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Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

by David Sedaris

3.98 · rating details · 67,188 ratings · 3,812 reviews

David Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds. The family characters his readers love are all here, as well as the unique terrain the...more

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Published July 1st 2004 by Little Brown & Co. (first published May 25th 2004)

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Jun 06, 2009

Michelle rated it

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I thought I was over David Sedaris. I don't mean that I don't like him. I do. His essays are funny, but after a while they all seem to run together. He mines the same territory again and again -- stories of growing up with his dysfunctional, quirky, yet lovable family. Stories of himself as the odd and awkward kid growing up and trying to figure out how to live in this world.

I wasn’t going to buy Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim in print, but I saw the audio version, read...moreI thought I was over David Sedaris. I don't mean that I don't like him. I do. His essays are funny, but after a while they all seem to run together. He mines the same territory again and again -- stories of growing up with his dysfunctional, quirky, yet lovable family. Stories of himself as the odd and awkward kid growing up and trying to figure out how to live in this world.

I wasn’t going to buy Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim in print, but I saw the audio version, read by Sedaris himself, on sale at CompUSA when they were going out of business and selling their entire inventory for cheap. I couldn’t resist even though I much prefer to read books rather than to listen to them. I did nothing with it for more than a year until I decided I should listen to it while going for walks around my neighborhood.

I found myself rolling my eyes, not laughing, and quickly becoming bored. Finally I had the idea to take the book with me when I drove places. I felt I would get through it much quicker that way and could finally move on to something else.

It turned out that that was the way to listen to David Sedaris. Walking around the neighborhood while thinking about the pain in my hip and how at 38 years old I’m afraid I’m going to have to have a fucking hip replacement is no way to appreciate him. I just wanted to slap the shit out of him and his idiosyncratic family/neighbors/and everyone else he was talking about. Relaxed and driving on the freeway with his pleasant voice in my ear was the way to go. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that it made me want to listen to his books rather than read them, which was kind of a first for me.

That being said, it’s not going to come as a big surprise that this collection is more of the same types of stories we’ve heard in the past, but I have to say that Sedaris really shines when he talks about his sister, Tiffany, and his brother, Paul (a.k.a. The Rooster). Those were my favorites in the collection.

I was also sad to learn that Sedaris’s mother, Sharon, has passed away. I’ll never forget his Ya-Ya refusing to call Sharon by her name and stubbornly referring to her as “The Girl” because she was pissed she wasn’t Greek. And if you already know and love The Rooster, man are you in for a treat when Sedaris reads in Paul’s voice. Something about this charming, well-spoken man saying the words “She had tubes coming out of her pussy” in a thick southern accent cracked me up more than reading it on the page ever could.(less)

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Jul 15, 2007

David rated it

So. David Sedaris.
Well, let's be clear. Nobody with a funnybone can hate David Sedaris. And neither do I. But it has to be said - that last book ("Dress your family in corduroy and denim") was quite a disappointment. Judging by the number of people showing up for his readings here in San Francisco, and its lengthy sojourn on The New York Times bestseller list, it obviously did pretty well commercially. And, based on the enormous amount of accumulated goodwill from his earlier bo...moreSo. David Sedaris.
Well, let's be clear. Nobody with a funnybone can hate David Sedaris. And neither do I. But it has to be said - that last book ("Dress your family in corduroy and denim") was quite a disappointment. Judging by the number of people showing up for his readings here in San Francisco, and its lengthy sojourn on The New York Times bestseller list, it obviously did pretty well commercially. And, based on the enormous amount of accumulated goodwill from his earlier books, I don't begrudge DS his commercial success. Not one bit.

