Naked by David Sedaris Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Naked
Book Review: the funniest damn book ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I can't remember when I've been so bummed out to finish a book - I wish I could just continue reading it until the end of time! I laughed so hard! He is my new favorite author in the whole wide world!Book Review: try to ignore the looks people give you...
Summary: 4 Stars
my goodness. this novel will definitely make other people question your sanity. while i was sitting in class one day, i remembered some funny parts of the book and i just busted out laughing. it was hard to explain to my teacher and classmates how the hell i could be quiet one moment and laughing insanely the next. the book is just so hilarious, you can't help but laugh out loud. i was a bit disappointed, though, that i didn't find the latter part of the book as funny. but it's a good read. i recommend it, but not if you can't stand people looking at you strangely. ;)Book Review: um, i want to get naked, too.
Summary: 5 Stars
what other book is entitled naked? that is all i HAVE to say, but i will say more. when i approached this book in the store the title caught my eye, and after the first few lines i was hooked... i loved ever second of it: the quirky descriptions of the characters that literally haunted his life, the self discovery that is truly stated in a raw manner, and the fact that this is supposedly someone's life. well-written is one way of putting it... and then the way i would like to be able to write about my life is another. i seriously could not put this book down, either this boy (man?) had a life that was truly interesting... or he has some great writing talent... i wish i could make my life into a story that is hard to put down, but that may be why i retreat to other's lives in which it is quite hard to get up to go to the bathroom (i brought the book into the bathroom with me...)i think we need to get naked a bit more often, hmm... i rammble a bit... as does david.
Book Review: we are all incredibly fallible
Summary: 5 Stars
When we come to memoir, though, comedy seems to be the most fruitful mode. Comedy allows the proper self-deprecation that the narrator/author sympathetic. David Sedaris is happy to make fun of himself and all of those around him without recourse; as if we are all comic actors, somehow not living up to our potential. What Sedaris understands completely is that we are incredibly fallible and he is so willing to let us see him as foolish that one might think that he has no shame. Except that we know he's too sensitive for that.
Allowing characters to be vulnerable and with flaws is not only necessary for comedy, but it is critical to all writing. Readers are flawed and so they expect characters to be as well. Sedaris teaches us well that our characters can be at times ridiculous and still be likable. We need not be embarrassed for them. We should understand them and cherish them for what makes them like us.
Book Review: wow?! really? could it be?!
Summary: 5 Stars
Naked tells such funny stories about David Saderis' life it's hard to believe! Starting from childhood when his neurotic mind forces him to lick light switches, to when he visists a nudist camp, this book is OUTRAGEOUS!!!Naked held some of the most ridiculous,original things I have ever read. Few books have held my attention like this. I kept finding myself lyling on the coutch reading instead of watching TV. For a while there, Naked was my TV.
Joey-one false mover