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Naked by David Sedaris
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mairangiwoman | Jun 16, 2009 |  
The mixure of outrageous description and insight with the wacky nature of life viewed through an off-kilter perspective make this essays enormously entertaining. Some of them are bleak and poignant, but mostly they offer dark, sardonic humor brimming over because of the crazy nature of humanity. Make sure you can laugh out loud where-ever you read this. ( )
doxtator | Apr 22, 2009 |  
What can i say about this book that hasn't been said already.? I do not recommend reading this in areas that require absolute silence, such a library, places of mediation, funerals or during recording sessions. You are bound to laugh out loud and get strange looks for others around you. ( )
mzebra | Feb 3, 2009 |  
At times so funny I peed a little. ( )
dilldill | Oct 17, 2008 | 1 vote
I enjoyed this book. It was very funny. It wasn't as good to me as Me Talk Pretty One Day, but I still did not have a hard time getting into it. ( )
AlbinoRhino | Sep 4, 2008 |  
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I'm thinking of asking the servants to wax my change before placing it in the Chinese tank I keep on my dresser.
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Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Reviews (ISBN 0316777730, Paperback)

Hip radio comedy fans and theater folks who belong to the cult of Obie-winning playwright/performer David Sedaris must kill to get this book. These would be fans of the scaldingly snide Sedaris's hilariously described personal misadventures like The Santaland Diaries (a monologue about his work as an elf to a department store Santa) seen off-Broadway in 1997. In a series of similarly textured essays, Sedaris takes us along on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his own childhood, and a dozen more of the world's little purgatories.

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400)

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