Well, OK. Maybe just a little bit. Because, for the first time, in this collection, we see clear indications that Sedaris is bumping up against his limitations. How so? I think (and make no claim for the originality of this analysis) it's because Sedaris is at his best when he writes from the point of view of slightly marginalized outsider. In his earlier stuff, he was poor, he's gay and he managed to achieve a tone of bemusement in reporting what went on around him that was completely hilarious. In the face of increasing commercial success, the edge that was conferred by his being poor became harder to maintain. But he and his boyfriend moved to France, thereby achieving automatic outsider status, and Sedaris was able to mine this for comedy gold (his accounts of misadventures while learning French are truly funny, and credit must be given for the way in which he makes the comedy seem so effortless). But that's his previous book Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Problem is, the whole 'marginalized outsider' position seems less and less plausible for an author whose books spend months on the best seller list. Similarly, after a few years in France, the forces of assimilation are bound to cut down on the number of amusing misunderstandings funny enough to be worth writing about. This leaves one other area which Sedaris has mined fruitfully in previous books - anecdotes about his family. Indeed, the majority of the stories in this latest collection are family-based anecdotes. However, the stories in this collection do not come close to matching the wit and poignancy of those in earlier books, suggesting that this vein of inspiration may be close to being tapped out. Hardly surprising - any author would lead with the funniest material; this collection has occasional flashes of wit, but never reaches the 'laugh-out-loud' quality of the earlier books. Several pieces in this collection (describing his brother's wedding, his job one summer at the State Fair) are downright pedestrian, and a couple of pieces just fall flat - ruminations about apartment-hunting while visiting the Anne Frank house, accounts of visits with two of his sisters, whose feelings about being featured as bit-players in this, or subsequent collections are decidedly mixed. It's to Sedaris's credit that he too is ambivalent on this point, but his soul-searching on the issue doesn't make for interesting reading.

One of Yeats's later poems is called "The Circus Animals' Desertion"; in it, he bemoans the fact that the themes which inspired him early in his career have lost their inspirational power. "Dress your family in corduroy and denim" supports the notion that David Sedaris may be experiencing similar difficulties. But don't count him out yet. His previous books estalished Sedaris as a hilarious, extremely talented writer. Anyone can have one bad book. Let's hope he will leave it at that.

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Jul 26, 2007

Sarah rated it

Shelves: post-college-greats

This book makes me laugh myself sick every time I read it. Blood Work and La Nuit of the Dead are put together so perfectly. Sedaris creates a series of misguided attempts at human connection that seem doomed to fail through selfishness or insecurity, but somehow don’t. Sedaris is so good at exposing the frailty of those emotional connections without ever doubting that they can still sustain our relationships. He makes me relate to even the most impossibly awkward and painful situations. Every t...more

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Apr 30, 2010

karen rated it

Shelves: it-is-for-class, nonfictions

this is a book by david sedaris.
shrug.

i mean, what else am i supposed to say? it's not like he went out on a limb here and wrote a space opera or a bodice ripper. it's david sedaris. if you like him, you will probably like this one. if you don't, you probably won't.

this is not my favorite of his collections, but i laughed out loud three times, which i think is pretty good. i like laughter.

**one time, connor made david sedaris laugh. he has yet to w...more

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May 16, 2008

Jon rated it

Recommends it for: people who like to laugh, people who think they're funny but really aren't

Shelves: all-time-favorite-books

A collection of writings by David Sedaris.

Quite possibly the funniest book I've ever read.

(There's a little language and stuff, so I don't recommend reading it out loud to the kids. But I guarantee you will laugh out loud to anyone sitting near you. Which means don't read it on a crowded airplane.)

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Aug 05, 2011

Angus rated it

Shelves: blogged, nonfiction

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Intro

If you’ve been following this blog closely, you will realize that I picked this up right after finishing Me Talk Pretty One Day. I have this habit of fangirling over stuff that got me. A victim of this habit is Sedaris. Or maybe I am the victim? Either way, the fangirling usually doesn’t last. It rarely lasts.

Thus said, this is the ...more

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Aug 03, 2010

Jesi marked it as didn-t-finish · review of another edition

Shelves: humor, non-fiction, memoir, short-stories, read-in-2010, audio, tnbbc-group-read

So, I got about 7% into the book Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim before just not being able to listen to it anymore. It, quite literally, was making me sick to listen to it. The main characters are shallow, "broken," and... well, the stuff of sitcom characters. They're (to me) sick, but "normal" which was making my head explode. I suppose, in a way, you could say that the book was "dark humor," which is pretty hit or miss to me.

