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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris
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A guy walks into a bar.

From here, the story could take many turns. A guy walks into a bar and meets the love of his life. A guy walks into a bar and finds no one else is there. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humour and intelligence and leave you deeply moved.

In Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant), and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered Pygmy. The common thread? Sedaris masterfully turns each episode into a love story: how it feels to be in a relationship where one loves and is loved over many years, what it means to be part of a family, and how it's possible, through all of life's absurdities, to accept oneself.

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Critic Reviews

"A humorist par excellence, Sedaris can make Woody Allen appear ham-tongued, Oscar Wilde a drag" ( Observer)
"The world's finest comic writer" ( Independent)
"David Sedaris is a man who could capture your heart and lift your spirits while reading out the ingredients of a rice cake" ( Observer)
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I love everything David Sedaris does. He is genuinely hilarious. The book is enhanced by being read by the author

Delightful

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I really enjoyed another trip down David's memory lane. He always makes me laugh with his quirky view of the world.

great fun and clever as ever

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A fab collection of amusing essays and annecdotes. Great to dip in and out of.

Very funny

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sedaris stories with the right amount of embarrassment and humility always ensures humour and warmth. all his recounts blur into one long anthology for me so i can not say if this is better or worse than his other works. less glimpses to his family in this one though. they are always my favorite stories particularly with amy or his father so i had to rate it a little lower.

moving, funny and always sincere

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This is my first foray into the printed, autobiographical world of Mr. Sedaris and I don't care what anyone says in their reviews: I REALLY LIKED IT! and I read it two times. It's a lightning quick read.

As with most humour, people will either get this or they won't. This is evident by the reviews. However, even the reviewers that gave quite a low star rating, still had a few good things to say – so, not all doom and gloom.
Also, let's not forget that your own mood determines how funny something actually is at that point in time.

It is worth mentioning that many of the essays in this book are not linked, they are not always about himself and he does jump from character to character a bit (which didn't bother me in the least). This gave me the feeling of someone telling you a true story on the fly, rather than constructing one.
Personally, he ran me through the whole gamut of emotions by going from laugh out loud funny to dark and poignant, even heartbreaking, but always with the overall tone of self deprecation, which he seems to do well.
Mr. Sedaris seems open and honest and exposes his unusual quirks and behaviours on the page with ease, which I find admirable.
Yes, some sections were marginally better than others, but overall I really, really enjoyed the writing and the observations he proffered.

I honestly don't know how anyone could fail to find the colonoscopy story "The Happy Place" or "Rubbish", funny. 10 dollars well spent.
I will be trying a few more of his works, and I won't expect them to be as good, but if they are... BONUS!
Sergiu Pobereznic (Amazon author)

Brilliant

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The perfect gift for all owl-loving diabetics and their friends! Thankyou David Sederis., I"m about to start another. This one came highly recommended, the next ...?

A giggle

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It's funny. A nice book to listen to only made me chuckle almost out load one time. But I am hard to please

Sounds like the rabbit from alice in wonderland

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Thoroughly enjoyable. Quirky, funny, refreshingly different. Worth a second and third listen. I loved it.

Loved it.

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Awesome, dark sense of humour. l laughed out loud on more than one occasion.

The tone david uses throughout maintains interest. The live recordings make it seem like stand up comedy. It will have you in stiches in these parts! If you like satire and black humour.

Funny entertaining book

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David certainly has a unique perspective on life. He tells the kind of subtle, unexpected jokes that have you laugh out loud, a beat too late. Loved this book!

Witty & wonderful

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