Me Talk Pretty One Day
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Sedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as "Me Talk Pretty One Day", about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration—"You Cant Kill the Rooster" is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.
Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris is one of America's best-loved authors, and his biting essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he's ever written. (At last, someone even meaner than the French!) The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had a love child.
“If you’re looking for some comic relief, look no further than David Sedaris.” ―NPR
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DNF at 54%. I couldn't continue torturing myself.. if the book hasn't gripped me in the first 50% then the last 50 won't make a difference. The writing was just pompous and irritating, the writer seems to blame his father for his own mistakes rather than introspecting and realising he was on the wrong. Maybe this isn't the type of writing for me, I honestly went into this book thinking I would be wildly humoured and would laugh all the way only to be extremely disappointed.
Description
Sedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as "Me Talk Pretty One Day", about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration—"You Cant Kill the Rooster" is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails.
Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris is one of America's best-loved authors, and his biting essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he's ever written. (At last, someone even meaner than the French!) The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had a love child.
“If you’re looking for some comic relief, look no further than David Sedaris.” ―NPR
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DNF at 54%. I couldn't continue torturing myself.. if the book hasn't gripped me in the first 50% then the last 50 won't make a difference. The writing was just pompous and irritating, the writer seems to blame his father for his own mistakes rather than introspecting and realising he was on the wrong. Maybe this isn't the type of writing for me, I honestly went into this book thinking I would be wildly humoured and would laugh all the way only to be extremely disappointed.