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4.17 AVERAGE
4.17 AVERAGE
This book was part of a book club. Some of the essays were wonderful, entertaining and thought provoking. Others were disturbing at best and even the slight skim was almost painful.
Author Sedaris has selected best works in this collection. I have heard some before (I wholeheartedly recommend audio versions for all of his books), but some were new to me. Humorous essays and some more serious, including a reflection of his sister who committed suicide. Note - several selections that I have heard muliple times still make me laugh out loud :)
I wish I liked my family the way David Sedaris does his
who was going to tell me how funny david sedaris is?? hilarious, satirical, ridiculous. LOLed a few times
A curated selection of David Sedaris’ work over the years, “The Best of Me” delivers in a way that only an author like he can. I personally had not read any of his fictional short stories which were sprinkled throughout and had me laughing. Though I found earlier this year that Calypso was a more consistent narrative, this too was a great book.
No, it's not. I like his essays, but mainly when he's reflecting on his life and experiences. This one had too many stories about invented people and too many fables with animals. Most of those were terrible. The ones about him, many of which I do remember from other books, keep this up to average.
Some favourites in there, and I thoroughly enjoyed the interview at the end, almost as much as the NYT Book Review I/V with Pamela Paul. But if you've read all the really good ones, this has nothing new to offer, it really is a "best of..." compilation, curated by DS himself. I am not sure I'll ever get over the treatment that poor Tiffany received when she went to see him at the stage door. :-(
When I saw that this was coming out, I was bummed it wasn’t new work and was instead a collection of previously published essays. What a mistake- this was such a joy to read. The progression he placed them in makes the stories he picked all the more poignant, funny, and just beautiful. I loved it.
