Hilarious! David captures the humor in the daily things that we take for granted...And expresses his views with a wit and wisdom that I really, truly loved. ( )

I had never ready anything by Sedaris, and he took awhile to grow on me, but i do admit there were times I really laughed. Good light reading. Interesting personality -- someone you'd love to visit with at a cocktail party, but not sure he'd be a great friend. ( )

I was looking forward to my first David Sedaris book after hearing so many good things...but unfortunately, I thought it was incredibly boring. There were a few funny parts, but it took me a few months to finish simply because I had to read it story by story. ( )

The book I read was Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. The first half of the book is about David’s life before he moved to France and the second half is about his life in France. David grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and moved to New York City as an adult. When he met his boyfriend Hugh he moved to Normandy, France with him. The book is written in short humorous essays about random events in his life.

David was born in New York but his father’s job forced them to move to Raleigh, North Carolina. He was raised Greek Orthodox and had six siblings. As a young adult he experimented with drugs and alcohol, and diagnosed himself with OCD which he said smoking helped him cure. His sister is Amy Sedaris who is a comedy actress and they work together writing plays in New York. David publishes many of his short stories in The New Yorker and Esquire. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album and Time magazine named him Humorist of the Year in 2001. Now he lives in France with his boyfriend Hugh but comes to the United States to promote his books. His newest book is called When You are Engulfed in Flames and will be released in 2009.

I liked that this book was broken down into short stories that you could read in one sitting. The book was very funny. Every story was different but all of them made you laugh at some point. Some of the stories were funnier than other and actually made me laugh out loud. Things that you wouldn’t normally think were funny become super funny the way he writes about them. Certain events take you by surprise and you can’t believe they actually happen to him. I didn’t like that the stories kind of jumped around in the book. It was hard to tell at what stage in his life this was all happening and sometimes it was confusing as to where the event was taking place. I think David could have done a little better of a job with guiding the reader along from event to event.

I think people who like humorous books would like this book. Me Talk Pretty One Day would be part of the humor genre. It may be a little offensive to some but it’s nothing too serious and all in good fun. Nothing in this book is serious and it is a pretty quick easy read. Some stories are a bit boring but if you keep going it gets better. Also if you don’t like one of the stories you can just skip over it and go on to the next one because none of the stories connect or tie into one another.

David has seven other books out all in the same format as Me Talk Pretty One Day. If you liked this book I would defiantly recommended reading his other books also.

More hilarious and irreverant tales from a comic legend. This time Mr Sedaris shares his views on speech therapy, life in Paris, and an assortment of odd jobs in New York and much, much more. These short stories could describe everyday events in plenty of our own lives, but they're so much funnier when this guy tells them. ( )