Reviews tagging 'Death'

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris

3 reviews

avidreaderandgeekgirl's review against another edition

funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.25

   Another hilarious collection of stories about David Sedaris' life.
   This book was so funny, though a bit outdated. My favorite was the colonoscopy story, which is weird of me, but I think it was the funniest. Other than one of the stories at the end for students to read, because of how the son got his terrible mother to dress. 

Narrator Rating: 3.5
  The author did an okay job reading it, though his voice is kind of odd you get used to it.

Elemental Levels:  Fluff-NA   Heartfelt-2/5   Helpful-NA     Horror-NA    Inspiration-NA  
Love aka Romance-NA    Mystery-NA     Predictability-NA    Spice-NA    Suspense-NA   Tear- 0.5/5  
Thrill-NA  Humor-5/5 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug use, Religious bigotry, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Homophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Sexual violence, Murder, Cursing, Medical content, Ableism, Sexual harassment, Transphobia, Racial slurs, Sexism, Body shaming, and Death

Minor: Cancer, Infertility, Animal death, Suicide, and Child death

A lot of these are either in the little essays at the very end or because he's being brutally honest and accurate as to how people behaved when he was growing up aka the 60s-80s. I think that's why I found the colonoscopy story the funniest because it didn't include any of these but the medical content.

petsuka's review

dark funny lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

3.0

As usual a wonderful compilation of short stories from Sedaris. I loved happy place, #2, dentist, kookaburra, owls and rubbish especially.

I really disliked loggerheads. The animal cruelty was a bit too much for me...
Also the ficitinal short stories weren't my thing. I would have wished that the aurhor had marked them so that I could have skipped them entirely. But he hadn't, so from time to time I wondered why sedaris has a number of children, speaks a weird dialect or is radical christian just to realize that I stumbled upon one of these short stories... 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse

hmih's review against another edition

dark funny lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty

Moderate: Sexism, Death, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Drug use, Drug abuse, Xenophobia, Alcohol, and Grief