Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
by David Rakoff
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Author: David RakoffEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-20
ISBN: 0385510365
Number of pages: 240
Publisher: Doubleday
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Book Review: Rakoff > Sedaris
Summary: 5 Stars
It's impossible, as many reviewers have noted, not to review Rakoff without mentioning Sedaris. Rakoff is Betty to Sedaris' Veronica - Sedaris is more famous, more popular, has the better press. And yet I've always been a Betty man myself.
Unlike Sedaris, Rakoff describes the things he is reviewing and the actions he is seeing and performing, not just how he felt about them. His insights are profound and amusing. Other people have commented on the Hooters Air section of the book and it's a good one. But the Log Cabin Republicans part is actually one of my favorites. Rakoff is able to show you why he thinks these people are crazy without making them into caricatures. You leave this book having a more tolerant opinion of the people described in it, but you also got in some good laughs at their expense or (more often than you'd think) at Rakoff's. The laughs, though, are in good fun.
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