The family really ...more

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Sep 25, 2008

Lucy rated it

What if you could write about whatever you wanted? What if no topics were off limits, no person's feelings or privacy taken into consideration, no personal flaws purposely left unmentioned in order to be protected from ridicule?

You would probably write exactly like David Sedaris.

To actually write like David Sedaris, however, you'd also have to be intelligent, impeccably attentive to details and most importantly - uncommonly funny. With that winning combination, Sedaris's ...moreWhat if you could write about whatever you wanted? What if no topics were off limits, no person's feelings or privacy taken into consideration, no personal flaws purposely left unmentioned in order to be protected from ridicule?

You would probably write exactly like David Sedaris.

To actually write like David Sedaris, however, you'd also have to be intelligent, impeccably attentive to details and most importantly - uncommonly funny. With that winning combination, Sedaris's unencumbered writing creates a truly fascinating look into his life and way of thinking.

Take, for instance, a neighborhood family that supposedly doesn't watch any television. You've know them, or at least heard about them. But have you hidden yourself in bushes outside their house watching them at night? Sedaris spied on this family with fascination, watching them interact at the dinner table during the evenings and feeling sorry for the absence of television in their lives. After watching one of their children at school being left out of a joke that made reference to a TV show, Sedaris writes, "It occurred to me that they needed a guide, someone who could point out all the things they were unable to understand. I could have done it on weekends, but friendship would have taken away their mystery and interfered with the good feeling I got from pitying them. So I kept my distance."

Then, when this same family showed up for Trick-Or-Treating the day after Halloween, Sedaris expresses what must be universally believed: "Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it."

The subject matter varies wildly from chapter to chapter, but each contains Sedaris's hilarious spin on what would probably appear to most outsiders, nothing to write home about. Although there are several uncomfortable chapters that touch on situations involving his homosexuality, his willingness to expose himself, and, I suppose his willingness to expose his loved ones, give his writing an important and appreciated perspective. It's so enjoyably honest! I mean, he writes about going through the Anne Frank House while simultaneous apartment hunting and wanting to live there because it's "cute." Totally irreverent. But when he talks about ripping out the wood stove so that the fireplace would be the focal point and thinking the attic, with its charming dormer windows, could be his office...it ends up being really funny.

The best chapter for me was called Six To Eight Black Men when he describes in laugh-out-loud detail the Christmas traditions in the Netherlands. Of course he begins the chapter by pointing out some of the more unusual local gun laws in various states of the USA, mentioning as an interesting fact that in Michigan - blind people are allowed to hunt...alone. As the chapter nears its end, and you wonder what the two stories have to do with each other, he finishes by sharing his thoughts while sitting in a Dutch train station. "I couldn't help but feel second-rate. Yes, the Netherlands was a small country, but it had six to eight black men and a really good bedtime story. Being a fairly competitive person, I felt jealous, then bitter. I was edging toward hostile when I remembered the blind hunter tramping off alone into the Michigan forest. He may bag a deer, or he may happily shoot a camper in the stomach. He may find his way back to the car, or he may wander around for a week or two before stumbling through your back door. We don't know for sure, but in pinning that license to his chest, he inspires the sort of narrative that ultimately makes me proud to be an American."

Funny, funny stuff.(less)

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Jul 26, 2008

Michael Kneeland rated it

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim delves further into the fascinating, hilarious, and otherwise utterly bizarre life of David Sedaris and his family. This collection of his essays is quite good--among my favorites of his--because throughout most of it, he manages to find a moving balance between the tragic and the comic.

Take, for instance, "The Ship Shape," about how his family almost bought a summer home, but ultimately lost out on the chance because of his father's...moreDress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim delves further into the fascinating, hilarious, and otherwise utterly bizarre life of David Sedaris and his family. This collection of his essays is quite good--among my favorites of his--because throughout most of it, he manages to find a moving balance between the tragic and the comic.

