false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165389021m/4141.jpg 4141 3 Star radio storyteller David Sedaris presents his collected works in one audio box set. The longest (at five hours) is his latest, <I>Me Talk Pretty One Day</I>, which contains two live performances from San Francisco. Welcome to a world where dogs outrank children, guitars have breasts, and Sedaris's fellow language-class students try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim in their fledgling French (translated into English): "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 is hilarious, and his Billie Holiday impression is amazing. <p> The three-hour, Christmas-themed <I>Holidays on Ice</I> is the gem of the collection. It has his greatest hit, "SantaLand Diaries," a chronicle of his stint as an elf at Macy's, covering everything from the preliminary group lectures ("You are not a dancer. If you were a real dancer you wouldn't be here. You're an elf and you're going to wear panties like an elf.") to the perils of inter-elf flirtation. Other hits feature the crazed newsletter "Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!" and the prostitute coworker his sister brought home one Yuletide, giving "the phrase 'ho, ho, ho' whole different meaning." <I>Barrel Fever</I> contains the fulminatingly funny "Glen's Homophobia Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2" and "Parade," discussing the narrator's perhaps not fully plausible gay relationships with Bruce Springsteen, Mike Tyson, and Peter Jennings. <I>Naked</I> describes his adventures in a nudist colony, but his family tales are, as ever, nonpareil. 2302435 2000 The David Sedaris Box Set total:555|5:409|4:117|3:26|2:3|1:2| 555 2589 661 50 5 0 false false Fri Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 13:52:26 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 12:19:49 -0700 2009 1 Barrel Fever, Holidays on Ice, Naked, and Me Talk Pretty One Day.

Even if you have read any of Sedaris's work, I would highly suggest listening to the audio of him reading it. There is no substitute for listening to the inflection he g...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Aug 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 09:19:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 09:24:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 26 16:51:33 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 28 08:21:29 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Sep 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 15 21:03:34 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 16:53:13 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Feb 17 20:51:22 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 18 21:17:16 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Mar 22 20:08:22 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 22 20:11:04 -0700 2007
Listening to David Sedaris is exponentially better than the already goddamned hilarious experience of reading him. That voice. That phrasing. That delivery. It's everything that's good about radio and the oral tradition, and it reminds of how Sedaris attained populari...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 25 05:05:38 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 25 05:05:38 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sun Sep 13 22:16:00 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 13 22:16:22 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Nov 22 13:25:24 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 22 13:25:49 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Dec 15 22:45:32 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 15 22:52:54 -0800 2007
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