I read David Sedaris' "Jesus Shaves" and laughed so hard I decided I needed to give his writing one more try (I had tried "Naked", but couldn't get into it).

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Received safe ans will, has gone straight to the top of Mt TBR! :o)

Some really funny tales, but not really my kind of thing - Good fun though! :o)

will try and send on this week :os

Released on Tuesday, December 07, 2004 at about 10:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at Bookring in to another bookcrosser, By Post Controlled Releases.

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Off to Yorkshire (2nd Class)

Book received yesterday, thanks for the Xmas card Helly77!

I found this book amusing and very honest. This is the first book I have read of his and this will probably encourage me to read more of his books. This will be sent to Lokadesatada today or tomorrow.

Released on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 at about 11:00:00 AM BX time (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) at BookRing in Book Ring, A Bookring Controlled Releases.

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Sent to lokadesatada

Got this in the mail 2 days ago (sorry for the delay registering it)

I plan on mailing it around 25/01

Couldn't finish it...

I finally received this in the mail today after waiting months for it. It came from Chile. I have received another copy and will send this one on its way as soon as I get the next address.

Will ship to Tenneh on 4-6-05

Received today - will get to it soon

This book was a fairly easy quick read but not my favorite. Just not one I could really relate to.

Received today. :)
Thanks jamesmum and tenneh.

Drastically thinning out my TBR shelves and making this AVL.

Reserved for apolonia.

I have read this before and really enjoyed it. I will give it another read before passing it along. Thanks Cheesy!!

From the Publisher
ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all.

No medium available to mankind is spared his cultural vision; no family member (even the dynasties of family pets) is forgotten in these pages of sardonic memories of Sedaris's numerous incarnations in North Carolina, Chicago, New York, and France.

One essay, punctuated by a conspicuous absence of s's and plurals, introduces the lisping young fifth-grader David "Thedarith," who arms himself with a thesaurus, learns every nonsibilant word in the lexicon, eludes his wily speech therapy teacher, and amazes his countrified North Carolina teachers with his out-of-nowhere and man-size vocabulary.

By an ironic twist of fate, readers find present-day Sedaris in France, where only now, after all these years, he must cling safely to just plural nouns so as to avoid assigning the wrong genders to French objects. (Never mind that ordering items from the grocer becomes rather expensive.) Even the strictest of grammarians won't be able to look at the parts of speech in the same way after exposing themselves to the linguistic phenomena of Sedarisian humor. Just why is a sandwich masculine, and yet, say, a belt is feminine in the French language? As he stealthily tries to decode French, like a cross between a housewife and a shrewddetective, he earns the contempt of his sadistic French teacher and soon even resorts to listening to American books on tape for secret relief.

What David Sedaris has to say about language classes, his brother's gangsta-rap slang, typewriters, computers, audiobooks, movies, and even restaurant menus is sure to unleash upon the world a mad rash of pocket-dictionary-toting nouveau grammarians who bow their heads to a new, inverted word order.