Naked
Where to buy Naked books online?
- ISBN13: 9780316777735
- Condition: USED – GOOD
- Notes:
Product Description
Welcome to the hilarious, weird, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the mania for memoir on its ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family tree, and his unique worldview-a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son’s nervous tics, to the fantastic amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion; a family tree gathers for a wedding in the face of imminent death. Through it all is Sedaris’s particular voice, lacking doubt one of the freshest in American writing.Amazon.com Review
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 small purgatories.
Buy Cheap Naked Online
Related posts:
After having loved “Take the Canoli” (Sarah Vowell), I thought I would stick with the NPR storytelling genre, and bought this book as it was on the Amazon’s “also bought” list.
Written auto-biographically, Sedaris describes the nightmare of his childhood, as well as the nighmare of a child he must have been to his parents. He describes in detail his childhood obsessive compulsive behaviors, like screaming unexplicably in class, compulsive rocking, listening the same pop tunes hundreds of times, the need to smash his nose up agaisnt window glass when he was in a car, and how he had to count each step on the way home from school (with assorted rituals along the way, like opening doors with his elbows. This was a messed up kid. (or the fiction of a deranged person). I did not find it amusing at all — it was distrubing.
He also talks about his family tree including a father so obsessed with getting his kids to take up golf, that he finds it more vital to keep the leader and his sister at a professional golf event, than to deal with his daughter’s first menstruation. Sick parent. Sick kid.
I place down the book about 1/3 of the way through, when he reveals his alternate sexual inclination. For persons of us who want to judge that such is a choice/inclination of otherwise normal healthy people, this book disturbs that notion. I will share this book with no one — I reflect I will throw it away.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
An annoying disjointed book. I didn’t delight in reading it. The leader jumps from one terrible anecdote to another. How this is humor beats me!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book was absolutely disgusting. I could NOTHING redeeming about his family tree. He is a much too tortured soul to delight in hearing his inner most thoughts! I like to read to escape reality and this book smears my nose in it over and over again!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I only listened to 10 minutes of David Sedaris’ book “Naked” on tape before shutting it off. I don’t find obsessive/compulsive behavior comical, which is what the main character of the first “humorous” essay clearly showed. Sorry, but mental illness isn’t amusing to me. Treatable, yes; amusing, no. Thankfully, I rented this tape from the library, so I didn’t waste money on it. I couldn’t give “0 stars” in this review, or I would have done so.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Wouldn’t ya like to be??
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5