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Pros & Cons
Pros
Me talk pretty is a wonderfully absurd book. I never say this, because humor and wit is. Wit in this book, it’s not the fault of the author's. This isn't my genre but i'm so glad i took a chance on him.
Personal stories are refreshing and heartfelt. Some are funnier than others. The pandemic creates a need for humor.
David sedaris presents his full human self in this collection of essays. The late show (maybe a top 5 sedaris essay) shows us a peek inside the fantasy worlds he creates in his mind.
His father's eating habits are creative compulsions. He much prefers hot dogs to the elaborate and expensive entrées in soho.
Cons
Book seems to be a diatribe of actual or perceived childhood social injuries that some might find amusing.
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Quality
From his many language blunders to his awkward efforts at translation he learns humility and gains appreciation for the ways in... Read More
While these compulsions may lead to trouble at times he gestures to how they are in some ways an opening to see reality and its... Read More
Tried to read passages to my wife with a straight face but gave up after multiple tries
But the real piece de resistance is his documenting of his struggle to master the french language made particularly trying as a... Read More
Shipping
Arrived in a timely fashion and as described
The book arrived in perfect shape and a day early
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funny, first, french and loud. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 77.3% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 8,814 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 24 2024.
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The book is comprised of two sections part one and part deux in which the latter half focuses primarily on sedaris’s time in normandy france
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The first three chapters of the book take place at different points in sedaris’s childhood
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In the last chapters of part one sedaris explores some of his job struggles as an underpaid writing instructor an underappreciated personal assistant to an eccentric heiress and a mover
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While sedaris achieves a greater level of financial stability as an adult these chapters articulate his preference for things that are simple and nonpretentious over something with appeal that is more glamorous
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Part deux takes place primarily in france a country that sedaris begins exploring after meeting his partner hugh who owns a second home in normandy
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In considering his trouble with sleeping he reveals how alcoholism had served as an unhealthy sleepaid for some time before his fantasies took their place as a slightly healthier way of occupying time at night
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This practice coupled with sedaris’s father’s odd behavior of keeping and consuming food past its prime is a comment on compulsive behaviors that one brings from the past into the present
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This isnt my genre but im so glad i took a chance on mr
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