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When You Are Engulfed In Flames

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Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny (and never before published) account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.

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Date: 2008-07-08
Guess We're All Getting Old
This book proves that the era of David Sedaris is not dead but aging quickly. The best part of his latest collection of essays(which I've been long awaiting) is the jacket cover. David! You got old and boring on us.
RIP

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Date: 2008-07-07
Still Amazing
Years after achieving notoriety with "Santaland Diaries" and after many tales of cringing (and often astounding) self-revelation, it is reasonable to ask if David Sedaris can still deliver a story you would never imagine in print or if he can turn a phrase unlike anyone else. In short, yes he can. Sedaris still sets the standard for bracing, introspective writing that offers laughs with a lingering sense of pathos.

Long-time readers will find the collection of stories to be a seamless addition to Sedaris' body of work. The new chapters deepen and expand upon familiar subjects such as Sedaris' life-long negotiation with an anarchic family; mainstream expectations of "success," and a world filled with very random, very odd characters.

Newcomers to Sedaris will have no problem starting here. Sedaris' strength as a writer is his ability to beckon to absolute strangers and proceed to tell them the most revealing stories about himself in a wry, disarming way. However, it is very likely that a new reader will rapidly move onto Sedaris' other books because there really is no one else who tells a story like him.

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Date: 2008-07-07
Honestly
Honestly, what other book could get you through the hideousness of the 405 freeway in rush hour. Thanks David. They perfectly capture my cynical, dry mood each day and make me belly-ache laugh in my car. Who needs a hands free cell phone when you have these CDs to keep you company on long weekday commutes?

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Date: 2008-07-07
Pure Genius as always
David Sedaris has once again created a work of pure genius. As an amateur writer myself, I'm so incredibly envious of his ability to take the simplest little happening and turn it into a life altering event wrought with emotion. His work stands the test of re-reading over and over.

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Date: 2008-07-07
wonderful!
hes done it again! A great summer read! You will find yourself laughing out loud...buy the book! You wont regret it.

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