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Chargement... Je parler français (2000)par David Sedaris
  
» 30 plus Books Read in 2017 (471) Books Read in 2016 (2,082) 2000s decade (42) Books Read in 2005 (21) Big tags (2) To Read (141) Alphabetical Books (106) Best Beach Reads (93) French Books (50) Best Satire (95) Five star books (1,168) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  tecniferio | May 12, 2022 |  My first David Sedaris book and it won’t be my last. Hilarious, laugh out loud (and read out loud to those around you) funny. In places it ranged from uproarious to outrageous, but it is always monumentally funny. For some reason I missed Sedaris on TV and in podcasts, but I’m glad a friend gave me this book. (  ) DanDiercks | Apr 4, 2022 | Funny. (  ) Tytania | Mar 16, 2022 | "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris got me through Christmas. He recounts speech class because he had a lisp. He tells stories about learning French and Japanese. He always makes me laugh and I so needed it. Thank you, David. ( ) nab6215 | Jan 18, 2022 | It took me a minute to get into this book, but once it gained traction, I’ve been enjoying his irreverent and self deprecating sense of humor. There’s something about a vacuum and the ash remains of a cat!😳😂 At one point, he gets hired as a teacher and in his attempt to “aid” or foster inspiration, he encourages them to smoke...because you know...that’s what writers do!lol until a student calls him on it by making reference to Aristophanes, Jane Austen, and the Brontës never having smoked. Sedaris then says “ I jotted these names into my notebook alongside the word “troublemaker,” and said I’d look into it.” It just cracked me up! (  )1  Eosch1 | Jan 2, 2022 |
 Whereas ''Naked'' reads like a series of overlapping autobiographical essays, this volume feels more like a collection of magazine pieces or columns on pressing matters like the care and feeding of family pets and the travails of dining in Manhattan. But if Mr. Sedaris sometimes sounds as though he were making do with leftover material, ''Talk Pretty'' still makes for diverting reading.  The gifted Sedaris has not been hard enough on himself. At the risk of sounding patronizing, I suspect there is a better writer in there than he is as yet willing to let out. This collection is, in its way, damned by its own ambitious embrace of variety; with so many pieces assembled, the stronger ones always punish the weaker... But reading or listening to David Sedaris is well worth the lulls for the thrills. Appartient à la série éditorialeEst contenu dansEst en version abrégée dansContient un guide de lecture pour étudiant
A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless. The New York Times Book Review on Naked Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Lo peor del asunto: me he reído con algún pasaje más de lo que me río con las cosas que hacen gracia al ciudadano medio. El autor usa el humor negro hasta un punto que podría considerarse maltrato, ¡me encanta! Además, abusa de algunos estereotipos que, siendo inciertos, me reconfortan por la semblanza que muestran del individuo común (especialmente cuando sale fuera de su zona de confort).
Lo mismo he aprendido más de la vida moderna leyendo este recopilatorio que con un sesudo blog de filosofía: eso me asusta. (