![]() Maybe he’s the kind of “character” who grows on you - in which case I humbly suggest first-timers like me start with some of his earlier works and progress to Diabetes. While Larry David knows how to flirt perfectly with controversy, I’m afraid I can’t say the same for David Sedaris. There are definite shades of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” here (a series I adore by the way). But there was just too much self-involved, self-righteous, self-pity to keep me interested. Although he peaked way too early, there were some genuinely funny moments speckled throughout. ![]() I was ready to purchase every book he’d ever written, and I’d already decided Diabetes was clearly going to be a five-star listen. ![]() After the first chapter, I was a “David Sedaris Convert”. But the worst chapters are rotten - like sodden, red Froot Loops masquerading as rubies. This is especially true of the chapters recorded at live book-readings with an audience. Some of the chapters are true jewels - preciously hilarious, wonderfully observed and dryly told pieces of satire. And what a bizarre and conflicting little necklace this book turns out to be. ![]() From my subsequent research, it seems the author has a distinctive and predictable style essentially a series of semi-related, extremely personal, based-on-a-true-story essays strung together like mismatching baubles on an eclectic necklace. I was totally unfamiliar with Sedaris’ back catalogue when I started this audiobook. ![]()
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