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Title: Naked
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Author: David Sedaris
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• Posted on 2009-09-12
  An absolute riot
  
  I thought my family was insane, and they are- but Sedaris's family makes mine look boring in comparison. He is insightful, his descriptions are always very visual and funny and his cynicism has an unexpected warmth!
  
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• Posted on 2009-08-09
  Naked is clearly the best book ever
  
  I love all of David Sedaris' books, and Naked is my absolute fave. Sedaris is funny and smart without "mugging" for laughs. His use of language and tempo is spot on. One of my favorite quotes of all time comes from the story, "Dinah the Christmas Whore," when Dinah, the Christmas Whore, drunk at the Sedaris family home, lovingly refers to Sedaris and his siblings as "A pack of goddman angels."
  
  The author is glaringly open about his insecurities, hopes, dreams, downfalls, and it is this is why we can laugh at his criticisms of those around him because he is always most critical of himself.
  
  "Get Your Yaya's Out," about Sedaris' depressed, unassimilated (though having lived in the US for four decades at least)Greek grandmother with a tendency to gather and eat the neighbor's plants, is both hilarious and sad. I don't want give anything else away because it's a treat to explore this book on your own.
  
  I don't believe that this should be labled as a "gay memoir." Good writing, humor, the human condition, the universal unconscious: all supercede sexual identity, race, or religion. I adore Naked and I find myself relating to Sedaris more than any other author and that is the stark truth.
  
  Audrey Spilker Hagar, author, Our Lives Have Gone to the Dogs
  
  
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• Posted on 2009-07-23
  Publish date wrong?
  
  I bought this book thinking it's new because the listed publish date is May 2009. When I looked into the book, it says it was published in 1997. It would be nice if they could get their information straight before adding books to their web pages! That's completely misleading.
  
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• Posted on 2009-07-15
  Glorious and Painful Recognition
  
  I picked up the book Naked by David Sedaris at a thrift store and it's been collecting dust on my computer cabinet at home ever since. Not because I didn't want to read it but because my floor-to-ceiling bookcases are crammed full and I just hadn't gotten around to it yet. The reason for my sudden interest is due, in full, to a Facebook note that circulated yesterday instructing the reader to grab the first book nearest you and post the fifth sentence from page 56 as your Facebook status. "Pimps and circus clowns have been dressing that way for years." jumped off the page at me and after going through several pages on my train commute to work this morning, I was hooked.
  
  Perhaps because I can (painfully) relate, the section entitled "A Plague of Tics" where the author recounts his earliest memories of OCD, was hysterically funny to me. I tried to read it during my lunch break but was seriously afraid I was going to choke, I was laughing so hard - I had to put my fork down. I imagine even non-sufferers of this wretched and embarrassing absurdity of a disorder will find humour in his comical narrative.
  
  I owe it to my Facebook friends for inspiring me to finally dust the cover and crack this one open. I haven't laughed this much in one setting since watching Kevin James perform his onstage act Sweat the Small Stuff.
  
  I've barely gotten through the first few chapters, but I am completely enamored. More later . . .
  
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• Posted on 2009-06-26
  great book!
  
  Crazy, laugh out loud funny, especially if you can relate to the quirky obsessive compulsive behaviors, the mother who has her own FUNNY (nutty) way of dealing with her life, ...and this is just the first few chapters!
  
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