2024 the best of me david sedaris review

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Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him all over again.

He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine.

From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds, to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers.

Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris' sixth essay collection has been avidly anticipated.

Reviewer: Michelvis
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sedaris Strikes Again
Review: I don't share much of a background with David Sedaris, I'm not from a "middle class" family, I have no college education (IVY LEAGUE even, c'mon), no one in my family has had anything to do with the arts, I'm an only freakin' child, I'm born bred and have always lived in the North West, I don't even have a passport let alone the means to live in any country I please... The list could continue and for some readers things like this make Sedaris' writing out of reach, even insulting.The thing is though we seem to have absolutely nothing in common we do have one thing, tiny as it may be, we the commanality of being human and living during this particular era. That is what connects me to him and his writing, his humble humanity. He knows he isn't a beauty queen, he consistently blunders through life making mistakes, playing the fool even and yet he has this amazing ability to WRITE about it, to share it with thw world and make fun of himself OUT LOUD to millions of readers. I love him for that, I love him for the fact academia hasn't sapped the humanity out of him and made him feel blunder proof or at least made him a blunder snob, hiding behind eight letter words that no one knows the true meaning of, ducking behind an Ivy league education.I picked this particular book up because my best friend is in the hospital, has been, will be, for a while. I have learned that he CANNOT handle being alone so I sit there, hour upon hour and try to read him to sleep. Sedaris' short stories and essays are perfect hospital food right? The problem is reading them aloud for the first time is hard because he makes laugh out loud (and not many do)so in the quiet hospital corridors one room is bellowing with laughter, from me, from my sick friend who really shouldn't be laughing right now, it hurts him, but he won't let me stop. A nurse cruises in inevitably when I am reading something that out of context seems dirty, it becomes even funnier.My context of reading this particular Sedaris book aside it is really a very funny, charming piece of literature that connects with the reader on many levels. The parts that others seem to be offended or put off by, I say read them with zeal, be happy that someone out there is making enough money off being a boob, off proudly being a boob to travel to Japan and France and across the U.S. and is taking the time (for money maybe but whatever) to share his experiences as a pretty much average Joe with us. Be happy to read from someone who relishes in the oddities, who isn't always tring to make you sympathetic and tearful. It really is a rare quality. You will find that most contemporary memoir(ish) literature relies on human empathy and sad, sad, sad, SAD parts of life. It's nice to take a break and read from someone who can tell you abot his mother dying of lung cancer in one paragraph and have you giggling in the next.Comedy or Tragedy, life is what you make of it. Trust me I have my own fair share of the comedically tragic, but when my friends can laugh at the crazy things I say and do when I am hallucinating because Lupus is attacking my brain I am way better than when they are crying over it.David Sedaris has the ability to make you laugh over things that put another way might make you cry. AND he has inspired me to REALLY quit smoking, I am done with cigarettes.

Reviewer: S. S. Tyree
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Review: I’m a David Sedaris fan. I have read several of his books. He has an uncanny sense of humor and can take an ordinary life experience and basically make it extraordinary. He never ceases to amaze me with his seeing far beyond the daily life that the rest of us are often blind to.

Reviewer: Alisa Bowman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Dark and funny
Review: I love David Sedaris. This is the third of his books that I've read. It's not quite as funny as the others, but I don't think it's really supposed to be. His story about his neighbor Helen did make me laugh out loud for a very long time, though. My husband thought something was wrong with me. I had tears.What I loved about his book more than the others is that I felt as if I knew David inside and out by the end. I felt as if I could go out to dinner with him and we'd be like old friends, catching up after all of these years. His writing is so endearing, which has to be hard to pull off, considering some of the topics. I love a man who loves spiders? How does that happen? But I do.David also finds a way to write about being gay that easily crosses over. Straight boring moms such as myself will find all of his relationship stories interesting. In fact, when he writes about his relationship with Hugh, I found myself nodding, "Uh huh, been there David. Right on!" And he's so right about the exorbitant amount of time us straight people spend trying to figure out how gay sex takes place. (But why didn't you tell us David? You make fun of us for wanting to know, but then you don't satisfy our curiosity). His trials about quitting smoking are also enlightening and help me to better understand my friends who smoke.The only criticism I have about the entire book is that I could have done without the line about a type of cracker tasting like penis. Hey I know what that tastes like, and I don't want that taste going anywhere near my crackers. Other than that, I love the book and highly recommend it.

Reviewer: Camellia Chanel Friesen
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Chanel in LA
Review: A pleasure to read, as usual. I literally laughed out loud in public at some parts and cried in public at others.

Reviewer: newyorker
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sedaris fan
Review: An entertaining read and worth reading all the way through, but not my favorite of his works. The diaries, Naked, and Me Talk Pretty are better.

Reviewer: Donna Depinet-Dasher
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Hilarious stories about Sedarkis and his family
Review: Short stories/essays can be read in a few minutes -- I don't have to stay up all night finishing the book! The book is laugh-out-loud hilarious.

Reviewer: Virginia
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: As usual, hilarity ensues!
Review: I've always enjoyed reading Sedaris, wondering at the same time how his mind works. To be able to write humorous antidote consistently takes a strange way at looking at life. Thanks for the laughs, David!

Reviewer: NancyP
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Funny Read
Review: This is the first David Sedarus book I've read, and I loved it. His thinking reminds me of my own..off the wall. It is hilarious at times. Highly recommended author.

Reviewer: Alan O.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: humourous, a brilliant author

Reviewer: redkettle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: David Sedaris's voice enhances his writing and delivery. He is a gem, a funny one too. Well done.

Reviewer: Richard Stephens
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Wouldn’t it be nice to have coffee or a drink with David Sedaris and just listen to him comment about what’s going on around us?

Reviewer: Cliente de Amazon
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Hilarious on every page. A bunch of autobiographical essays that make a flight or any afternoon a great moment of healthy laughs.

Reviewer: Renee from Quebec
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I feel part of his family