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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!