Bare Essentials Review

I bought this book for my wife for Christmas and then had to sit and be jealous when she giggled, giggled , snorted and roared her way through this book. When she finished the book and gave it to me to read, I now knew what she was laughing at. Sedaris' antics with his dysfunctional Greek-American family are guaranteed to make you laugh. I made the mistake of reading this book on the train and sometimes it made me laugh. Chapters on "II," hitchhiking home from college with his paraplegic…

David Sedaris has a unique, inimitable voice - caustic, testy and harsh - it is all his own and that voice is perfectly demonstrated in The Naked , a collection of humorous essays that seem to bring together the grotesque characters of Flannery O'Conner's stories through the jaded lens of Mark Twain's finest travelogue. Here are a few highlights that make Naked a must-read: 1. Out With Your Ya-Ya - A ruthless profile of his testy grandmother and the power she held over the household when she…

I stood naked on my shelf for at least a year before I decided to read it. I have a bad habit of not reading books after I've bought them, so that shouldn't surprise me. As a memoir, The Nude is an incredibly good collection of autobiographical essays. As you make your way through Naked, you just don't believe in the dysfunctional Sedaris family. Everyone around them claims they have some kind of dysfunctional family, but Sedaris really wins. From the author's childhood of tics and…