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Title: Wigfield : The Can-Do Town That Just May Not by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, Stephen Colbert ISBN: 0-7868-6812-0 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 07 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.36 (25 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Hi-LAR-ious! (Amy Sedaris fans will understand!)
Comment: If you liked Strangers with Candy or Exit 57, you'll love Wigfield!! Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert are comic geniuses who make me laugh like no other writers can. Wigfield is laugh-out-loud material and perfect for a fun read. Buy it-- you won't be sorry!
Rating: 2
Summary: Not the best work of Dinello, Colbert or Sedaris by far.
Comment: Let it be known from the start that I am a Sedaris fan from way back. "The Talent Family", made up of Amy and her brother David, has an esoteric humor that strains against the seams of the mainstream, never quite breaking through, never quite wanting to break through.
I entered the town of Wigfield with abandon, hoping to get caught up in the same obscurely dark humor the writers three made famous in their absurdly funny series "Strangers with Candy" series. While the trio may never recapture the Pantheon of Comedy 'Strangers' was they try very hard with "Wigfield" and fail, miserably.
'Wigfield' is less a book than a collection of morbid and demented characterizations of the townsfolk which inhabit the contaminated topsoil of the books namesake. Loosely structured by a narcoleptic, gluttonous aspiring journalist, the book reflects the sad sack wordsmith's quest for an easy 50,000 words of easy type. One wonders if the same dead-end journey was also endured by Sedaris and her cohorts, as the book seems to be written with a similarly half-hearted effort.
The breadth of the work is a compatible display likened to their fictional protagonist as he pushes his way into the literary world. A display that is disappointing on all the parts of those involved, fictional or otherwise.
The book shakes down like this: There is a town. It is threatened by the destruction of a dam. The main commodity of the town is, rather, was plutonium. The townsfolk, as well as the town, have been classified as a Super Fund project in the works. Many interviews are taken. The townspeople are personalized. A paper-thin morale is drawn in the defense of small-town America as it is attacked progressively by bureaucratic law and Urban sprawl. And in the end...well, in the end you decide for yourself if the book rewards you enough to make it that far.
The cover jacket has several quotes from comedians concerning the tome. Kristin Johnston of "Third Rock from the Sun" fame has this to say for the book: "...I didn't put it down until I did." Unfortunately, for "Wigfield", the best part of the book is indeed putting it down and leaving it there.
Rating: 1
Summary: They phoned this in. Dreadful. Self-indulgent.
Comment: The authors made a quick buck in an afternoon trading on their names. They should be ashamed of themselves. A lazy, unfunny book.
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Title: The Book of Liz by David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris ISBN: 0822218275 Publisher: Dramatist's Play Service Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title:Strangers With Candy - Season One ASIN: B00009B8FW Publisher: Wea Corp Pub. Date: 17 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $24.59 |
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Title:Strangers With Candy - Season Two ASIN: B0000DJYML Publisher: Wea Corp Pub. Date: 04 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $24.59 |
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Title: David Sedaris Live at Carnegie Hall by David Sedaris ISBN: 1586215647 Publisher: Time Warner Audio Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.98 |
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Title: Holidays on Ice : Stories by David Sedaris ISBN: 0316779237 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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