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3.98 AVERAGE
3.98 AVERAGE
Me Talk Pretty One Day was the first David Sedaris I read, several years ago, and I still remember laughing so hard while reading it in bed that my husband kept leaning over to ask what was so funny - I always had to hand him the book, because I couldn't possibly have read it aloud without becoming hysterical.
The first part is focused on Sedaris himself and his family; the second deals with Sedaris's struggles with life in France with his new lover. The bits in the second half about his language classes are worth the price of admission all by themselves, particularly "Jesus Shaves", wherein the class tries to explain (in French) Easter and Jesus to a Moroccan Muslim: "He calls his self Jesus and then he die one day on two...morsels of...lumbers."
Okay, now I'm laughing again, so I'll stop there. Just go read the book, but not anywhere you can't laugh out loud.
The first part is focused on Sedaris himself and his family; the second deals with Sedaris's struggles with life in France with his new lover. The bits in the second half about his language classes are worth the price of admission all by themselves, particularly "Jesus Shaves", wherein the class tries to explain (in French) Easter and Jesus to a Moroccan Muslim: "He calls his self Jesus and then he die one day on two...morsels of...lumbers."
Okay, now I'm laughing again, so I'll stop there. Just go read the book, but not anywhere you can't laugh out loud.
funny
reflective
medium-paced
funny
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
funny
fast-paced
The funny thing about this book is that before I read it I had no idea who David Sedaris was and I kept seeing it at the bookstore and avoided it like the plague because I thought it was one of those preachy uplifting books about some poor kid overcoming a speech impediment. So when my girlfriends picked it for our book club I was less than excited, but of course this book is nothing like that and is hilarious. So glad they picked it.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
emotional
funny
reflective
medium-paced
This was great as an audiobook, hearing Sedaris tell it in his own words made it better. Some of the stories are 5 stars, others not as much. Glad he included stories from his standup, the youth in asia was by far my favorite story.
funny
reflective
medium-paced
All the essays, while not connected, are funny and give me a good sense of David's life. Some of them are laugh out loud funny.