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Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
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Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
"I'm going to be talking about Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris. It's little tidbits here and there, first starting with him being I think about eight or nine, and he's in elementary school, and they start sending him to a speech therapist because he has a lisp. And apparently he notices that all the little boys with lisps seem to go to this woman, and they're trying to train them to not be gay, is pretty much what they're saying.
So it jumps from there, then it jumps to him learning guitar, because the dad is really, really into music, and his guitar teacher is saying, "Oh, name it after a woman and play her," and he's like I'm not going to name it after a woman; I already know that. And it just kind of jumps around in his life, and he's just - the way he talks about it is really funny. He seems to have had a lot of funny things happen to him, which makes it entertaining.
I mainly found the way that he wrote very engaging. It wasn't at all mundane, it wasn't like, oh, this is what happened in this stage of my life, and then this happened. Part of it is that he jumps around, and then he'll fare one like, oh, here's something about my sister, where you hadn't heard about that. So he'll just reveal this close intimate relationship that he has with her, that he hasn't previously mentioned, and it just - it feels really real. He's funny. You should read him."
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