celestelipkes 's review for:

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris

2.0

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Waa Waaaaa. I'm a fan of Sedaris, but this is not his best by any means. It's interesting that this is his first book: it only gets better from here. The first half of Barrel Fever = a series of unconnected stories that manage to be super sexual and in-your-face without being even remotely funny. Most of them are just gross, actually. I stopped reading them and skipped to the second part of the book, a series of short essays. While a few of them are v. entertaining (it's immediately clear where Sedaris' strengths lie), it doesn't save the book.