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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This book was so funny, though a bit outdated.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
This book was so funny, though a bit outdated.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
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...
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...
Graphic: Animal cruelty
Moderate: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic relationship, and Emotional abuse
neridan's review against another edition
dark
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
2.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Drug use, and Emotional abuse
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