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Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris. Little Brown & Co.: 2001 (paperback). ISBN: 0316776963. 288 pages.
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Has your group gotten stuck in a rut, reading the deepest, darkest, and most
emotionally demanding books? Well, it's time to climb out of your funk and have some laughs, just to change the pace. David
Sedaris is the perfect person to help you lighten up because he is probably one of the most amusing human beings to walk
the planet in our lifetime. In this comical feast of essays, Sedaris brings his personal history to life, leaving no psyche
unturned (including his own) in his attempts to make sense of the random and ridiculous events that comprise our allegedly
purposeful existence. Sedaris starts off with tales of his North Carolina childhood, during which he wages mostly successful
campaigns against his over-eager speech therapist, midget guitar teacher, and musically obsessed father. As a young adult,
Sedaris finds work as a performance artist, bringing a decided lack of talent and lust for amphetamines to his career. In
later stories, we find Sedaris teaching a writing class using One Life to Live as an inspirational model, moving to
France and turning into a scary "man-child" who can speak only in nouns, and attending a soccer match in which men play
against a team of wily cows. Sedaris is the best kind of humorist. He's outrageously non-stop fun to read, but he also
manages to make a lot of interesting observations on some of the most inevitable human needs and desires, making something
bigger and more important out of his uncanny ability to see the absurd in most situations.
As seen on Ellen on Seven.
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