When You Are Engulfed in Flames
 | Hachette Audio, 2008, Audio CD Customer Rating: 218 reviews Recommend |
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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.
Title: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Sales Rank: 4397 in Books
Creator: David Sedaris
Publisher: Hachette Audio, Unabridged edition, 2008-06-03, Audio CD, ISBN: 1600241824
Package Dimensions: 5.9 x 5.3 x 1.6 inches, 0.5 pounds
- Stoo, Drop and Roll
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames is filled with more of David Sedaris's essays on pretty much anything that crosses his mind. From his neighbor Helen to the boil on his lower back to wanting to see the dingo at the zoo. Sedaris dwells on his inadequacies to the point of sleep (the reader's). There are some humorous moments, but Sedaris focuses… More reviews
- interesting sense of humor, very funny
- I'm a Sedaris fan - I think his sense of humor is very intellectual and hilarious. He makes fun of himself and gives his impression of the things going on around him - just really funny. I laugh out loud with this one. More reviews
- More gut grabbing laughs.
- Straight from the Van Gogh on the cover through an essay on the practicality of the colostomy bag. The book is filled with the sort of uncomfortably wonderful humor that we have come to expect from Sedaris. Whether you've read his previous five novels or are picking up your first, you'll love this book. … More reviews
- Still Familiar, but Still Funny
- A few years back word got around that one of Sedaris' first books (Naked) was to be made into a film. The idea seemed impossible. "Naked" is a seemingly random group of short stories. Sporadic but polished diary entrees at best. There was no real story there. Matthew Brodrick was rumored to be attacked to the project and it seemed for a short time that… More reviews
- Gimme More.....................
- As always, David Sedaris delivers an easy to read and very funny book. He never disappoints.… More reviews
