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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 once more. 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. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.--From publisher description.… (meer)
sweetiegherkin: These two nonfiction books deal with giving up a vice (alcohol and, to a lesser extent, drugs for Burroughs; cigarettes for Sedaris) and both do so with dark humor scattered throughout their memoirs. That being said, Sedaris's work is more funny than serious while the opposite is true for Burroughs's. Also, Sedaris's book is largely short stories/vignettes while Burroughs's follows a more traditional narrative. Both men are homosexual and that plays some factor in their books, although it's not the overarching story and/or theme.… (meer)
Toch zijn het vooral anderen die de show stelen. Buurvrouw Helen bijvoorbeeld, een vuilgebekt opdondertje van in de zeventig met oranjeroze haar (Denk je dat jouw poep beter ruikt dan de mijne? Probeer je me dat soms te vertellen?). Of mevrouw Peacock, de lijvige oppas, die de kinderen haar brede rug laat krabben met een plastic hand aan een dertig centimeter lange stok. En zo zijn er nog wel een paar op te noemen. Laat je niet kennen na het eerste, eerder matige stukje, want wat volgt is bij momenten echt hilarisch. Volledige bespreking op http://wraakvandedodo.blogspot.com/2008/11/david-sedaris-wanneer-je-omringd-bent...( )
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My friend Patsy was telling me a story.
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I'm simply afraid that on taking one between my fingers, I'll somehow snap to and remember, with clarity, just how good a cigarette would taste right now.
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 once more. 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. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.--From publisher description.
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