Take, for instance, "The Ship Shape," about how his family almost bought a summer home, but ultimately lost out on the chance because of his father's fickleness with money. The essay starts off humorously enough, with plenty of zany details, like the absurd names his family comes up with for the summer home in question. But by the end, we have a rather melancholic picture painted of the family, headed by a father who would like to give his family something nice like a summer home on the beach, but is just too fickle to actually go through with it.

Then there is "Hejira," about how Sedaris' father kicked him out of the house seemingly because he was an unemployed college dropout whose number of bong hits surpassed his number of trips out of the house, but really, we learn, because he was gay. We have plenty of funny anecdotes throughout, giving us hilarious images of Sedaris sitting stoned in his room listening to the same Joni Mitchell record over and over again, but by the end, we see ultimately see a father who finds his son so unacceptable that he removes him from the situation. From reading his other works, we know that Sedaris and his father eventually mended ways, but as "Hejira" closes, we only see a depressed young man wanting to be acknowledged for being, as he puts it, "special."

Of course, there is also plenty of outright absurdity, such as "Six to Eight Black Men," which I have my students read each year during the holiday season; and "Rooster at the Hitchin' Post," which is on the outset about his obnoxious, foul-mouthed younger brother's wedding, but we eventually see is about the relationship between Sedaris and his brother. These are wholly hilarious, and do well to offset much of the depressing downheartedness emoted from the essays mentioned above.

Fans of Sedaris will certainly appreciate this collection of essays. Newbies may find his life and family a bit too bizarre to digest at first, but after pushing through will realize the palette of emotions mentioned earlier. After all, while Sedaris' life is strange and usually utterly absurd, it is still life nonetheless.(less)

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Aug 28, 2007

Jennifer Good rated it

Recommends it for: anyone needing a laugh

oh so hilarious...

"What the hell are you doing?" she whispered, but my mouth was too full to answer...as she closed the door and behind her and moved toward my bed, I began breaking the wax lips and candy necklaces pulled from pile no. 2. These were the second-best things I had received, and while it hurt to destroy them, it would have hurt evern more to give them away. I had just started to mutilate a miniature box of Red Hots when my mother pried them from my hands, a...more

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Apr 09, 2009

K.D. rated it

Shelves: humour, memoirs, gay-lit

This is a funny book! It contains real life anecdotes experienced by the author in various stages of his life. I bought this book in LAX when I got stranded for a missed flight in Columbus in 2005. I remember that there was a funny anecdote about Christmas which made me laugh all by myself and I could relate to it because it was December and I was looking forward to going back home to Manila.

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Aug 06, 2008

Jenny Schmidt rated it

Never before have I read a national bestseller that mentions my very own elementary school in Raleigh, NC. Yikes!

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Mar 24, 2010

Aaron rated it

This seems to be the book that people most point to when highlighting Sedaris' talent. Like his earlier works, it is a collection of essays (27 this time) with some of them having been previously presented in various publication.

As you have probably guessed from the title, this collection focuses primarily on the various members of his families. Funny tales include examinations of his brother's wedding and sharing the experience of his brother's first child being born. His moth...more

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Mar 22, 2008

Shelly rated it

Shelves: listened-to-on-ipod

The only thing more entertaining than reading one of David Sedaris's (sp;i've always had a hard time with the possessive apostrophe on 's' ending words)books is listening to one. I'm so picky about books on tape/cd/mp3/whatever. But Sedaris is great.
After the whole James Frey controversy I was doing some 'googling' and found some articles where folks were questioning Sedaris's authenticity too. This was sort of reassuring to me because I'm so jealous of his work. Not only is Sedaris fu...more

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Dec 21, 2007

Kelly rated it

Shelves: read-and-reviewed

Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim is a hilarious book about David Sedaris's life and family. It starts off when he was a young boy and he has to give up his Halloween candy to the neighbors. He then stuffed as much candy in his face as possible so he wouldn't have to share it. I knew right after this chapter that I was going to like this book. As you read further in the book you learn all about his family like his brother, Paul, the rooster. Different events occur in this book that tell yo...more

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Sep 26, 2007

Lauren rated it

Recommends it for: people who like humor

I love David Sedaris. I'm actually really glad that I'm reading his works somewhat sequentially. I read Naked first and then this. And yes, I will have to read Me Talk Pretty One Day out of order.

