I love the way Sedaris goes off on tangents and then brings everything together at the end. When reading several of his pieces in a row it can become a bit repetitive, but he does it with such skill and humor and that it can be really delightful to read.
This is a book filled with essays or short stories that involve Sedaris life that I checked out because it was recommended by Yan. I thought the first essay was funny, but the rest of the stories just sound like Sedaris being mean and not that funny. Sure it got a giggle or two out of me when he rea...
Often weird, often funny - I always enjoy David Sedaris. The major piece was about quitting smoking - in a long roundabout way. Some pieces were better than others of course and I'm glad that he embellishes the stories with enough personal weirdness to steer clear of Andyrooneyville.
When You Are Engulfed in Flames continues David Sedaris' cataloguing of the awkward moments of his life in humorous, memoir-like essays. Herein are more of his usual daily-life topics: getting to know the neighbors (I.E. the local child molester), his fascination with creepy shit, the annoying peopl...
I love David Sedaris, and while this book was just as well written as all of his others, it was not laugh out loud funny as some of them are. I still suggest reading it, but just don't get your hopes up to be dying from laughter.
Funny funny. He is gentler in this book, not so mean as in the last one. You want to chat over coffee with him for a couple of hours. He is so observant. Reviewers describe his “skewed” outlook, but I think his outlook is dead on accurate, nothing skewed about it all. Clear-eyed, and direct.He ...
Not as funny as some of his earlier work, When You Are Engulfed in Flames still shows the same cleverly self-deprecating humor and story-telling savoir-faire that committed Sedaris readers and listeners have grown dependent upon.[ full review ]
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