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David Sedaris
- Live for Your Listening Pleasure
- Narrated by: David Sedaris
- Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
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Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the current mania for the memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview, a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable.
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For nearly four decades, David Sedaris has faithfully kept a diary in which he records his thoughts and observations on the odd and funny events he witnesses. Anyone who has attended a live Sedaris event knows that his diary readings are often among the most joyful parts of the evening. But never before have they been available in print. Now, in Theft by Finding, Sedaris brings us his favorite entries. From deeply poignant to laugh-out-loud funny, these selections reveal with new intimacy a man longtime fans only think they know.
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Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him all over again. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine.
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Excellent, as always
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Before Liz Lemon, before Weekend Update, before Sarah Palin, Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: A recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both these dreams come true. At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live. Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've always suspected: You're no one until someone calls you bossy.
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Not for my generation
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For fans of Tina Fey and David Sedaris - Internet star Jenny Lawson, aka The Bloggess, makes her literary debut. Jenny Lawson realized that the most mortifying moments of our lives - the ones we'd like to pretend never happened - are in fact the ones that define us. In Let's Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson takes readers on a hilarious journey recalling her bizarre upbringing in rural Texas, her devastatingly awkward high school years, and her relationship with her long-suffering husband, Victor.
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I gave it as much as I could....
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Fraud
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The wry and the heartfelt join in David Rakoff's prose to resurrect that most neglected of literary virtues: wit. As he finds himself in all the far-flung hinterlands of our culture, this fish out of water winds up satirizing himself more than his subject matter, to hilarious effect.
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OMG Laugh Out Loud
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Publisher's Summary
Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado
"Author, Author"
Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City
"Innocence abroad"
Durham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, North Carolina
"Laugh, Kookaburra"
Royce Hall, UCLA in Los Angeles, California
Diary entries
Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia
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- Dennis
- 12-01-09
Good but short
This feels rushed out in time for Christmas. The five stories aren't very long especially considering one of them is just random snippets from his diary. I wished the publisher had waited unitl he had a whole book. That said, listening to Sedaris live adds a lot to the stories.
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- Lucy's Mom
- 12-07-09
I Wish There Was More
I love David Sedaris, I have several of his books and I love his wry, dry sense of humor. I always enjoy hearing him read and I think, in this case, he seemed to be enjoying himself. I thought it was too short and not really price appropriate. But I laughed and enjoyed what was there.
14 people found this helpful
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- SHEILA
- 11-22-09
Love him !!
Ahhhhh, it feels so good to laugh that much. I loved it. His live readings are always so special, and that's what all of these are. I just wish it were about 10 times longer !!!! Such a tease you are, David. Be assured he has many other books, every one of which are great. He would be a cool friend to have....always laughing.
11 people found this helpful
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- peter
- 05-14-10
absolutely fabulously funny
I blindly would buy antyhing of this author
9 people found this helpful
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- Kelley
- 12-12-09
Overpriced and Undergood
You'd have to be a HUGE David Sedaris fan to be happy with this purchase.
But wait a minute - that's wrong. Being a HUGE David Sedaris fan is what made me hate this purchase. Because I've already heard/read everything in it on This American Life or in the New Yorker. And I've listened to his great stuff often enough to know that this is all very much his B game.
So only buy this if you don't like David Sedaris at all.
Or wait til Audible comes to its senses and sells it for $4.95. It has a pleasure content similar to that of a Mocha Grande so I think that price is fair.
But 14 bucks is just stupid.
41 people found this helpful
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- e.good
- 12-15-09
Use your extra credit here.
I was left with an extra credit and used it on this short collection of stories by Sedaris -- I laughed all the way through and my only complaint was that I wish it hadn't ended so soon.
Sedaris is one of the most intelligent and sly humorists out there, and is best appreciated when he's reading his own material.
Recommended.
7 people found this helpful
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- Kindle Customer
- 01-07-10
suprised
not as good as the others books, a little too pricey
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- Laura Saunders
- 05-26-17
Lol over and over and over!
Listening to this while driving may be dangerous as you laugh, snort and try to keep the car between the lines.
2 people found this helpful
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- BRB
- 09-11-10
Disappointing
My fault. I wasn't paying attention. I just saw "unabridged" and the price ($14.98) and thought it would be more than one hour and 15 minutes. And this was to download it onto my OWN CDs. I feel ripped off, but have learned a $14.98 lesson.
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- Solonica
- 03-19-12
Snaughter inducing (snorting+laughter)
DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS AUDIO BOOK IN PUBLIC.
I laughed so hard that I snorted and almost wet my pants.
You have been warned.
3 people found this helpful
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- Annette Curtain
- 12-24-12
No chair by the fire is complete without it!
Top up the log burner, pour yourself a nice glass of wine, close the curtains to keep the world out, wrap a nice blanket round your shoulders and pull up your favourite armchair. If you're still reading this review, you're gonna love listening to this audiobook!
David Sedaris is a master, not only of word selection, but also of putting them in the perfect order! His tales and diary entries are delivered in a deliberate, precise, gentle tone but evoke the whole spectrum of emotions from aching belly-laughs to soul-searching reflections.
He phrases things in a thought-provoking way and has that fantastic skill of dusting-off the mundane and revealing hidden depths everywhere he explores, but in SUCH a funny way.
Listening to David Sedaris tell a story is always a real treat, and this audiobook is no exception.
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- MD
- 05-17-18
Bit short
I’m familiar with the legend Sedaris through his printed books, so hearing his voice for the first time was entertaining. He’s noted that he can be mistaken for a woman on the phone. Actually he sounds like a slightly slowed-down Porky Pig. A great raconteur and some very funny moments - just disappointingly brief for the moolah.