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A review by numinous25
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
2.0
As a newcomer to the David Sedaris revolution, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim probably shouldn't have been first on my list. This memoir wobbles on its stunted three legs and delivers a less satisfying version of the requisite dysfunctional family as well as his adult relationships. Every hundred pages or so, there is a spark of something that suggests at Sedaris's muffled talent, but it quickly peters out in a bathos of self-pity and unremarkable prose.
The root of the problem is that David Sedaris is an unlikeable person. He presents himself as a self-centered coward soon after the beginning and continues to reaffirm his assholeish behavior in a half apologetic and half gloating tone (which is infinitely worse than his actual or perceived character). While the first fifty pages or so held some interest and a whiff of charm, the last two hundred were an irritable and slow grind.
The root of the problem is that David Sedaris is an unlikeable person. He presents himself as a self-centered coward soon after the beginning and continues to reaffirm his assholeish behavior in a half apologetic and half gloating tone (which is infinitely worse than his actual or perceived character). While the first fifty pages or so held some interest and a whiff of charm, the last two hundred were an irritable and slow grind.