Journal Entry 1 by janaqq from Austin, Texas USA on Tuesday, August 13, 2002

Great, Wonderful, laugh out loud. 

Journal Entry 2 by janaqq from Austin, Texas USA on Thursday, October 10, 2002

I gave this book to a friend of mine who moved to Lame Deer, MT. Hopefully it will find itself in the wild soon.
I can't wait to read another Sedaris book soon!! 

Journal Entry 3 by janaqq from Austin, Texas USA on Saturday, September 06, 2003

This book will now be a book ray, I just have to share this book. I would like to see it be an ongoing RABCK when it makes it to its last destination, possibly Germany.

When you receive the book journal it and try to read it within 4-5 weeks. This book is a quick and fun read. When you finish reading the book pm the next person in line and send it off. Thanks for joining. I hope everyone gets a kick out of Sedaris.

Members:

pchemphd- Florida
Maurean- Florida
Weeblet- Virginia
illinicheme- Ca.
Jass330 WA
Maddymonkey IL (thanks for sending to Portugal)
Letra Lisbon Portugal
Zyana Portugal
IrasCignavajo Germany
Ench Germany 

Journal Entry 4 by pchemphd from Deland, Florida USA on Tuesday, September 16, 2003

This came in the mail yesterday. Having woken up at 3 this morning, and not being able to go back to sleep, I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book. Awesome book! Laugh out loud funny! Thanks so much for sending it my way. 

Journal Entry 5 by pchemphd from Deland, Florida USA on Sunday, September 21, 2003

I laughed out loud. This is a wonderful book. It's not like anything else I have ever read.

I mailed this out to Maurean yesterday. I hope she enjoys it just as much!

Thanks! 

Journal Entry 6 by Maurean from Atlantic Beach, Florida USA on Tuesday, September 23, 2003

Just got this out of my mailbox a few moments ago. Have heard wonderful things about this book, so I am looking forward to the read. Will journal again as soon as I finish.

(Thanks to janaqq and pchemphd for getting it to me!) 

Journal Entry 7 by Maurean from Atlantic Beach, Florida USA on Thursday, September 25, 2003

Hmmm....
After reading so many wonderful reviews, and hearing many teriffic recommendations, I could hardly wait to get a chance to read this.

Eh.

Many passages elicited a smile, and a few made me chuckle, but laugh-out loud? Nope. Sorry. Didn't happen. I did get a giggle from his French classes in Paris,and I even found his memories of Melina heart-warming. I don't know...maybe my funny-bone is broken? I just wasn't overly impressed.
So....I'm sending this off to Weeblet tommorrow (9/26), in the hopes that she and those that follow enjoy it more than I.  

Journal Entry 8 by weeblet from Jacksonville, Florida USA on Thursday, October 02, 2003

got it! i have heard tons of good things about this book, and can't wait to start it. i'll begin tomorrow <: 

Journal Entry 9 by weeblet from Jacksonville, Florida USA on Monday, October 06, 2003

Journal Entry 10 by weeblet at on Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Released on Wednesday, October 08, 2003 at Bookcrosser's home in postal release, postal release USA. 

Journal Entry 11 by illinicheme from Novato, California USA on Tuesday, October 14, 2003

Arrived safely in California today. I just got hit by three rings at once, but I should still get to this in a timely fashion. Looking forward to finally reading it! 

Journal Entry 12 by illinicheme from Novato, California USA on Tuesday, October 21, 2003

This was a very enjoyable read, though it seems to have suffered a little bit from overhype. As with any collection of short, stand-alone pieces, some hit the mark, some were way off, and most were somewhere in between. Overall, I thought Deux was a much stronger section than One. Although I did get a few laughs from the first half, I felt that he was trying too hard. (I enjoy crudeness as much as the next person, and am not offended by it, but in some of the pieces I felt that he wasn't using it effectively. It seemed to be more of "hmmm....well, if I just use a cuss word, that'll make it funny!")

Overall a worthwhile and fairly quick read. My personal favorites included Go Carolina, 21 Down, and all of the pieces about French class.

This is on its way to Jas330 as of this morning. Thanks for starting this bookray janaqq! 

Journal Entry 13 by Jas330 from Lakewood, Washington USA on Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Got this in the mail today, and it don't remember the fact that is was coming. I have a bunch (like 6) of bookrings here right now, so it's gonna be a while. Sorry! :-)  

Journal Entry 14 by Jas330 from Lakewood, Washington USA on Wednesday, December 10, 2003

I'm done. :-)
I really enjoyed this book. I'm not really sure what I was expecting, I don't every really remember reading about what it was about, just hearing that it was good.
Anyways -- I really enjoyed it an will be passing on to Maddymonkey sometime within the next week.  

Journal Entry 15 by maddymonkey from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Tuesday, January 06, 2004

Arrived in the post yesterday. Since I'm currently reading a book of essays and this is similar, I think I'll start on it immediately, one piece at a time. 

Journal Entry 16 by maddymonkey from Minneapolis, Minnesota USA on Friday, January 23, 2004

I found Part One really dreary. It seemed Sedaris wanted me to commiserate with him about family and childhood -- ugh! -- and it wasn't amusing enough to counterbalance that.

Part Deux, however, is very clever, insightful, funny writing. Loved the comparison of his childhood to Hugh's -- how the verbs were the same, but Hugh had him beat at nouns and objects. Loved the lamentation of trying to explain the outward trappings of a litigious society, though I couldn't believe he didn't use my favorite silly warning (on hair dryers: DO NOT USE WHILE SLEEPING).

Letra has passed for now, so the book's in the post to Zyana today. When I handed the package to the postal clerk, she actually said to me: "Portugal...Is that Spain or France?" I got nervous for a second that maybe it was some kind of trick question. 

Journal Entry 17 by Zyana from Porto - City, Porto Portugal on Tuesday, January 27, 2004

Arrived today safe and sound. I have 3 other bulky bookring books in front of it but I have great expectations for these book on account of the journal entries posted here so I'm sure I'll get busy with it soon enough.

Thank you so much MaddyMonkey for sending me this one! (I found it funny if not dismaying that the post office clerk didn't know where Portugal was, but then again it comes as no surprise ... most Americans don't. But she was at least spot on on the geographic location.) 

Journal Entry 18 by Zyana from Porto - City, Porto Portugal on Monday, February 23, 2004

I'm terribly annoyed because just when I had made a thoughtful, coherent and structured review on this book and the impression it made on me my pc froze and I had to restart it hence loosing all the explanation i had written down explaining why I rated this book so low. I'm pretty frustrated right now and can't imagine going into all that again so I'll journal again when I'm past this pc-fury. Meanwhile I'd like to note that the book has been mailed today to the next person on the ring. 177 

Journal Entry 19 by IrasCignavojo from Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Wednesday, March 17, 2004

Journal Entry 20 by IrasCignavojo from Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany on Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Journal Entry 21 by IrasCignavojo at n/a in n/a, Bookring -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Released on Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at n/a in n/a, Bookring Controlled Releases.

On the way to Ench now.