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Bezig met laden... Barrel Fever (origineel 1994; editie 2004)door David Sedaris
Werk-detailsBarrel Fever / Naked door David Sedaris (1994)
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. couldn't even finish the first story, decided to try this again some other time  annodoom | Jun 12, 2013 |  David Sedaris is quite a conundrum for me. I think his spoken material is hilarious. He's my favorite contributor on 'This American Life'. That's why it pains me to dislike this collection so much. The characters are generally unlikable and the stories themselves are so dark I found them hard to get through. Would probably work much better as an audio-book if he read the essays. Maybe I couldn't get his "voice" right in my head. DNF (but willing to try it again from Audible...someday). (  ) zumanity | Apr 30, 2013 | immensely enjoyable (  ) julierh | Apr 7, 2013 | A delightful group of tales. (  ) gbelik | Aug 30, 2012 | I own the print copy, but listened to the audiobook copy thus the reason for conflicting collections. Not sure how I felt about this, people have told me to read Sedaris for years since I enjoy Augusten Burroughs so much. This was okay...a little weird to have fictional stories intermixed with memoir-style accounts. After reading some reviews I found that apparently the audiobook version is significantly different from the print version so that could have been the problem also. Will have to listen to one of his more popular pieces and judge from there. ( ) melancholycat | Apr 3, 2012 | geen recensies | voeg een recensie toe
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0316779423, Paperback)A collection of stories and essays by humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris based upon his own experiences and the hidden perversity that can be found in Anytown, U.S.A. Here are images and blasphemies that nice people don't dare look at--blatantly exposed and told with the clear, casual voice of intimate knowledge. Sedaris' humor is born of compassion and his tales range from the sharing of cheery Christmas letters featuring infanticide, to experiences of the Gay and Famous (Charlton Heston and Elizabeth Dole, for example), to the lives of siblings named Hope, Faith, Charity and Adolph and to alcoholics and chain smokers you can laugh with.(opgehaald bij Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:48:21 -0500) A satirical look at modern culture. In Glen's Homophobia Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2, the author parodies the whining of minority groups, Diary of a Smoker tackles the persecution of smokers, and Santaland Diaries describes the author's experiences as a Macy's elf.… (meer) (samenvatting van een andere editie) |
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