David Sedaris is pee-in-your-pants funny. Not to be read on an airplane, at work, or where anyone is trying to sleep.

Several years ago, I read Holidays on Ice and, while I found the first few essays hilarious, I was tired of the whole thing by the time I finished. So I went on what I thought would be a life-time David Sedaris sabbatical.

Luckily for me and my reading resolutions, I picked up a copy of the audio version of Dress Your Family when there were otherwise slim pickings at my library. Listening to Sedaris read his own stories made all the difference. There were several that I found to be laugh-out-loud funny, and I was disappointed to come to the last one. Hearing the inflections and the voices the way Sedaris intended them to sound was the key.

it’s fucking near water!
i didn’t find this collection as funny as his others but i still chuckled.

Everyone wants to recount their adolesence with excitement as well as honest depictions of how things happened. I appreciate the Sedaris family’s take on life and their naive charm.

This is funny book that I would most definitely recommend.

Loved it. I thought this was better than Me Talk Pretty One Day. It seemed to be a bit snappier and the humour a bit dryer. A favourite!

This wasn’t as good as I had hoped. I loved some of the stories (Six to Eight Black Men is hilarious, and I love Baby Einstein), but I found myself unmoved by others. A mixed collection, I felt, but worth browsing through.

David Sedaris makes everyone’s mom look like a saint. The bittersweet tales of his childhood make you tear up with laughter.