Holidays on Ice: Stories
by David Sedaris
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Author: David SedarisEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 1997-10-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
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Book Review: One Gaffe on Ice...
Summary: 4 Stars
Okay, so there's no way anyone can say this author doesn't possess that gusty type of humor. No way! SantaLand Diaries, I remembered being the reason Sedaris's name stayed penned in my memory as `that gusty humorous author.'
But I stopped cold with Season's Greetings... thank God it wasn't as long as SantaLand... which made it difficult to laugh getting through the Christmas Whore. Season's Greeting literally made me sick to my stomach. Ridiculing the Vietnamese girl and her language, yet leaving a child in her care, the dryer, the legal scuffle... My God! ...Why was this story even included!?! But least I stop and digress as enough people have already pronounced their displeasure here...
To conclude, struggling as I did getting through the whore to actually get back to the chuckle bubbles that kept erupting in SantaLand, I eventually recognized what makes Sedaris an attention grabbing name.
Let's see: "...industrial-strength lasagna,"... "pea-sized conscience"... "...wrong-headed and pointless" ... "disposable boats, ultrasuede basketballs..." --these unsullied phrases are littered throughout the book. As noted above, I am finicky and draw lines quickly where it concerns children, but Front Row Center... I cried laughing! I mean come on now, comparing bad entertainment to treating cancer early, that's just over the top brilliant humor... and a bit clique I must add.
Saved for the stories pulled from the dark side of someone's traumatizing suffering, the way Sedaris lays humor on paper otherwise is among the cleverest in this time!
Summary of Holidays on Ice: Stories
A new holiday classic--six of the most profound Christmas stories by the author of the bestselling "Naked" and "Barrel Fever"--is now in a paperback edition perfect for stocking stuffing.Holidays on Ice is a collection of three previously published stories matched with three newer ones, all, of course, on a Christmas theme. David Sedaris's darkly playful humor is another common thread through the book, worming its way through "Seasons Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!" a chipper suburban Christmas letter that spirals dizzily out of control, and "Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol," a vicious theatrical review of children's Christmas pageants. As always, Sedaris's best work is his sharply observed nonfiction, notably in "Dinah, the Christmas Whore," the tale of a memorable Christmas during which the young Sedaris learns to see his family in a new light. Worth the price of the book alone is the hilarious "SantaLand Diaries," Sedaris's chronicle of his time working 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. Along the way, he paints a funny and sad portrait of the way the countless parents who pass through SantaLand are too busy creating an Experience to really pay attention to their children. In a sly way, it carries a holiday message all its own. Read it aloud to the adults after the kids have gone to bed. --Ali Davis
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