Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris (November 12-14, 2005)
With the praise heaped upon the back cover and six opening pages of the book, I expected that I would be in for a real treat, and be laughing non-stop from start to finish. Instead, I felt deceived. What I thought was a book, was a series of autobiographical essays, ordered without structure. There was no care to place these essays in any order by chronology or theme. Worst of all, there was no editing to remove the redundancy between stories. Of all the chapters, I only enjoyed parts of one titled “Jesus Shaves,” which included an amusing anecdote of a French class trying to explain the meaning of Easter. This book was not at all memorable.
