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Title: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris ISBN: 0-316-77696-3 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.18 (490 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Asthmatics and heavy smokers beware!
Comment: Bottom line: This book will make it difficult to catch your breath regardless of your current lung capacity.
I first heard Sedaris on NPR one morning and found myself choking on my toothpaste from laughter. Months later I saw this title while perusing a local bookstore. I picked it up to have some fluffy reading on the beach not realizing I'd tear through it before I ever reached my vacation spot. My husband thought I was mildly deranged from all the hooting and giggling on that road trip.
Since then, I've consumed the rest of Sedaris' work with breathless enthusiasm while impatiently waiting to attend his local appearance this coming April. I purchased several of his books for folks on my holiday shopping list to share his gift for distilling the utterly hilarious from the painful and/or embarrassing moments of life. Four days after Christmas and I'm already receiving thank-you notes about it.
David Sedaris is a comic treasure. And who couldn't use a little levity after spending the holidays with dysfunctional relatives? Order this book now and request express shipping! Just remember to breathe every page or so.
Rating: 5
Summary: You'll roar out loud -- absolutely HILARIOUS!
Comment: CAUTION: "Me Talk Pretty One Day" is one of the FUNNIEST books you'll EVER read. You'll laugh out loud until you're embarrassed. You'll roar at wisecracks so biting and mean that you'll feel guilty. And if you read a certain (in)famous chapter you'll howl with laughter, pretend you shouldn't have read it -- and read it again...and howl.. again.
The acid-pen Sedaris shot to fame reading his humorous stories over National Public Radio (and he still insisted on cleaning houses for money). The book's first half has stories on various subjects (family, art class, teaching writing, working for tough bosses etc.). The second deals with his experiences in moving to France with his lover.
Sedaris spares no one -- not his father, sister, teachers, artists or himself -- from his scapel-sharp, insight-filled humor. Some wisecracks are instant classics. When he tries to
become an artist, dabbling in questionable performance art, he writes of artists: "Their artworks were known as 'pieces,' a phrase I enthusiastically embraced. 'Nice piece,' I'd
say. In my eagerness to please, I accidentally complimented chipped baseboards and sacks of laundry waiting to be taken to the cleaners. Anything might be a piece if you looked at
it hard enough."
When a museum wants him to do some performance art it seemed "as though I should play hard to get, but after a moment or two of awkward silence, I agreed to do it for what I called 'political reasons.' I needed the money for drugs."
In a chapter detailing the lives and deaths of his various pets: "When my mother died and was cremated herself we worried that, acting on instinct, our father might run out and
immediately replace her." When he's invited to teach: "I was clearly unqualified yet I accepted the job without hesitation, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name
Mr. Sedaris." And what a sadistic French teach told him:"Every day spent with you is like having a cesarean section."
In his most innovative "piece," a chapter called Big Boy, he describes his battle with (ahem) something he sees in a toilet. You'll roar while you read this short three page story
and hate yourself for reading it...and read it again. The book contains some adult language and adult situations. DESERVES MORE THAN FIVE STARS!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Savor the laughter!!!
Comment: I have taken my sweet time getting to the end of this book. And now I am rewarded for my efforts. Sedaris's 'Dress your family...' is about to arrive on June 1st. HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!
'Me talk pretty...' is so WONDERFULLY REFRESHING. I have taken a lot of time to get through it because I just don't want it to end.
But NOW I can finish it and enjoy a new Sedaris book in just a few days.
'Naked' was my first introduction to Sedaris and I found myself laughing even harder with 'Me talk pretty one day'. He depicts his life adventures (trully that is what they are) with such dry humor that you will indeed find yourself laughing in public, if you chose to venture outdoors with his books. The reader should be warned!
I LOVE DAVID SEDARIS!!! BUY HIS BOOKS, NOW.
(Except for 'Barrel Fever', not as funny.)
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Title: Naked by David Sedaris ISBN: 0316777730 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Holidays on Ice : Stories by David Sedaris ISBN: 0316779237 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Barrel Fever : Stories and Essays by David Sedaris ISBN: 0316779423 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall by David Sedaris ISBN: 1586215647 Publisher: Time Warner Audio Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers ISBN: 0375725784 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 13 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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