Naked is really about growing up. It's told almost in order of events that happened in his life. Dress Your Family is more about when he's older, and I think the stories are a little less funny and exaggerated, and more poignant. I'd probably have to read it again to say for sure. My favori...more

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Mar 11, 2008

kimberly rated it

Recommends it for: anyone with a dysfunctional family.

Recommended to kimberly by: rachael estrada

Shelves: own, memoir, 2008

I don't think I can even list all my favorite moments of this book - but two stand out the most, merely because of timing. one, his description of his brother's baby. i had the same reaction at the hospital on friday while meeting Grace Trinity Faith Jones (i don't think even that many religious names will save this child). two, his description of the need to touch people, not inappropriately but unwelcome, relates to a long drawn out discussion with my judge regarding sexually battery and mole...more

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Jun 10, 2009

Jackie rated it

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Recommended to Jackie by: numerous coworkers and my niece

Shelves: 5-star, books-i-think-i-should-read, nonfiction, pleasure-reading

I don't ususally do audio books--I generally don't have the attention span to "just" listen to a story. But this week David's been keeping me company while I sort through years worth of former treasures and wishful thinking preparing for an upcoming move this spring. There was something poetic about him telling me about his past while I was sorting through mine. I definitely prefer the live recordings to the somewhat sterile "read by author" stuff, but Sedaris is funny no ...more

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Oct 01, 2007

Adam rated it

Honestly, I tried to like this book. Maybe it's one of those that, at page 100, kicks everything glorious into overdrive, making you gleeful and giddy and full of delight at reading it. Maybe I should have read further and waited longer. But, you see, I only really started to read this because it seemed hip at the time to do so. I'm not too sure that I care enough about maintaining some form of imagined quasi-hipness to make myself sit through the rest of it. There. I'm admitting I didn't ...more

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Nov 29, 2008

David is currently reading it

Another find at the town "Transfer Station" (a.k.a. dump). Sedaris' pieces on NPR have always been fun.

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Jan 16, 2009

Carol rated it

Good, quick read but not as good as Me TAlk Pretty.

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Jan 16, 2009

Scott rated it

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My first encounter with David Sedaris was the audio version of “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” my second was the reading and signing at Davis-Kidd Bookseller in Nashville of “Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim,” and my third was reading the latter. Of the three, hearing Sedaris himself intone his own work was the most enjoyable. His cadence and emphasis (“FIRE ISLAND”) are much the source of his humor.

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Jan 01, 2009

Edward rated it

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Another example of my favorite genre, the "Read by the Author" audio. This couldn't be read by someone else anyway, right? Would someone else perform a Bill Cosby comedy album? And David Sedaris started on NPR, right?

Well, the book was published first, so I suppose it could have been read by anybody. But it wasn't and I almost wish it had been. I'm thinking specifically about his rendering of his brother's voice. It might be dead-on accurate but it came off, at least for m...more

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Oct 05, 2011

Pam rated it

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The very first time I heard the name David Sedaris, was from one of the girls on my hall, freshman year. She said the book she was reading was incredibly funny and offered to lend it to me but I turned it down as I really don’t do pop-memoir, nonfiction types. That stigma stuck with me, along with the name, until this past week. In a super gift basket from my families at school, packed with magazines, snacks and other fun entertainment, was Se...more

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Sep 20, 2011

Annemieke Windt rated it

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Next Sunday I will go to the Carré Theatre in Amsterdam to see David Sedaris. It's a first, before him no writer has ever performed in Carré, which orginally was a circus theatre. A friend asked me to join her and being curious I agreed. Booked the tickets and after paying realized that I never actually read something by Sedaris. So this is preparation.

