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ISBN-13: 9780316777735 - ISBN-10: 0316777730 Publication Date: 6/1/1998 Pages: 291 |
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Book Reviews of Naked
62 Book Reviews submitted by our Members
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12 member(s) found this review helpful.
This is quite possibly the funniest book I have ever read. If you are feeling down and you think nothing can perk you up, try reading Naked, and I promise, you'll be laughing within minutes.
7 member(s) found this review helpful.
Sedaris is hilarious, but you probably already knew that. His life and family make for a great read.
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6 member(s) found this review helpful.
I liked it; it's hard to believe that someone with as much lack of direction, and who has had so many near misses with disaster has manged to create as much of a career as Sedaris has.
I thought his bio would be funnier -- that's what the back cover copy would have you believe -- but while there are certainly many funny moments, there's a lot of nail biting, too. It doesn't make the book bad, but it didn't hit my expectations, either. So I'm left with an odd feeling about it.
This review sounds lukewarm --- but the book is actually quite good. It's just not crazy funny like I thought it would be.
6 member(s) found this review helpful.
I got so many crazy looks when I would read this book at work on my lunch break. I laughed out loud and everyone thought I was crazy!
This book is ridiculously funny. Smart and funny is a combination I love in a book.
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very funny and well written memoir. One of those books that pulled me right in to the story.
4 member(s) found this review helpful.
David Sedaris's stories about his family and growing up. His visit to the nudist camp is hilarious.
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
David Sedaris is an absolute hoot!
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
Very funny! Sedaris is so easy and fun to read, the book is over before you know it.
Alicia M. (
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
my favorite of david sedaris so far...
i heard myself laughing out loud so many times!
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Hillarious!! I loved reading this book. It's also quite a conversation piece just sitting around your house. I read numerous parts aloud to groups.
Valerie L. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
David Sedaris has a unique voice: part petulance, a little whiny, but completely honest about himself. And always very, very funny! In "Naked" Sedaris presents himself, in this set of memoirs drawing from his childhood onward, as full of insecurities (spending a week at a nudist resort reveals just one of these) and being at the mercy of his sarcastic, wise-cracking chain-smoking mother, siblings who compete with him for her attention, and a father who frequently embarrasses him. But he recognizes the absurdity even the most embarrassing situations, and makes the reader laugh.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Ha ha ha ha ha! Hee hee hee! Snort! Ha ha ha!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
this is hysterical. David sedaris at his best.
Jodi C. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
David Sedaris never disappoints.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
A great, laugh out loud book
Brittany S. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
very funny.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Didn't care for this and didn't finish it.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Wierd snippets of a strange life.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
****
contributor to THIS AMERICAN LIFE on NPR, good writer, funny
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
hysterical book. can be a bit overwhelming if you don't know sedaris' humor and style of writing
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Hilarious, dry humor. Collection of short stories somewhat connected.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Laugh-out-loud funny
Gwen G. reviewed on 2/21/2007...
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Hilarious , wry and brilliant!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Hilarious! I had to stop and laugh out loud SEVERAL TIMES!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book was sent to me through PBS with a tiny water stain at the bottom corner, that affects oly the first 20 pages of the book. I didn't see this as a problem, but felt I should give others fair warning!
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Awesome essays by a truly funny man...
April B. (
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
The author is painfully honest which leads to some dark humor. I didn't care for some of the short stories, but others had me laughing out loud and reading lines to whomever was near because I couldn't keep it too myself.
Laugh-out loud funny in places, tear-welling in others. David's recollections of his strange family and challenging childhood evokes sympathy and laughter. Pulls no punches; not recommended for those who might be easily offended as there is a lot here to offend. But his honesty cuts to the core and is a breath of fresh air.
Shanan O. (Hilarious, sometimes jarringly so. You'll laugh out loud.
This book had me laughing hysterically, although if you can get this on tape/CD and listen to Sedaris' whiney voice reading it, well that's even better!
This is Sedaris' autobiography of being a misfit in a misfit family that moved from the New York to Raleigh, NC. Talk about culture shock! There are also touching moments in this book, and Sedaris pulls those off with tenderness and bittersweet humor. A great "break in" read from David Sedaris.
I think he's brilliant, esp. in live audio, but I couldn't really get into this book.
Carla H. (David Sedaris tells the funniest stories about his life. This was by far the best book that I read by him. It is really good.
Humerous, sometimes laugh out loud funny, Mr. Sedaris takes you through a few vignettes in his diverse life.
Connie G. (
Lorrie M. (I was not impressed at all with Sedaris's collection of essays about his life... am I the only one? Though it is touted to be full of laughs, I found nothing funny about the stories. An alcholic mother, an angry father, strange siblings, Sedaris's struggle with OCD... just not my idea of funny.
Sidesplitting. That's what one of the reviews on the back says and I really can't capture it better than that. Interesting portraits of the author's family life in this one. Sometimes sad, but always hysterically funny.
If your a David Sedaris fan like I am, you'll love this book of short stories. His story Naked about the week he spent in a nudist colony had me rolling.
Cathy A. (Ready to laugh? Another David Sedaris that will entertain you and have you laughing out loud.
I like David Sedaris very much, but this book seemed a lot less generous and a little mean spirited compared to his other humor. I much preferred "Me Talk Pretty Someday".
I enjoy his writing very much. I found this collection of essays to be humerous although not as sidesplitting as "Me Talk Pretty One Day."
This is well written, but I was expecting it to be funnier. It's actually deeper than I expected.
be the first on your block to have a personally autographed copy of NAKED. my personal favorite line is when the drunk mom says to the daughter "no liquor at your wedding??? the daughter says she's not having that kind of wedding. The mom says, what kind? happy?
for some reason that just made me laugh out loud.
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