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Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
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A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9780316776967
ISBN: 0316776963
Label: Back Bay Books
Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: 2001-06-05
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Studio: Back Bay Books
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Me talk -
The item came in the exact description as was given to me at time of sale. The book wasn't as funny as the author's other published works but that is okay.
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Ah...good old David Sedaris... -
...reading his stories is like watching your crazy neighbors scrapping next door through a hole in the wall, and it's hard not to look away. You just think...thank God that's not my family! Like his other books, Me Talk Pretty is made up of numerous humorous (and hopefully exaggerated) anecdotes from Mr. Sedaris' recent and not-so-recent past.
In the first story, a young David hilariously attempts to outwit the Agent--actually a young female speech therapist assigned to rid him of his lisp. About halfway through the book, after self-depracating discussions of his failures as guitar student, performance artist, and creative writing teacher who pulls his lesson plans from daytime Soaps, Sedaris again broaches the topic of "talking pretty". This time, he is trying to learn French. He wants to live with his boyfriend in a tiny Normandy village, which is difficult if the only French word you know is "ashtray".
I thought the depictions of his French class and village life were the highlight of this collection, especially "Jesus Shaves" and it's discussion of Easter. When Sedaris makes the faux pas of mentioning the American tradition of the Easter Bunny, his (decidedly masochistic) French instructor corrects him: "here in France, a giant bell flies in from Rome bringing chocolate for all the boys and girls." David observes that "a bell has all the personality of a cast-iron skillet." And when a Moroccan muslim student asks about the point of Easter the other students, in their limited vocabulary, provide comic, wholly inadequate explanations.
Bottom line: extremely addicting fare from Mr. Sedaris...laugh-out-loud funny in a macabre sort of way.
Occasionally funny, but mostly boring -
I bought this book because of the many rave reviews even on the book cover itself. I was greatly disappointed. It is funny in places but mostly sad. It is the story of a mostly dysfunctional person and his family: his overbearing father, cigarette smoking and alcoholic mother, and talented but uninterested siblings. Some parts are just pathetic as when Sedaris uses drugs. My suggestion is to read a library copy first and then buy his books if you find them worth the money.
Hilarious! -
Great, funny & entertaining stories. Laughing out loud like mad. If you get embarrassed easily, definitely do not read in public :)
Can't wait to read the rest of his work!
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get on tape -
Priceless Advice to you all : get it on tape, he has the cute little boy voice and he does various impressions of whomever he is telling the story about.
Some are better than others but there are several that made roll with laughter.
I loved hearing about his dad and all of his wierd packrat habits and his clark griswold like optimism
His little sister Amy who lives with her imaginary boyfriend and likes to play mean, bizarre pranks on people.
fav essays were Youth in Asia , Go Carolina and the last one where his dad only most eats his hat.
the one about his drug use was devastating and bothered me alot because everything was so funny and then he starts on such a serious topic..But I think it was brave that he put it his novel.
If you like dry funny conversational essays, you will enjoy this.
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