![]() When I was reading this book, I thought that his stories and characters were a little too colorful and a little too perfect to be true. ![]() He comes across as the type of person who might be fun to have a beer with, but, afterwards, he'd probably make fun of you behind your back. Sedaris plies his trade.īut, I just don't care for David Sedaris. I am exactly the target demographic for the witty, petty misanthropy with which Mr. Hell, I even like listening to This American Life on NPR. I look at myself in the mirror and practice being droll. I enjoy reading personal essays about poignant and humiliating events in people's personal lives. I am a sarcastic Generation Xer with an overdeveloped sense of irony. ![]() It was somewhat of an existential struggle for me to reach this conclusion because I'm exactly the kind of person who should like David Sedaris. I have stared deep into the cockles of my heart, and forced myself to come to the only obvious-but-unpopular conclusion. ![]()
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