Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Anyone that has read NAKED and BARREL FEVER, or heard David Sedaris language live or on the radio will tell you that a new collection from him is cause for jubilation. His recent go to Paris from New York inspired these hilarious new pieces, including ‘Me Talk Pretty One Day’, about his attempts to learn French from a sadistic teacher who declares that ‘every day spent with you is like having a caesarean section’. His family tree is another inspiration. ‘You Can’t Kill the Rooster’ is a portrait of his brother, who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals open in ludicrous towers of food and cashiers with six-inch fingernails. Hilarious, sharply perceptive and surpassing all national boundaries of humour, ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY is a compelling introduction or a very welcome return to David Sedaris – compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne – who has taken America and Europe by storm.Amazon.com Review
David Sedaris became a star autobiographer on public radio, onstage in New York, and on bestseller lists, mostly on the might of “SantaLand Diaries,” a scathing, hilarious account of his stint as a Christmas elf at Macy’s. (It’s in two separate collections, both worth owning, Barrel Fever and the Christmas-themed Holidays on Ice.) Sedaris’s caustic gift has not deserted him in his fourth book, which mines poignant comedy from his peculiar childhood in North Carolina, his bizarre career path, and his go with his lover to France. Though his anarchic inclination to digress is his glory, Sedaris does have a theme in these reminiscences: the inability of humans to communicate. The title is his rendition in transliterated English of how he and his fellow students of French in Paris mangle the Gallic language. In the essay “Jesus Shaves,” he and his classmates from many nations try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim. “It is a party for the small boy of God,” says one. “Then he be die one day on two… morsels of… lumber,” says another. Sedaris muses on the disputes between his Protestant mother and his father, a Greek Orthodox guy whose Easter fell on a different day. Additional essays explicate his deep kinship with his eccentric mom and absurd alienation from his IBM-exec dad: “To me, the greatest mystery of science continues to be that a man could father six children who shared absolutely none of his interests.”
Every glimpse we get of Sedaris’s family tree and acquaintances delivers laughs and insights. He thwarts his North Carolina speech therapist (“for whom the word pen had two syllables”) by cleverly avoiding all words with s sounds, which reveal the lisp she sought to right. His midget guitar teacher, Mister Mancini, is unaware that Sedaris doesn’t share his obsession with breasts, and sings “Light My Fire” all incorrect–”as if he were a Webelo scout demanding a match.” As a remarkably unqualified teacher at the Art Institute of Chicago, Sedaris had his class watch soap operas and assign “guessays” on what would take place in the next day’s episode.
It all adds up to the most distinctively skewed autobiography since Spalding Gray’s Swimming to Cambodia. The only possible reason not to read this book is if you’d rather hear the leader’s intrinsically amusing language voice narrating his tale. In that case, get Me Talk Pretty One Day on audio. –Tim Appelo
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A huge zero rating. I don’t want to give it a star but you require the meadow to be place in! If you want the f word and the mf word popping up and arresting you in the face unexpectedly, and really unnecessary,then you should buy this book. I don’t delight in it and won’t end reading it!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Read three fourths of book and chunked it. I would be embaressed to give it away. Maybe 5 amusing pages.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Let me start by adage I am a bibliophile and will sometimes buy a book just for the look of it. I finished up throwing the book away rather than offer it to any one else. If I could have agreed this book something less than one star I would have agreed it a negative fifteen (-15). I establish this book yucky, crass and inappropriate. I’ve read books with strong language in them, but never like this one that has filthy language just for the sake of using filthy language. I wouldn’t have this book in my home and am sorry that I read the whole thing, but it was a private book club choice. As it turned out no one else finished reading it. DON’T BUY, READ or OWN THIS BOOK!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is the first book by David Sedaris I have ever read and it will likely be the last. He writes well. The problem is I didn’t find a lot of his writing particularly amusing. Perhaps my expectations were set a small too high by the glowing reviews I had read, but I kept expecting to find myself rolling on the floor with laughter. That just didn’t take place.
I sensed the leader regularly thought he was writing something amusing, but that only made it worse. Oh sure, Sedaris got a chuckle out of me here and there – as I said, he writes well. But the peals of laughter never came. And what was with the homosexual references, interludes, and otherwise failed humor? At times it seemed like Sedaris was trying to laugh at himself, at additional times it seemed like he expected everybody to see the humor inherent in his sexual preferences. In most cases, I establish the spectacle to be out of place. That is, Sedaris’ perverse sexuality usually fit into his narrative like a road kill fits on a stretch of two-lane blacktop. Sure, you expect to find one now and then, but it doesn’t make the trip any more pleasant.
This isn’t autobiographical humor along the lines of Mark Twain, or Jean Guide, or Patrick F. McManus. It just doesn’t work the same way as any of the examples I’ve just agreed. In fact, as I see it, Sedaris’ humor usually doesn’t work – not for me, at least.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I did not laugh. The guy is not appealing. The writing is amateurish dime store bookish. The humor is high school level.
I really liked the title. Thats all.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5