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Book Review: Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)

This was a very funny book. I enjoyed it a lot. Read it all in one trip, which is always a good thing. It was a little strange at first to adapt to reading his stories instead of hearing him read them on This American Life, but I managed. It tells a lot of stories of his childhood, his attempts at college, his moving to Chicago and New York City, and then his move to France and his adventures there.

Most of it is very funny, but I think the first half, dealing with his family and childhood and things like that, was better. Maybe it was because he was a little more bitter, or maybe it was because he reveals more about his family and childhood friends than he ever does about Hugh, his boyfriend he lives with in France.

But a less-funny David Sedaris is still pretty funny.

It is strange having a much more well-rounded view of his life, though, than I ever got through his radio commentary.