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Title: Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris ISBN: 0-606-25173-1 Publisher: Turtleback Pub. Date: June, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.10

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Average Customer Rating: 4.19 (508 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Me Laughing Still!
Comment: The title of this book had me thinking "What could this be?" Having missed Naked and Sedaris' NPR stints, I had no idea what was in store for me. What a treat this book was - many times, I laughed so hard that tears came streaming down my face. "Can't Kill the Rooster", and "Jesus Shaves" were the two chapters that had me gasping for air. Sedaris' wit is genius - and this sick, wonderful look at life through the eyes of one bizarre guy is near perfect. Only problem was - it was so deliciously funny that I read it way too fast.

Reminded me just a little of Bridget Jones. If you have an open mind and a slightly warped sense of humor, get this one. Just don't read it on a train!

Rating: 5
Summary: one of the funniest books I've read
Comment: This is how funny this book is. I had read it 2, maybe 3 times before I ever attempted to read any part of it out loud to anyone. It's so funny I still couldn't make it past about the third paragraph without having to stop reading because I was laughing so hard. I stopped every other paragraph throughout, choking and snorting and gasping with laughter. Really it was a shameful performance on my part. But this isn't the best indicator of how funny the book is. What should really tell you how funny the book is is that even though mine was not exactly a smooth or even fully comprehensible reading, my listener still laughed. A lot.

These essays are amazing. At times I thought that Sedaris has just had an unusually funny life filled with strange characters, that he has better material than the rest of us. But then I thought, shoot, I've taken language classes and spent time in a country where I didn't speak the language, and I didn't get even one really good story out of it. It takes talent to have seen the humor in many of these experiences, and talent to have preserved that humor on the page. Throughout the book Sedaris makes much of his drug-addled brain and mediocre intelligence, but he's clearly a genius.

I'm reading it for about the fifth time now, and I'm still laughing too loud.

Rating: 4
Summary: absolutely hilarious
Comment: I have never read a book so consistantly funny. I wasn't laughing at every page, but there was at least one line or paragraph in each essay that honestly made me laugh out loud. I won't give any away; enough are posted here. Any more, and I'd give away half the laughs.

I'll admit, I wondered what was going on in Sedaris' head at some points, but at others his thoughts so closely mirrored my own that it was just too funny. His one-liners and anecdotes are wonderfully witty (my favorite was the American tourists in Paris who arrogantly think no one else on the train speaks English). He accurately points out negative qualities of Americans in the second half, yet he doesn't talk down to his readers as he himself is a lazy loaf who spends most of his time in France in a movie theater. Just wonderful. You'll laugh your way through it.