Me Talk Pretty One Day Study Guide consists of approx. 61 pages of summaries and analysis on Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris.
This study guide includes the following Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.
This book of essays about life experience is very entertaining, and not at all what I had expected. Since I'm interested in language, I especially liked the ones about his speech therapy as a child, and the ones about living in France and trying to learn French. However, there are chuckles all through the book. I recommend it for a light read and good humor. This man has a really droll sense of humor.
Funny and just what the doctor ordered. I needed something light to distract me from the cognitive dissonance I was experiencing at the time. I will leave it at that.
"Her temperament was not based on a series of good and bad days but, rather, good and bad moments." (of his french teacher, 170)
"In trying to communicate why and Academy Award-winning actress [Jodie Foster] might walk down the beach carrying a plastic bag full of dog feces, I got the sort of lump in my throat that other people might get while singing their national anthem. It was the pride one can feel only when, far from home and surrounded by a captive audience, you are called upon to explain what is undoubtedly the single greatest thing about your country." (218)
Great book...he is a great writer that has such a dry twisted humor, you find yourself laugh at the strangest things...laughed almost through the whole book!
I usually love his stuff, but I found this a little bit below his usual standard. The cutting wit wasn't there in its usual dose. Enjoyable, just not his best.