great fun and clever as ever

I really enjoyed another trip down David's memory lane. He always makes me laugh with his quirky view of the world.

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Very funny

A fab collection of amusing essays and annecdotes. Great to dip in and out of.

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moving, funny and always sincere

sedaris stories with the right amount of embarrassment and humility always ensures humour and warmth. all his recounts blur into one long anthology for me so i can not say if this is better or worse than his other works. less glimpses to his family in this one though. they are always my favorite stories particularly with amy or his father so i had to rate it a little lower.

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Brilliant

This is my first foray into the printed, autobiographical world of Mr. Sedaris and I don't care what anyone says in their reviews: I REALLY LIKED IT! and I read it two times. It's a lightning quick read.

As with most humour, people will either get this or they won't. This is evident by the reviews. However, even the reviewers that gave quite a low star rating, still had a few good things to say – so, not all doom and gloom.
Also, let's not forget that your own mood determines how funny something actually is at that point in time.

It is worth mentioning that many of the essays in this book are not linked, they are not always about himself and he does jump from character to character a bit (which didn't bother me in the least). This gave me the feeling of someone telling you a true story on the fly, rather than constructing one.
Personally, he ran me through the whole gamut of emotions by going from laugh out loud funny to dark and poignant, even heartbreaking, but always with the overall tone of self deprecation, which he seems to do well.
Mr. Sedaris seems open and honest and exposes his unusual quirks and behaviours on the page with ease, which I find admirable.
Yes, some sections were marginally better than others, but overall I really, really enjoyed the writing and the observations he proffered.

I honestly don't know how anyone could fail to find the colonoscopy story "The Happy Place" or "Rubbish", funny. 10 dollars well spent.
I will be trying a few more of his works, and I won't expect them to be as good, but if they are... BONUS!
Sergiu Pobereznic (Amazon author)

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A giggle

The perfect gift for all owl-loving diabetics and their friends! Thankyou David Sederis., I"m about to start another. This one came highly recommended, the next ...?

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Sounds like the rabbit from alice in wonderland

It's funny. A nice book to listen to only made me chuckle almost out load one time. But I am hard to please

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Loved it.

Thoroughly enjoyable. Quirky, funny, refreshingly different. Worth a second and third listen. I loved it.

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Funny entertaining book

Awesome, dark sense of humour. l laughed out loud on more than one occasion.

The tone david uses throughout maintains interest. The live recordings make it seem like stand up comedy. It will have you in stiches in these parts! If you like satire and black humour.

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Witty & wonderful

David certainly has a unique perspective on life. He tells the kind of subtle, unexpected jokes that have you laugh out loud, a beat too late. Loved this book!

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Dark, entertaining, and blackly funny

Live recorded essays intersperse Sedaris' soundbooth recodings, adding an extra dimension that makes hearing this book in the writer's own voice truly entertaining, and reminds a listener that Sedaris is first and foremost a humorist, when his essays occasionally become darker than expected.

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