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Oh dear. I had wanted to like this more, but I think I'm just not the right reader for Sedaris. Have read two of his books so far, and both were just alright (nothing spectacular, but that's just my opinion). I think his writing lacks sensitivity and a certain elegance/style. It just feels like the kind of book that's better 'listened' to than read. Would make a decent audiobook to be played to fill a silence that needed to be filled. Perhaps I've read this too late, so a lot of his jokes felt 'dated' (esp. the political ones).
The only bit I thought was almost 'perfect' was the one where he goes on about his stomach virus. And his mother's alcoholism (but that could've been written better). I guess another thing that I didn't 'enjoy' about Sedaris' book is of how a lot of his writing is about his own problematic behaviour which he tries to justify somehow? Like how he didn't treat his sister very well before her death/suicide, but then rambles on about how 'his family' had told him that he shouldn't be feeling bad about it because she had always been hard-to-deal-with anyway? Or like the time(s) when he made bad and offensive jokes, and got blocked? And just a few other subtle things - like how he is always making low-key offensive comments about people who look/act homeless; and low-key racist 'jokes' which inevitably just makes him look like that overly-excited (but annoying) tourist that people tend to roll their eyes at.
The only bit I thought was almost 'perfect' was the one where he goes on about his stomach virus. And his mother's alcoholism (but that could've been written better). I guess another thing that I didn't 'enjoy' about Sedaris' book is of how a lot of his writing is about his own problematic behaviour which he tries to justify somehow? Like how he didn't treat his sister very well before her death/suicide, but then rambles on about how 'his family' had told him that he shouldn't be feeling bad about it because she had always been hard-to-deal-with anyway? Or like the time(s) when he made bad and offensive jokes, and got blocked? And just a few other subtle things - like how he is always making low-key offensive comments about people who look/act homeless; and low-key racist 'jokes' which inevitably just makes him look like that overly-excited (but annoying) tourist that people tend to roll their eyes at.