Thursday, October 29, 2009

My $.02

Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed this book and I think it has a little bit for everyone in it. This book is appealing in the sense that it's extremely hilarious. His anecdotes range from his experiences in walking into a bathroom with a giant piece of shit in the toilet to lugging around a typewriter everywhere because he's too scared of computers. David Sedaris is a renowned essayist, and I think everyone should be exposed to his writing, because you probably will anyway in college or sometime throughout your life.

As far as interesting discussion issues, this book is chock full of them: the fact that he's openly gay and likes to bring it up whenever he can, the fact that he experiments with drugs, and the fact that he picks up the oddest jobs possible just to make a living. All of these together turned this guy's life into a hell of an interesting book to read. As for "mature content" I can't really think of any Senior or Junior who's going to have trouble with this.

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