I have just recently become a fan of his. I've heard some of his radio stuff, and I just read "Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim". Fucking hilarious.




There were parts of that book that I literally got into laughing fits laying in bed reading, where I had tears streaming down my face from laughing. I couldn't stop for 15 minutes. I don't think I've ever laughed so hard from just reading something before.

That, plus when you read his stuff, you have to imagine his voice doing the talking which makes it even funnier.

I want to get all his previous books now as well.

minneapolisgenius said:

YOU HAVE BAD TASTE IN BOOKS! THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT YOU CAN DO...

Me Talk Pretty One Day comes highly recommended.

2the9s said:

I think "Barrel Fever" is hilarious and "Naked" is simply transcendent - I can kinda take or leave his last two books...I pray at the alter of his sister, however.

minneapolisgenius said:

He's great - a friend gave me audio tapes of Sedaris first couple books that he recorded himself. I haven't seen him in person - but I hear he's very entertaining.

starkitty said:

i've read an excerpt from that book and i loved-ded it. next time i'm at the bookstore i need to get a copy of it.

Anxiety said:

Love David. Just passed on Barrel Fever to My Sis-in-Law.

But Amy makes me damp as a cellar down there ...all mildewy. But I suppose my avatar tells the whole story! ANd wat is so great about her is that you can't call her a comedian or an actress or anything like that. Art and Performance for art and performance sake. Gotta love that!

Awaiting for the movie...can not come too soon.

minneapolisgenius said:

If you do...be sure to get the audio books as companions they are hilarious. Amy does their brother "The Rooster".

Definitely get the first two.

starkitty said:

AND...

Naked

Barrel Fever

I read Barrel Fever this spring and it was great.

I have them all and have read them all and LOOOOOVE them all. For me, "Me Talk Pretty One Day" is the best, with "Naked" a close second. I thought the new one was excellent but I didn't pee on myself laughing like I did with the other ones.

This is going to strike some of you as odd, but I actually use the story "Big Boy" from "Me Talk Pretty" with my creative writing students when we start our personal narrative unit. For those of you that know the story, it's not really a conventional choice...kinda risky, actually. But as you can imagine, the high school kids LOVE it!!!!

Keith/Kacey

2the9s said:

btw...that was a joke that was going somewhere before I had to leave in a hurry. But I can't for the life of me remember what it was.

2the9s said:

You're as foolish as you are weak, it seems!

HobbesLeCute said:

I doubt that very much.

Handclapsfingasnapz said:

Me too.

superspaceboy said:

I was wondering why he called his brother the "rooster". I guess I'll have to get the other books to find out.

2the9s said:

he's brilliant! we saw him a few months ago, and he was hilarious. (figures, he's from NC, ya know! )

haven't read the new book yet, but i'm sure it'll be great!

superspaceboy said:

Wh-wh-WHAAAAAT??!!

A Strangers with Candy movie?????

Oh, Ramone....

own every book and every audio book too, seen him live, love him. genius, genius, genius writer and someone that inspires me stylistically in my writing quite a bit

minneapolisgenius said:

he talks about it in "naked" i think. great piece called "you can't kill the rooster"... and paul (the rooster) started calling himself that

theblueangel said:

I know good times...

It's a Prequel. She is just getting out of the slammer...and that means that Daddy will be alive...thank goodness! They just wrapped up the school filming. If you lived in the NY/NJ area you could have been an extra.

i read Naked a few years ago and loved it but i never read any other books of his.

cborgman said:

I'll have to get that one next.

His brother just sounds like such a dick!

"I aint getting dressed up to eat no fish-assed tasting chicken!"

minneapolisgenius said:

loved that part... him being in his underwear eating the hammered and previously frozen trash chicken.

actually, as you read the earlier stuff, you will see that paul is not so much a dick, as just an insane macho gangsta-rap lovin hick. he's probably my favorite of the siblings

cborgman said:

"an insane macho gangsta-rap lovin hick..."

That sounds like a dick to me.