Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

Fiction - Humour - ISBN: 0316777218, 0316777722, 0349113904, 0349113912, 3935136021, 0316776963 more

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David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on ... more
bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of
Santaland Diaries a scathing, hilarious account of
his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's department
store. Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him
in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy
from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his
bizarre career path and his move with his lover to
France.Though his anarchic inclination to digress
is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these
reminiscences: the inability of humans to
communicate. The title is his rendition in
transliterated English of how he and his fellow
students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic
language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves", he and his
classmates from many nations try to convey the
concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a
party for the little boy of God", says one. "Then
he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber",
says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes
between his Protestant mother and his father, a
Greek Orthodox man whose Easter fell on a
different day. Other essays explicate his deep
kinship with his eccentric mother and absurd
alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the
greatest mystery of science continues to be that a
man could father six children who shared
absolutely none of his interests".Every glimpse we
get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers
laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina
speech therapist ("for whom the word pen had two
syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with
"s" sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to
correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister
Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his
obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire"
all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding
a match". As a remarkably unqualified teacher at
the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his
class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on
what would happen in the next day's episode. It
all adds up to the most distinctively skewed
autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to
Cambodia. --Tim Appelo
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David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on ... more
bestseller lists, mostly on the strength of
Santaland Diaries a scathing, hilarious account of
his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy's department
store. Sedaris's caustic gift has not deserted him
in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy
from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his
bizarre career path and his move with his lover to
France.Though his anarchic inclination to digress
is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these
reminiscences: the inability of humans to
communicate. The title is his rendition in
transliterated English of how he and his fellow
students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic
language. In the essay "Jesus Shaves", he and his
classmates from many nations try to convey the
concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. "It is a
party for the little boy of God", says one. "Then
he be die one day on two... morsels of... lumber",
says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes
between his Protestant mother and his father, a
Greek Orthodox man whose Easter fell on a
different day. Other essays explicate his deep
kinship with his eccentric mother and absurd
alienation from his IBM-exec dad: "To me, the
greatest mystery of science continues to be that a
man could father six children who shared
absolutely none of his interests".Every glimpse we
get of Sedaris's family and acquaintances delivers
laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina
speech therapist ("for whom the word pen had two
syllables") by cleverly avoiding all words with
"s" sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to
correct. His midget guitar teacher, Mister
Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn't share his
obsession with breasts, and sings "Light My Fire"
all wrong--"as if he were a Webelo scout demanding
a match". As a remarkably unqualified teacher at
the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his
class watch soap operas and assign "guessays" on
what would happen in the next day's episode. It
all adds up to the most distinctively skewed
autobiography since Spalding Gray's Swimming to
Cambodia. --Tim Appelo
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Review of Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris by zoe_page

Advantages: Interesting, unusual style and content
Disadvantages: A one-off type of book, when really you could do with a series of 2 or 3 to enjoy.

...just the style that made me think of this point though – when I was at school I would have been admonished (in the days before I knew that 3 syllable words existed) for flitting between 1st and 3rd person, and from past to present to future tenses, all within one story. Sedaris, though, gets away with this all in the name of “art” and to be honest, the result isn’t as horrifying as it could be. I saw this book in the British Bookshop on Vienna’s ...
...took me until 7 months later to get a copy of it because I was holding out for the mainstream paperback edition to be released. When it was, it didn't appear in highstreet bookshops for quite a few days showing that despite the famous author, it's not quite a Bridget Jones / Harry Potter release. Once it was within my grasp, it was read from cover to cover in 3 nights, with every morsel being savoured and enjoyed. Think Bill Bryson without quite ... Read review

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Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

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Author: David Sedaris

Title: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Genre: Humour

Type: Fiction

ISBN: 0316776963; 0316777218; 0316777722; 0349113904; 0349113912; 3935136021

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