Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris will make you laugh, as he makes fun of himself, and the people he meets along the way. This is especially great to listen to on long road trips when you need more than music to get you through the drive.

I did not receive the books I ordered, but I did get a full refund.

Mr Sedaris Writes really funny stories and a lot of them reveal something about being human. I often identify with these insights and feel less alone.

Again, David rocks. I can go on and on about his witty observations and uniqueness and what-have-you, but I shan't. All I know is that the book makes me laugh and I really find many things that are meant to make me laugh to be unfunny. I accidentally left this book at a deli and the staff was sad when I came to retrieve it. It was living behind the bar and the employees were grabbing quick reads between shifts. It probably is now filled with innumerable germs and food borne bacteria but I love it and will not part with it and still reread it when I need a lift--which is quite often.

I like to retell Sedaris stories. My favorite from Me Talk Pretty is the one where David compares his boyhood experience watching a Herbie;the talking car movie in the States with that of his boyfriend Hugh who watched it in an African country. Hugh's father, a diplomate, was late picking him up from the theater so he had to wait outside while a dead man hung from a post, swinging in the breeze.

I never tire of hearing about my husband's crazy and fascinating foreign childhood.
Our Lives Have Gone To The Dogs

I was enjoying the book in the beginning, when David was dealing with his lisp and all. Sedaris is a very witty writer and I appreciate that. However, by the middle of the book I was losing interest. The character became less witty and more irritating as he progressed through adulthood in Paris. He led a life so sad, even Sedaris failed at putting an interesting spin on it.