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Hip radio comedy fans and theater folks who belong to the cult of Obie-winning playwright/performer David Sedaris must kill to get this book. These would be fans of the scaldingly snide Sedaris's hilariously described personal misadventures like The Santaland Diaries (a monologue about his work as an elf to a department store Santa) seen off-Broadway in 1997. In a series of similarly textured essays, Sedaris takes us along on his catastrophic detours through a nudist colony, a fruit-packing plant, his own childhood, and a dozen more of the world's little purgatories. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.


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Sedaris (Barrel Fever, LJ 5/1/94) has fashioned a funny memoir of his wonderfully offbeat life. To call his family "dysfunctional" would be enormous understatement and beside the point; Sedaris's relatives and other companions become vital characters on the page. We see his mother serving drinks to the string of teachers who want to discuss her son's compulsions to lick light switches and make high-pitched noises. We travel with Sedaris and his quadriplegic hitchhiking companion, listen to his foul-mouthed seat mate on a long bus trip, and accompany the author on a hilariously self-conscious visit to a nudist colony. Sedaris's humor is wickedly irreverent but not mean. Traveling with him is well worth it for the laughs and his generous human sensibility. Highly recommended.?Mary Paumier Jones, Rochester P.L., N.Y.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Looking for humor, finding little, Jun 30 2003
By Peter Lorenzi (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
Wanting and expecting to enjoy "Naked" may have been an explanation as to why I did not enjoy this book. My naiveté.

"Naked" reads like P.J. O'Rourke's adaptation of Brett Easton Ellis' "American Psycho". While O'Rourke is intelligent and insightful with his biting sarcasm and wit, Sedaris was simply dark and at times, cruel and mean, without the insight. His first chapter, "Chipped beef," showed some promise. But by the second, "A plague of tics," about a young boy with obsessive-compulsive disorder of a serious magnitude, I was nervously squirming, hoping that these were but rough spots. But then he moved to dumping on his grandmother, Ya-Ya ("Get your Ya-Ya's out"), and it became much more difficult to continue. Poor grandmothers. As if age alone was not cruel. Why have an ungrateful grandson to add to the trouble? His fourth chapter, "Next of kin" did not revive my hopes for some humor. Perhaps it was funny but it was more perverted than humorous. His next chapter, "Cyclops," opens with, "When he was young my father shot out his best friend's eye with a BB gun." Pretty grim. Within a page, it becomes internecine, as "my sister Tiffany stabbed me in the eye with a freshly sharpened pencil." Then the father gives the story an even more perverted twist. The next chapter, "The Women's Open" was an improvement.

For better, funny dark humor, I recommend Martin Amis, Joseph Heller or the aforementioned O'Rourke.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Fizzled out, Mar 10 2003
This was my first experience with Sedaris and initially found him to write sarcastic humor extremely well. He is so witty, I tried to commit some of his one-liners to memory. I was intrigued with the first essay and really impressed with the second about his compulsive behaviors. His descriptions of his mother were fantastic! Kinda' Ya-Ya sisterhood, without all the resentment. His self-descriptions were very flat, leaving me with a feeling this is a person I wouldn't want to hang out with ---- which can't be true because he is very funny!

Unfortunately, this book fizzled out for me. The hitchihiking stories have been done before. The look at middle America was funny at times, but not insightful. It got slower and slower. I could hardly endure the last chapter and didn't need to hear another description about someone's pimply butt. I just wanted it to end.

I recommended reading the first two essays. If the third lets you down, forget it. It doesn't get any better than chapter 2.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Fizzled Out, Jun 15 2001
By JMD "gradster" (Swampscott, MA) - See all my reviews
After the first two chapters, I was laughing out loud and congratulating myself on having chosen a really good book. By the middle of the book, the humor was wearing thin and I found myself actually disliking - very much - the main character. By the end of the book, I couldn't stand him, and I wasn't laughing anymore. He struck me as a weak, non-memorable whiner who would rather play the cynic as opposed to trying to make any situation he found himself in better through some initiative of his own. I had no expectations when I bought the book - didn't know what it would be like. But after having read it, I feel as if it was time out of my life wasted. You know how when you finish a good book you feel a real sense of satifaction? Well, with this one I felt only annoyed.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Good stories, not funny
I got this book after reading ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY. I love that one and laughted lot. Unfortunately this book didn't give me what I wanted which was laughter. Read more
Published 1 month ago by N. Drouin

5.0 out of 5 stars All his books are great
I was one of the first to buy NAKED and, well, all of Sedaris's books. The best, by far, is ME TALK PRETTY, but NAKED is second in line for honors. As with all Mr. Read more
Published on May 27 2006 by Kareem W.

5.0 out of 5 stars Funny and witty
This is a very funny book, so funny that I shed tears of fun throughout the time that I read it. The title "Naked" is itself enticing, and reading the book offers no regrets for... Read more
Published on Aug 11 2005 by Bobby Ferguson

5.0 out of 5 stars RAW AND FUNNY!
David Sedaris' "Naked" is aptly titled, because he is a writer with no qualms about laying himself and his life bare on the page. Read more
Published on Jun 9 2005 by Derrick Caldwell

5.0 out of 5 stars The Naked truth is . . . that I loved this!
NAKED is one of the best! Hmmm...Yes! Sedaris' first book BARREL FEVER left me aching for more of his self-deprecating sense of humor. Aching for over a year, in fact. Read more
Published on Jun 3 2005 by Paul Piorick

5.0 out of 5 stars Necked
NAKED has to be the funniest book I've ever read. I expected to read the book, write my review and be done with it. Read more
Published on Mar 2 2005 by ThomsEBynum

5.0 out of 5 stars Stripped naked and loving every minute of it
While I wasn't jumping up and down screaming at David Sedaris's new book, I felt I must give this on its due, along with ME TALK PRETTY ONE DAY. Read more
Published on Jul 27 2004 by dobset2899frk

5.0 out of 5 stars Addictive.
David Sedaris takes you on a journey through part of his life in a series of autobiographical essays - each one better than the last. Read more
Published on Jul 20 2004 by HutSutRaw

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Funniest Misadventures EVER
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Published on Jul 19 2004 by H. Johnson

5.0 out of 5 stars Let's Get NAKED!
This collection of autobiographical essays ranges the gamut of diverse topics from a nudist colony (the essay which gives the collection its title) to a chain-smoking mother dying... Read more
Published on Jun 28 2004

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