In one of his earlier books he was talking about people having dead animals in their freezer, and this was not steaks.

I especially loved the one about his aspirations to wealth via his obscenely wealthy aunt, and his hilarious house-cleaning escapade that quickly ends up turning sexual (against his expectations). Will she turn away, as my father predicts, or might she remember all the nights she awoke to discover him: this slob, this lump, this silly drooling toy asleep at her feet. In the face of increasing commercial success, the edge that was conferred by his being poor became harder to maintain. Sedaris is so great at showing that most of our love for each other doesn’t lie in our similarities, but in the strength of our shared history and our sheer will to maintain the relationship. Anyway, I keep telling him we don’t live in Amsterdam so he doesn’t have anything to worry about, but I think it’s pretty obvious by the look on his face that he doesn’t believe me .

I was working in a cafeteria then but still honored a once-a-week babysitting job I'd held since junior high. A perfect description of the struggle of being gay and finding identity in a sadly still intolerant and homophobic world too. I've listened to him enough now that I can not only read his work in his voice, but also accurately guess at the necessary inflection in new material. Walking around the neighborhood while thinking about the pain in my hip and how at 38 years old I’m afraid I’m going to have to have a fucking hip replacement is no way to appreciate him.

I did nothing with it for more than a year until I decided I should listen to it while going for walks around my neighborhood. These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc. Sedaris talks about growing up, Santa Claus, drowning a mouse, a little girl that stole an eraser from him and so much more.I could seriously kick myself for not only not trying audiobooks before this Fall, but also for not thinking of collections like these as something that would fit into my short commute time perfectly. The children despised me, but there was a familiarity, almost a comfort, in their hatred, and so their parents kept me on. David Sedaris is the author of eleven previous books, including, most recently, The Best of Me , Calypso, and Theft by Finding. Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation -- so there. Frozen dinners were often eaten exactly as sold, the Salisbury steak amounting to a stickless meat Popsicle.

I thought of listening to Spalding Gray because he gives one man monologues, but the narrator of Monster in a Box had an irritating voice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. It's not that I don't like her - far from it - I just worry that, without a regular job and the proper linoleum, she'll fall through a crack and disappear to a place where we can't find her. When my sisters and I eventually left home, it seemed like a natural progression–young adults shifting from one environment to another. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.His world is alive with obscure desires and hidden motives -- a world where forgiveness is automatic and an argument can be the highest form of love. He's not very PC and sometimes he says things that are actually pretty offensive, but it helps that he doesn't spare himself when unleashing his cruel wit. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you.

After reading Calypso, it was recommended to me by several friends here on Goodreads that I must absolutely listen to David Sedaris read his own stories. I laugh my ass off at the bottom-feeder personalities and occasional bargain basement morals herein, but some people will wring their hands and cry, "Oh how awful!And then he'd turn around and say, "You wouldn't believe how much she drinks, it's like watching an alcoholic balloon try to self-inflate. I would clear the table and Hugh would do the dishes, neither of us speaking and both of us wondering if this just might be the one to do it.