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Sep 16, 2011

Gwyn rated it

First off, I'm a fan. I joined Audible just to get the This American Life episodes Sedaris stars in, went to see him read at my local theatre, have all his books and consider Me Talk Pretty One Day to be one of the funniest collections of stories on self-loathing and misanthropy ever committed to paper. Suffice to say, I've been looking forward to this book for a fair while...
Almost every story here will make you laugh in some way. And if you're particularly susceptible to black humour, som...moreFirst off, I'm a fan. I joined Audible just to get the This American Life episodes Sedaris stars in, went to see him read at my local theatre, have all his books and consider Me Talk Pretty One Day to be one of the funniest collections of stories on self-loathing and misanthropy ever committed to paper. Suffice to say, I've been looking forward to this book for a fair while...
Almost every story here will make you laugh in some way. And if you're particularly susceptible to black humour, some will make you choke on your food. Here I'm thinking, among others, of the story where he's house hunting in Europe and finds the perfect location for him and his partner- the Anne Frank museum in Amsterdam. His family, as usual, comes in for some of the harshest scrutiny and makes for hilarious subject matter though there's a section on how they have all become more guarded, only too aware that their smallest action could prove to be fodder for a new best-selling novel. Somehow his love for them still shines through.

Still a great book, and I'd give it 4 and a half if goodreads dealt in non-integers, but it's not quite as good as Me Talk Pretty. The observations and anecdotes have not quite gelled together in the same way; they are a little episodic in nature and some stories feel forced in trying to contain the disparate elements within one theme; like he has a whole notebook full of entries and has tried to shoehorn them in where they don't necessarily fit. Something that, from a comedic angle, makes not an iota of difference, but does detract from the book's stylistic whole.

I get the feeling that with a little more rumination some of the stories could have been even funnier still. But then I'd have had to wait longer to read this, and the instant-gratification-seeking now ingrained in me from 4 years living in the US means that's not an option. If you're new to Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day is the place to start, but long-term fans will not be disappointed with Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim.(less)

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Jul 31, 2011

Jennifer rated it

This is my second attempt at Sedaris, and I found myself enjoying it, despite the fact that I usually do not like books that are supposed to be humorous. While, I didn't laugh out loud (which is quite a feat), I was amused by some of the stories, and his writing is easy to read. I liked the fact that the collection was not chronological, or apparently themed, and the only connection between each essay was the writer's voice, and of course, the consistency of characters. I liked the honesty in...more

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Dec 16, 2010

abo rated it

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Una lunga raccolta di racconti autobiografici in cui Sedaris racconta episodi di vita quotidiana, visti attraverso la lente deformante dell’ironia.
Il rapporto con i genitori e le sorelle, esplorando tic e manie di ognuno, il rapporto con il fidanzato Paul, la ricerca di una casa, con tutto lo stress che il trasloco comporta, la gioventù e la maturità.
Con piglio dissacrante e grande sensibilità, Sedaris prende in giro se stesso e la gente che gli sta attorno, in una comica critica dei...more

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Nov 26, 2010

14naomif rated it

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David Sedairs, how i love thee. his book can be read end to end or in no paricular order, if you chose the random order a great story is SIX TO EIGHT BLACK MEN, which is halarious and almost as quotable as mean girls, as the imagined saying goes. i am not going to pretend that the text will embed in you some haunting moral, but what will stay with you forever is the skill in which Sedaris regales the rather ordinary happenings of his life, how he depicts others and most amusingly how he shows hi...more

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Nov 04, 2010

Rebecca Swanger rated it

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First, I have to admit, I didn't actually read this book. I bought the audiobook when I was preparing to make my first solo drive from my parents house to my college in eastern Indiana, a 13.5 hour drive. The copy I bought was read by Sedaris and that's what made it fantastic. For those of you who either don't listen to NPR or just haven't heard him on there, he's just a wonderful a storyteller as he is a writer an is voice is perfect for storytelling and it made the long drive much more enjo...more

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