Summary & Study Guide Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

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David Sedaris, a humorist and writer, presents a compilation of comical personal essays in Me Talk Pretty One Day. The essays are strung together with Sedaris's candid manner and a persistent language theme. The book is divided into two parts, and with a few exceptions, focuses on the early part of Sedaris's life in the first half, and the more recent years of his life while living in France in the second half.

This study guide includes the following Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for Discussion.

Genres: Audiobook, Humor, Nonfiction

60 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 18, 2010

Reviews

[Rosina Franco de Abreu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it ! It made laugh to tears! The atual book, I mean.And it's good to read about it.

[Almeda Riley · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book of essays about life experience is very entertaining, and not at all what I had expected. Since I'm interested in language, I especially liked the ones about his speech therapy as a child, and the ones about living in France and trying to learn French. However, there are chuckles all through the book. I recommend it for a light read and good humor. This man has a really droll sense of humor.

[Sharon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did not find much very funny or humorous. Disappointed. Maybe we should name it "MeTalk Ugly Everyday".

[Romona Monteith · Rating 4 out of 5]

So good

[Heather · Rating 1 out of 5]

I kept hanging on for it to get funny but it never did. I eventually put it down because it was just boring.

[David Jacobson · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite of his books. Cracked up several times while reading it. Highly recommended

[Carrie Billig]

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[Louise Pelletier · Rating 4 out of 5]

Funny and just what the doctor ordered. I needed something light to distract me from the cognitive dissonance I was experiencing at the time. I will leave it at that.

[Liam · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Her temperament was not based on a series of good and bad days but, rather, good and bad moments." (of his french teacher, 170)

"In trying to communicate why and Academy Award-winning actress [Jodie Foster] might walk down the beach carrying a plastic bag full of dog feces, I got the sort of lump in my throat that other people might get while singing their national anthem. It was the pride one can feel only when, far from home and surrounded by a captive audience, you are called upon to explain what is undoubtedly the single greatest thing about your country." (218)

[Smitha Murthy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just didn't appeal to me - apart from the odd smile, this book was an utter waste of time

[Maria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book...he is a great writer that has such a dry twisted humor, you find yourself laugh at the strangest things...laughed almost through the whole book!

[Arnie Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

I usually love his stuff, but I found this a little bit below his usual standard. The cutting wit wasn't there in its usual dose. Enjoyable, just not his best.

[Heather De armas · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a howl!

[Hinke Van gils · Rating 4 out of 5]

hilarious!

[Patty · Rating 5 out of 5]

Laughing out loud funny!

[Sivia Del · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hilarious! A fun read. It was a nice change of pace to read a humorous memoir.