- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; New edition edition (15 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753812487
- ISBN-13: 978-0753812488
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 887,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathaneal West (New YORKER )
Sidesplitting (New York TIMES BOOK REVIEW )
Genuinely funny, at time hilarious . . . Makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium . . . Highly likable and spirited throughout (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ) --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Sidesplitting (New York TIMES BOOK REVIEW )
Genuinely funny, at time hilarious . . . Makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium . . . Highly likable and spirited throughout (PUBLISHERS WEEKLY ) --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
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*A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the #1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cure for selfish whining about family,
By A Customer
This review is from: Naked (Paperback)
David Sedaris writes mostly about his family (including himself), but instead of relying on the tired old wouldyoubelieveit style to get their personalities across, he makes obsessiveness, predictability and contemptuous familiarity seem normal and inevitable. Which they probably are. The writing is very 'straight' for such a hilarious book, and it's appallingly and brilliantly clear - you're not spared just exactly how everything felt, even though he doesn't exactly tell you.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Twisted, Insane and Hilarious! Unique!,
By Martin A Hogan "Marty From SF" (San Francisco, CA. (Hercules)) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Naked (Paperback)
Only David Sedaris can take a mundane activity and turn it inside out so intensely and simply that you can't stop laughing. This collection includes his morbid Greek grandmother who turns the family life upside down until they force her into not one, but two nursing homes where she traumatizes all around her. As a youngster, Sedaris finds an old pornographic novel with horrible typos that speaks of relentless incest. Passing it down to his sisters, they all develop a fear of their "sexual prowling" parents. Senior Sedaris tricks the kids into going golfing only to have sister Lisa have her first period at the fourteenth hole in front of all the Golfing big shots. Does the author stop hitch-hiking after several attempts on his life? No. This he finds exciting, made all the better when he can produce marijuana to calm any fag-hating drivers. The stories are alarmingly fresh and Sedaris' viewpoint is so violently skewed, you wonder how he lives his life at all. This is a hilarious outlook on life.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
He can't go wrong,
By Trianny Smalls (Manitoba) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Naked (Paperback)
Sedaris is a great and funny writer. Humour is hard to do standing up, but on the written page it can fall flat and be fatal. Sedaris's book ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY is his best work and NAKED takes a good solid second place to that. I'd give BARREL FEVER third. This said, you should still read NAKED as it has got some great material in it. "A Plague of tics" is by far the best thing in the book and you'll wet yourself in public reading this if you're not careful. Would also recommend the funny book KATZENJAMMER by McCrae if you want something Sedaris like but with a great many twists and turns.
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