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Title: Naked
by David Sedaris
ISBN: 0-316-77773-0
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $14.95
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Average Customer Rating: 4.22 (300 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: 5 Stars Not Enough!
Comment: This is by far one of the funniest books I've ever read! I'm always on the lookout for books to cheer me up, hardly finding them, but this one is absolute classic. Virtually every essay in this collection cracked me up -- and not just once, but repeatedly! Truly THIS is a funny book. A laugh-fest! If you love to laugh -- or need to laugh -- as we all do -- don't miss it! Also recommended: THE LOSERS CLUB by Richard Perez, [email protected] by Tom Grimes

Rating: 5
Summary: CYNICAL, EXPLICIT AND OUTRAGEOUSLY HILARIOUS!
Comment: Sedaris is a satirist with a tongue-in-cheek approach to just about all life's experiences. In this collection of seventeen autobiographical essays, the author takes us through a wild ride of unbelievable escapades and events in his life. From his compulsive disorders through a series of jobs, hitchhiking ventures, friendship with a prostitute, to a jaunt in a nudist camp, Sadaris tells it all.

If you prefer a dry, refined literary experience, this book is going to shock the socks off you! It is a unique educational experience, but definitely not in any academic sense. This book is pure light-hearted reading, with a unique style of humour and wit that makes for straight forward, insanely hilarious reading. "Naked" is bound to produce a chuckle or two from even the most serious, staunch, intellectual reader. Read it, just for the fun of it.... because life is short and laughing is good for you!

Rating: 5
Summary: Disturbingly Honest
Comment: I had never heard of David Sedaris until a couple months back when a friend handed me her copy of this book and urged, "You have to read this!"

Not being one for intense reading experiences, I was skeptical that I'd even make it beyond the first chapter. But because I favor sarcasm and cynicism above all else, this book appealed to me. The author's ability to paint such vivid portraits of everyone, from the merest acquaintance to the closest family member, is what pulled me in.

Although this book is a collection of short essays, it does tell a story of a man riding the wave on which his neurotic tendencies take him. Sedaris displays a remarkable ability to view himself and the people around him in a harsh but honest light. If only more of us could be as observant of the world in which we live.

Cynical as the author professes to be, I couldn't help but read a significant amount of hope in between the lines. The chapter in which he discusses his mother's inoperable cancer (as well as his entire family's reaction to it) is told against the backdrop of his sister's wedding. Perhaps I'm overanalyzing here, but I find it difficult to believe that someone who is completely cynical would use such a celebratory occasion as the backdrop to this story.

I can't help but wonder what it must be like to live with a David Sedaris in your life. Were it me, would I be self conscious of every thing I said and every move I made for fear that it would wind up the subject of yet another essay on human fallibility?

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