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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as funny as it gets
Always an entertaining author.
Love this author
Hilarious!
HILARIOUS.
Too difficult to read for me. Although, I didn’t work at it for long.
I started dog-earing (gasp!) pages that made me laugh out loud. The book doubled in length by the end.
Love everything Sedaris writes.
One of Sedaris best books. He can take a subject most people don’t even think about and turn it into a witty observation that leaves you laughing out loud. Thouroughly recommended.
David Sedaris cracks me up!!
I read this on the train and had the entire train car staring as I laughed out loud. Loved it!
Made me laugh aloud
Loved it
The funniest book I have ever read. Loved it!
This is one funny guy. And a very good writer.
David Sedaris is original and laugh out loud funny.
Laugh out loud funny
Extremely funny and clever, the kind of book that makes you laugh aloud on the subway like a crazy person!
David Sedaris helps us all put our relatives into perspective. First, you must laugh at them. There is no better person to teach us how to do that.
The writing is intimate, and while his family are presented as eccentrics with a real zest for living, the viewpoint is warm and loving. You are invited into the Sedaris family, and grow to really care about them. Plus, you simply must find out what is next!
I love almost everything he writes.