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Laddar... When You Are Engulfed in Flamesav David Sedaris
  
Top Five Books of 2013 (1,010) Best Satire (81) Books Read in 2013 (333) » 7 till Books Read in 2021 (1,667) Amusing Book Titles (88) Books Read in 2015 (2,030) Books Read in 2008 (83) Phoebe Bridgers (10) Unread books (551) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I read these stories/essays as I ate breakfast before work, and they definitely got my day off to a fun start. (  ) blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |  Amusing, yes, but not up to par with his others. (  ) sashathewild | Jul 2, 2023 | Personal and funny. ( ) zeh | Jun 3, 2023 | Real Rating: 4.25* of five The Publisher Says: It's early autumn 1964. Two straight-A students head off to school, and when only one of them returns home Chesney Yelverton is coaxed from retirement and assigned to what proves to be the most difficult and deadly - case of his career. From the shining notorious East Side, When You Are Engulfed in Flames confirms once again that David Sedaris is a master of mystery and suspense. Or how about... when set on fire, most of us either fumble for our wallets or waste valuable time feeling sorry for ourselves. David Sedaris has studied this phenomenon, and his resulting insights may very well save your life. Author of the national bestsellers Should You Be Attacked By Snakes and If You Are Surrounded by Mean Ghosts, David Sedaris, with When You Are Engulfed in Flames, is clearly at the top of his game. Oh, all right... David Sedaris has written yet another book of essays (his sixth). Subjects include a parasitic worm that once lived in his mother-in-law's leg, an encounter with a dingo, and the recreational use of an external catheter. Also recounted is the buying of a human skeleton and the author's attempt to quit smoking In Tokyo. Master of nothing, at the dead center of his game, Sedaris proves that when you play with matches, you sometimes light the whole pack on fire. THIS BOOK WAS A GIFT FROM MY EX. IT'S GOING TO THE LITTLE FREE LIBRARY NOW. My Review: Very funny guy writes more very funny observational comedy essays. If you like him, you'll love it; if you are irritated and annoyed by his shtik, you won't. Never read his stuff? Start anywhere. They're all much of a muchness. (  ) richardderus | May 23, 2023 | Eh, it just wasn't my style.... But I bet Sedaris would be fun to have a drink with...if he still drank...does that take the sting out of my original sentence? :/ ( ) MrMet | Apr 28, 2023 | PriserPrestigefyllda urval
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.--From publisher description. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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