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garleighc's Reviews (2.22k)
First off, if a book can make me actually laugh out loud then it fully deserves five stars. I mean, people in the lounge in my residence hall were staring at me wondering if I was okay. But on top of the hilarity this book actually probes some serious philosophical issues (plus it makes fun of dogs) and I appreciated her spin on life and how she deals with her "unfortunate situations and flawed coping mechanisms."
I appreciate this one for the literary merit but honestly UGH. Too much oversymbolized sexuality, and the entire book hinged on ONE GIRL making one TINY MISTAKE with a boy and it sends her brothers into a downward spiral and her family toward collapse. I guess that's the point Faulkner may have been trying to make, but the whole southern thing just got old for me too and I couldn't stand about half the book's narration. I'm done.
I loved this. That is all. It was well-written in classic King style and the plot was great (to me at least) and I just loved it.
Book made me laugh hysterically in front of other people, thus it deserves five stars. I love how much this book deals with being an American abroad, too, because the mentality of Americans as foreigners Sedaris describes are still often seen... I definitely could relate to a lot of the stuff he wrote about in France, in a way.
Vaguely interesting, and it's good journalism, just I don't have a good track record with nonfiction. And I couldn't decide if I liked Daley or not throughout the book.
This book just kept making me laugh. Maybe I had accidentally inhaled some weird fumes up here in Berkeley, but I mean this book was just FUNNY. All the same familiar characters as his other ones, just for some reason everything was ridiculously comical.
The last book for geography class! It was a tad melodramatic, but it was fast and action-packed and did a great job of sensationalizing Detroit in all its problems. I really enjoyed this on a certain nonfictional level though.
I loved his last story, "The Smoking Section," about how he quit. He inspires me because it took him forever to get his life going and find success, it makes me feel like not such a huge screw-up for not having a job yet. =)
Still just as funny as his others, but he includes this smaller chapters that are from other people's viewpoints. Not quite sure what the larger theme behind them is (besides satire) but they're over-the-top and hilarious and I sort of like this in his style.
I finished this like a week ago, whoops. I loved it, everything it said was really true and I love that it incorporated quotes from other people who are known to be "original". Another great work from Austin Kleon.