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| 80% Recommended by our customers. Publisher: Little, Brown & Company Catalog: Book Release date: 2004-06-01 Media: Hardcover Format: Bargain Price Number of pages: 272  Tip: compare prices with similar booksAuthor:
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 Written on March 2, 2008 Summary: Excellent! Highly recommended! This book stood out on the shelf. At the time i purchased it i knew nothing of David's works and boy was I in for a surprise! Reading David's collections is one of those guilty pleasures you just cant describe to people. This book is by far one of my all time favorites. I look forward to his new title "when you are engulfed in flames".  Written on February 29, 2008 Summary: Worth Reading This was my first Sedaris book. I didn't quite know what to make of it when I started reading it, but it grew on me. Sedaris has to grow on you. His books seem to be a compilation of short stories about his life...a strange life. Anything he writes is entertaining and he's a comfortable, easy-to-read writer. Recommend. Written on February 29, 2008 Summary: WARNING: Don't Read In A Public Place! Why? Because you'll be laughing so hard that people will stare at you. This is one of the funniest books ever. I read it while I ate lunch at a restaurant and laughed so hard I cried! A Must-Read! Written on February 2, 2008 Summary: for folks between novels I'm between 4 and 5 stars on this one... There are a couple of stories that don't "do it" for me, stories that I more/less regard as filler for the binding. And then there are the rest of the stories in here which are (all of them) blisteringly, timelessly, laugh-out-loud funny. Maybe it helps that before this came out, we saw him read several selections from the collection. For that, I'll err on the side of five starts. "Yes, I am talking about boat trailers. But also, I am dying." Written on January 27, 2008 Summary: Not his best work. So. David Sedaris. Well, let's be clear. Nobody with a funnybone can hate David Sedaris. And neither do I. But it has to be said - this last book ("Dress your family in corduroy and denim") was a disappointment. Judging by the number of people showing up for his readings here in San Francisco, and its lengthy sojourn on The New York Times bestseller list, it obviously did pretty well commercially. And, based on the enormous amount of accumulated goodwill from his earlier books, I don't begrudge DS his commercial success. Not one bit. Well, OK. Maybe just a little bit. Because, for the first time, in this collection, we see clear indications that Sedaris is bumping up against his limitations. How so? I think it's because Sedaris is at his best when he writes from the point of view of slightly marginalized outsider. In his earlier stuff, he was poor, he's gay and he managed to achieve a tone of bemusement in reporting what went on around him that was completely hilarious. In the face of increasing commercial success, the edge that was conferred by his being poor became harder to maintain. But he and his boyfriend moved to France, thereby achieving automatic outsider status, and Sedaris was able to mine this for comedy gold. His accounts of misadventures while learning French are truly funny, and credit must be given for the way in which he makes the comedy seem so effortless. But that's his previous book "Me Talk Pretty One Day". Problem is, the whole 'marginalized outsider' position seems less and less tenable for an author whose books spend months on the best seller list. Similarly, after a few years in France, the forces of assimilation are bound to cut down on the number of amusing misunderstandings funny enough to be worth writing about. This leaves one other area which Sedaris has mined fruitfully in previous books - anecdotes about his family. Indeed, the majority of the stories in this latest collection are family-based anecdotes. However, the stories in this collection do not come close to matching the wit and poignancy of those in earlier books, suggesting that this vein of inspiration may be close to being tapped out. Hardly surprising - any author would lead with the funniest material; this collection has occasional flashes of wit, but never reaches the 'laugh-out-loud' quality of the earlier books. Several pieces in this collection (describing his brother's wedding, his job one summer at the State Fair) are downright pedestrian, and a couple of pieces just fall flat - ruminations about apartment-hunting while visiting the Anne Frank house, accounts of visits with two of his sisters, whose feelings about being featured as bit-players in this, or subsequent collections are decidedly mixed. It's to Sedaris's credit that he too is ambivalent on this point, but his soul-searching on the issue doesn't make for interesting reading. One of Yeats's later poems is called "The Circus Animals' Desertion"; in it, he bemoans the fact that the themes which inspired him early in his career have lost their inspirational power. "Dress your family in corduroy and denim" supports the notion that David Sedaris may be experiencing similar difficulties. But don't count him out yet. His previous books established Sedaris as a hilarious, extremely talented writer. Anyone can have one mediocre book. Let's hope he will leave it at that. |
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| Catalog | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book | Book |
| Release date | 2004-06-01 | 2001-06-05 | 1998-06-01 | 1998-11-01 | 2008-06-03 | 1995-06-01 |
| Media | Hardcover | Paperback | Paperback | Paperback | Hardcover | Paperback |
| Format | Bargain Price | - | - | - | - | - |
| Number of pages | 272 | 272 | 224 | 144 | 336 | 208 |
| Ean | - | 9780316776967 | 9780316777735 | 9780316779234 | 9780316143479 | 9780316779425 |
| Book Isbn | - | 0316776963 | 0316777730 | 0316779237 | 0316143472 | 0316779423 |
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