This book was ok, but he’s not nearly as funny as he thinks he is.
One of my favorite books of all time. Laugh out loud funny!
One of the funniest books I’ve ever read. LOVE David Sedaris!
SO funny!
I frequently laughed out loud! Highly recommend.
The author is a national treasure.
The chapters were vignettes from the author’s life. Funny, but also annoying. Very gay author who was strong out on drugs for long periods, did nothing meaningful with his life, wasted his college education on menial labor, but lands a wealthy sugar-daddy who ensures he can live in Paris and never work hard in his life. He has no socially redeeming value whatsoever.