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4.1 AVERAGE
4.1 AVERAGE
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SHORT REVIEW: I was skeptical before I began reading, partially because I'd never heard of David Sedaris, but mostly because I don't usually find humor in people trying to be funny. With that in mind, this book is a thing all its own: David Sedaris is funny, yes, but in that biting, sarcastic, conversational tone you share with your brutally honest best friend. It took me a few pages, but once I was laughing (loudly), I couldn't stop. I would recommend this book to everyone! At least, everyone leaning left, politically.
LONG REVIEW: I'm finally sitting on my couch, at eight in the morning, after spending a little more than an hour on the toilet reading Calypso, and all I can think is: I'm the poor man on the airplane who had the accident, or the poor guy with the gastrointestinal virus who let it go on his girlfriend's carpet. I'm David Sedaris, and I will not survive if something hasn't changed by my shift this afternoon.
That's the thing. Normally, I would take stomach trouble with a grain of salt, but David Sedaris has opened up a whole new set of possibilities. In the way that he has, he's convinced me that the absurdity of everyday life can, in fact, extend to my life. No one is safe! Politics, family matters, encounters with strangers, free-flowing diarrhea--things that I often take too seriously, Davis Sedaris has conquered with the kind of sarcasm I usually feel compelled to keep to myself.
Brazen, funny, and slightly (but hilariously) political, this is a book I'd recommend to everyone!
LONG REVIEW: I'm finally sitting on my couch, at eight in the morning, after spending a little more than an hour on the toilet reading Calypso, and all I can think is: I'm the poor man on the airplane who had the accident, or the poor guy with the gastrointestinal virus who let it go on his girlfriend's carpet. I'm David Sedaris, and I will not survive if something hasn't changed by my shift this afternoon.
That's the thing. Normally, I would take stomach trouble with a grain of salt, but David Sedaris has opened up a whole new set of possibilities. In the way that he has, he's convinced me that the absurdity of everyday life can, in fact, extend to my life. No one is safe! Politics, family matters, encounters with strangers, free-flowing diarrhea--things that I often take too seriously, Davis Sedaris has conquered with the kind of sarcasm I usually feel compelled to keep to myself.
Brazen, funny, and slightly (but hilariously) political, this is a book I'd recommend to everyone!
I just love him. This one was mordantly funny, as always, but it also cut to the core of problematic relationships with his family, especially his late sister and his dad. More so than in his other works. Dropped a couple unexpected tears on this one! (Both from laughing and sadness.)
Always hilarious and with this book surprisingly touching at times as well. Sedaris is a brilliant observer of and commentator on the hilarity, embarrassment, and confusion we call life. He is unscathing in his willingness to expose human weakness and inconsistency, but also human kindness, in his relationships and his own navigation through life. I do hate, hate, hate his shopping trips described in here. Those descriptions make me viscerally sick, that he travels halfway around the world and spends obscene amounts of money with zero apparent thought or regard for his environmental footprint- made all the more ironic by his obsession with picking up litter on his endless walks. Just such a bizarre oxymoronic set of activities- but then, something tells me that's exactly the kind of thing he'd be proud of. He is a puzzle and and an enigma and infuriating and occasionally endearing and an INCREDIBLY funny man.
hilarious. Does anyone else feel like David's books are meant to be listened to when he narrates them, not read? I could not stop laughing out loud (which I really needed), his inflection is just perfect. My sense of humor to a T.
I think David Sedaris is at his best when he’s writing about his family, and listening to him read his writings about his parents, siblings and longtime boyfriend Hugh is a real treat. While often as hilarious as his previous works, this book also deals with pain and grief, in chapters that I found particularly touching.
funny
lighthearted
reflective
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
by far my favorite david sedaris read