Naked (Abridged) Audiobook

" Another enjoyable series of essays from David. I first read this about a decade ago, and it was just as good the second time around. "

" My second favorite David Sedaris book. He's endlessly funny! "

" Starts off surprisingly appealing, dry wit combined with the uncertainty on whether or not I'm reading a real autobiography or a fiction loosely based on personal life. As it goes on, you realize he is talking about himself and his dysfunctional family in a way that is both snide and exploitative...after a while I came to the conclusion that even though he writes decently, I am getting absolutely nothing out of reading the memoirs of a moderately talented guy writing a scathing expose on his moderately interesting family. So I gave up about 25% in... "

" How could I go on a road trip without David Sedaris? This book on CD was so entertaining and heartfelt, the miles flew by. I feel like I know Sedaris after listening to him read the stories of growing up in his family. "

" Naked is a collection of stories by David Sedaris that center around his favorite themes .. family and growing up. More adult and substantial than some of his other books and occasionally quite funny. "

" I found these candid essays hilarious. Everything from a stolen gold plated mechanical pencil (that he didn't really steal) to making clocks out of jade had me laughing out loud. I'll always think twice about applesauce now. "

" Great read, love Sedaris. "

" This a a David Sedaris book. The humor is dark and twisted but it still makes you laugh. If you like David Sedaris you will like this book, if you don't then you won't. Enough said "

" I love him, and I have now read everything he has written and seen him live, but for some reason I did not find this one as funny. I think it was more melancholic than funny. It could be that I had also heard at least one of the stories on NPR before, too. "

" Probably the funniest book I've ever read. Any book that makes you laugh out loud so much is worth reading again and again. "

" When one of Sedaris' books comes out, I buy it immediately! "

" amusing essays, not LOL. One on nudist camp visit rings true "

" I could not put this book down. I also couldn't read it in public, as I would suddenly laugh at loud! Hilarious!! "

" This book was recommended to Page by her friend Celia. It is a collection of humorous essays about various topics. The only one I could get remotely interested in was the one about his vacation in a nudist colony, the title piece. It was pretty good. The other essays were pointless. "

" Great work! David Sedaris captures the comedy and sometimes the tragedy of family and life itself. And he does it with style... "

" "Ashes" might be the best thing I've ever read. "

" The open honesty of Roger Waters with the substance of an angry teenager. If I reject them first, they can't hurt me. "

" Not as funny as his first book...darker and a little more bitter. "

" Not as good as I was expecting, but still very entertaining. "

" I was not as pleased with the first half of this book as I was with the first Sedaris book I read, Me Talk Pretty One Day. Being not so happy with those, I was a little fearful going into the sometimes 50 page stories presented in the second half of this book, but they proved to be the better ones. "

" The essay about mother in laws is truly hilarious. "

" very funny. Was familiar with Sedaris, but this was the first of his books that I have read. Definitely will read the others. "

" Funny, laugh out loud funny. But it carried on a bit too long for me. "

" funny, and dark, classic Sedaris "

" Super funny. Sedaris has an interesting writing style that is at times very poignant, humorous, heartfelt, and expressive. "

" I'm not sure I even want to own up to having read this but it was another book club offering so I am inclined to give them a go. It was okay in some chapters but others were not my cup of tea at all (I just skipped over them) You won't be rolling around laughing I can assure you. "

" This is my second time reading it. I forgot almost everything, so it's like reading it for the first time again. It's really good. "

" Not as good as Me Talk Pretty One Day but still filled with great laughs and off humor. "

" Assigned to read this for American Nonfiction. Sedaris, what a humorist... "

" As always, I find Sedaris' essays laugh-out-loud funny. "

" Love him, but not my favorite of his work. A little boring and depressing for me. "

" Love, love, love. Plague if tics is the single funniest story I have ever read. Ashes is perfect piece if writing. Easily Sedaris's best work to date. "