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I don't very often find myself moved by a book to emit loud noises in public, but when I first read David Sedaris's essays and short stories, they made me laugh so hard I had to stop taking them on the tube. All his collections are good but 'Barrel Fever (is the best’ )
#NAME? ('A satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathaneal West’ )
New YORKER ('David and Amy Sedaris have a deadpan delivery as ironic as the words they read. The two of them create a nuclear barrage of humour you could never replicate by reading this material on your own’ )
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#NAME? ('A satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathaneal West’ )
New YORKER ('David and Amy Sedaris have a deadpan delivery as ironic as the words they read. The two of them create a nuclear barrage of humour you could never replicate by reading this material on your own’ )
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*A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
No one writes quite like David Sedaris. This collection of stories and essays reaches new highs/lows in comedy so caustically humorous, that guilty pleasures become real. Revel in his memoir of his love affairs and fights amongst the rich and famous such as Charlton Heston, Pat Buchanan, Chuck Connors and his ultimate love, Mike Tyson. Listen in on Sedaris' account of living with his aunt and hearing all of his Mother and her sister's sordid stories. Nothing smacks of hilarious hypocrisy more than Sedaris telling his freind Gill he that he drinks too much while he cannot understand why using the vacumn cleaner as a pillow unintentially is wrong. If you have ever known a smoker, "Diary Of A Smoker" will have you licking ashtrays to stop from laughing. Of course, Sedaris chooses his most famous story, "The SantaLand Diaries" for last. This is the ultimate barometer for true magic in the commercialized Christmas world we all have to endure. Barrel Fever is worth it just for this one essay!
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I first encountered David Sedaris when cruising through the original amazon,com site, and have gone on to buy this book for every available birthday present that I've needed for the last six months. The book is a series of short episodes (rather than stories) all with a twisted and unusual perspective. Each one of them is laugh out loud funny. To provide a point of reference with UK comedy is difficult - it would appeal to anyone who likes a laugh and who maybe prefers something quirky rather than straight-forward. Having recommended it to one friend, he phoned me the next day to say he'd read the whole thing and declared it was his favourite book. Buy it and laugh.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
David Sedaris, you are a funny, funny man.
"The SantaLand Diaries" (the final story in the collection) really IS worth buying the book for and the other stories are all magnificently written, warped and wonderful.
One of the funniest books I have ever read,
"The SantaLand Diaries" (the final story in the collection) really IS worth buying the book for and the other stories are all magnificently written, warped and wonderful.
One of the funniest books I have ever read,
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Different from his autobiographical stories
...but despite that difference, it still manages to surprise with the variety of narrative voices and the absurd situations which Sedaris describes. Read more
Published 1 month ago by pennpal
really really funny...
i came accross this while looking for "a book that is funny" on google. i wasn't dissapointed with this. very amusing.
Published 8 months ago by Gcrikey
Skip This and Re-Read Me Talk Pretty One Day
What a tremendously disappointing read. If it weren't for the final story, Santaland Diaries, I would have only given this book one star, and only then because I couldn't give it... Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2008 by Graceann Macleod
Sedaris is the funniest man alive
None of David Sedaris's books have disappointed me. Neither have those of Chuck Palahniuk or Jackson McCrae, so I know when to stick with a good thing when I find it. Read more
Published on 16 Nov 2007 by Gerry Phipps
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