He talks a lot about his over enthusiastic, jazz loving father, who tries to set his kids up as a jazz combo, to the horror of the young David and his siblings. The book is split into two parts the first focuses mainly on Sedaris’ upbringing in North Carolina. It’s nice to know that someone so successful can have similar worries to me (and many, many more!) David Sedaris is known for his self-deprecating stories and it’s his honesty about his insecurities that I like so much. Like being stuck in the toilet with an unflushable turd – that one had me in stitches! – or being mistaken for a pickpocket on the Métro in Paris. In the book Sedaris observes some odd situations and finds himself in some even stranger predicaments. His distinct, girlish voice is the perfect way to imagine his observations. He’s still humorous, but I’m sure it helps that in my mind I can imagine him speaking his essays word for word. Reading Me Talk Pretty One Day was a completely different experience to listening to Sedaris. He pauses in the right places and emphasises words to create maximum hilarity. It’s not just what he says, it’s how he says it. I like to listen to it when I’m cooking and often annoy my boyfriend with my constant laughing.ĭavid Sedaris on the radio is hilarious. It was the Meet David Sedaris programme on Radio 4 that first brought this funny man to my attention.
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