Rose's review
Naked by David Sedaris
So a friend of mine let me borrow this book since I was in some serious need of reading material. Let me just say that it definitely fit whatever reading mood I was in. I could get into this book. I could relate to it in so many different ways.
The book is a collection of stories of happenings through out David's life. And they are all way too utterly amusing to be actual reality - granted, who knows they may be a little tweaked to add amusement to the book but if that's the case, it works.. because it's funny as hell.
What's best about this book is the constant cynicism that not every child grew up with - I'm sad that not everyone did, but some of us get the cynical mothers and that's how we turn out as well. And being a cynic myself I found this relating close to home on many different occasions through out the book.
Usually I'm more into more fantasy based novels but what I enjoyed about this book is just how odd this guys life just happened to be. It's like he kind of lived in h...more
The book is a collection of stories of happenings through out David's life. And they are all way too utterly amusing to be actual reality - granted, who knows they may be a little tweaked to add amusement to the book but if that's the case, it works.. because it's funny as hell.
What's best about this book is the constant cynicism that not every child grew up with - I'm sad that not everyone did, but some of us get the cynical mothers and that's how we turn out as well. And being a cynic myself I found this relating close to home on many different occasions through out the book.
Usually I'm more into more fantasy based novels but what I enjoyed about this book is just how odd this guys life just happened to be. It's like he kind of lived in h...more
