Dress your family in corduroy and denimJuly 22, 2008 0 out of 8 found this review helpful
I NEVER have received the book...I got charged for it but can't get a response back from anyone!!!!!!
So disappointedJuly 18, 2008 I had to read this book for a book club and it was very difficult to get through. The story was all over the place and it just didn't have a flow and continuity to it. I enjoy Sedaris' work and was shocked that I had such a hard with this book. Try it for yourself and let's discuss.
charasmaticJuly 11, 2008 makes you fall in love with his unremarkable characters, who do nothing grand and simply just...live
More poignant than humorousJuly 3, 2008 I don't believe that Sedaris intended a hilarious read like Me Talk Pretty One Day. While reading this book, all I could think was that he was pouring his heart out about some very painful events in his life and about painful observations about humanity (the chapter about TV, for instance) but had to throw in some comedy for those who expect it from him. I read this book and laughed out loud a number of times, but I also cried a few times. This book was very well written and is funny but also painful at times.
Pleasing introductionJune 10, 2008 3 out of 4 found this review helpful
A copy of Dress Your Family etc was given to me by a friend, with an enthusiastic recommendation, and served a my intro to humorist Sedaris. A collection of family and daily life-based stories, some are LOL funny, some are poignant, and a few are merely snide. Among my favorites are the hilarious Dutch Christmas essay and final vignette, a tale about a carload of European tourist who stop at the Sedaris house in his French "willage", and David sees the contents of his home through their eyes. The other members of the Sedaris family, with the exception of his witty mom, could not be more different from David, and not only because he is gay. His knack for nail-on-the-head characterizations is outstanding, but he does not allow the comic aspects to obscure the human ones. Witty and wise without being preachy.
