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Loading... When You Are Engulfed in Flamesby David Sedaris
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I love his sardonic humor. Sedaris has a knack for making the mundane daily grind hilarious. (  )lghudson | Jun 26, 2009 |   "When you are engulfed in Flames" by David Sedaris is a book of observations of his family and friends that can be laugh out loud funny and wonderfully snarky, but when you think about what's being said about these people and their individual idiosyncratic foibles the book is kind of sad and depressing. For this reader there is a fine line between need-to-know and too-much-information. I think Mr. Sedaris steps over it in this book more than once. One wishes that the author would spend more time observing rather than narrating. I get there has to be some personal in a personal essay, but I really wanted less of the personal this time around. (  )RoeschLeisure | Jun 22, 2009 | What fun! Irreverent humor from America's quirkiest writer. (  )ChocolateMilkMaid | Jun 17, 2009 | (#40 in the 2008 Book Challenge) I love truth in advertising; it's a David Sedaris book so I hoped it would be funny and it was funny. Great for my personal enjoyment, not so strong as a foundation for a book review, though. Grade: A Recommended: It's very David Sedaris. It's noteworthy, I think, that one's instinct is to say that it's great light reading, but he's very sneaky and a lot of his writing that seems light is, in fact, rather quite substantial. This seems particularly true about this book. delphica | Jun 10, 2009 | I find David Sedaris absolutely hilarious when he appears on This American Life, but when ever I read one of his books, it leaves me with a profound sense of malaise. His written word just doesn’t work for me. It was with this knowledge that I tried the audiobooks of “When You Are Engulfed in Flames,” in hopes that I just needed Sedaris’ delivery to enjoy his book. Happily, this was indeed the case. I found “When You Are Engulfed in Flames” to be a very enjoyable collection of essays. I’d say that the title essay, which was the last one and by far the longest, was probably my least favorite. Sedaris does have a tendency to ramble, which is usually mitigated by the short nature of his essays, but it became overly apparent in the long essay. I would forget for long periods that his whole Japan adventure began with his attempt to quit smoking. A bit slow at the end, but overall the David Sedaris audiobook was a very enjoyable experience. ( )DevourerOfBooks | Jun 3, 2009 | 1  0.032 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316143472, Hardcover)"David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book.Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames: "Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist Table of Contents: It's Catching Keeping Up The Understudy This Old House Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie? Road Trips What I Learned That's Amore The Monster Mash In the Waiting Room Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool Memento Mori All the Beauty You Will Ever Need Town and Country Aerial The Man in the Hut Of Mice and Men April in Crybaby The Smoking Section (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:54 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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