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Naked

By: David Sedaris
Narrated by: David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris
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 Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the current mania for the memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview, a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion. Through it all is Sedaris' unmistakable voice, without a doubt one of the freshest in American writing.©1997 David Sedaris (P)1998, 2001 Time Warner AudioBooks Entertainment & Celebrities Celebrity Funny Comedy Witty

Critic Reviews

"Sidesplitting." ( The New York Times Book Review)
"Genuinely funny, at times hilarious....Makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium....Highly likable and spirited throughout...makes a case for audio as its own special form." ( Publishers Weekly)
"Sedaris is a gifted satirist with an uncanny knack for re-creating dialogue and revealing fantasies....Brutally honest and brilliantly eloquent, Sedaris is positively tonic." ( Booklist)
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joined by his sister amy who i love doing bit roles this is a disapointly small 3 chapter book. and the titular third chapter on being a nudist is also the weakest third of the book.

david has an incredibly gifted wit and insight into his human condition that we can all relate too. poignant he finds comedy in mundane tragedies
this is the second book of his I've listened too and undoubtedly I will enjoy everything else he has done.

another entertaining sedaris book

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I have a few by this author, and he never disappoints. Funny, poignant and never boring.

Really good, as usual!

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What would have made Naked better?

The story telling. It was dark humour I guess but I had read previous reviews that said it was laugh out loud stuff.

What was most disappointing about David Sedaris’s story?

They were just a series of stories that didn't string together in any way. I

How did the narrator detract from the book?

He told the story with the same monotone voice. The female narrator was better.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Naked?

The opening scenes where David portrays himself growing up did him no favours.

Any additional comments?

Not my favourite book. Although I do wonder if some of his other work would be better.

Not that funny

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