The Best Of Me David Sedaris Book Review

The Best Of Me David Sedaris Book Review. The best of me still held new treasures for me to read, because i haven’t read all his books yet. The genius of “the best of me” is that it reveals the growth of a writer, a sense of how his outlook has changed and where he finds humor.

Little, brown, 388 pages, $30. I recommend listening to them if you can—his reading is as enjoyable as the writing. Me talk pretty one day was the first book of his that i read, and i quickly blew through his back catalogue at the time.

Even if you’ve read or listened to every word he’s ever written, it’s a terrific highlights reel and a chance to view the arc of sedaris’ development as a writer over 25 years.

I recently came across a list i wrote about 20 years ago that had. Me talk pretty one day was the first book of his that i read, and i quickly blew through his back catalogue at the time. It is miraculous to read these pieces. I don’t necessarily agree with all of his selections, and there are some particularly awesome essays he didn’t include (“a plague of tics,” “the drama bug,” and “dinah, the christmas whore”) he also didn’t include the essay that essentially made him famous: