Naked

Naked
by David Sedaris

Naked
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Book Summary Information

Author: David Sedaris
Reader: David Sedaris
Reader: Amy Sedaris
Edition: Audio Cassette
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Published: 1997-04-01
ISBN: 1570424810
Publisher: Hachette Audio
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Book Reviews of Naked

Book Review: Decent, but not as funny as I expected
Summary: 3 Stars

I've been told this book was laugh out loud funny. The back cover says "sidesplitting". While there were a few laugh out loud moments, I thought it fell somewhat short of all the great things I'd heard. Some essays were just downright sad, like the one where his mom gets cancer. My favorite was probably "A Plague of Tics" where he develops these "tics" in elementary school. Everytime his teacher would turn her back, he'd get up and lick the light switch. Overall, it was a decent read, but definitely not as funny as I expected it to be.

Summary of Naked

One of the most talked-about, most enjoyed bestsellers of the year, "Naked" offers a collection of hilarious, touching, genre-bending vignettes "guaranteed to make you blow milk out your nose" ("Details").
Hip radio comedy fans and theater folks who belong to the cult of Obie-winning playwright/performer David Sedaris must kill to get this book. These would be fans of the scaldingly snide Sedaris's hilariously described personal misadventures like The Santaland Diaries (a monologue about his work as an elf to a department store Santa) seen off-Broadway in 1997. In a series of similarly textured essays, Sedaris takes us along on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his own childhood, and a dozen more of the world's little purgatories.

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