- Audio CD
- Verlag: Hachette Audio; Auflage: Abridged (1. Oktober 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1586214349
- ISBN-13: 978-1586214340
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 15 x 13,5 x 6,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 572.118 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Star radio storyteller David Sedaris presents his collected works in one audio box set. The longest (at five hours) is his latest, Me Talk Pretty One Day, which contains two live performances from San Francisco. Welcome to a world where dogs outrank children, guitars have breasts, and Sedaris's fellow language-class students try to convey the concept of Easter to a Moroccan Muslim in their fledgling French (translated into English): "It is a party for the little boy of God," says one. "Then he be die one day on two ... morsels of ... lumber," says another. Sedaris is hilarious, and his Billie Holiday impression is amazing.
The three-hour, Christmas-themed Holidays on Ice is the gem of the collection. It has his greatest hit, "SantaLand Diaries," a chronicle of his stint as an elf at Macy's, covering everything from the preliminary group lectures ("You are not a dancer. If you were a real dancer you wouldn't be here. You're an elf and you're going to wear panties like an elf.") to the perils of inter-elf flirtation. Other hits feature the crazed newsletter "Season's Greetings to Our Friends and Family!!!" and the prostitute coworker his sister brought home one Yuletide, giving "the phrase 'ho, ho, ho' whole different meaning." Barrel Fever contains the fulminatingly funny "Glen's Homophobia Newsletter, Vol. 3, No. 2" and "Parade," discussing the narrator's perhaps not fully plausible gay relationships with Bruce Springsteen, Mike Tyson, and Peter Jennings. Naked describes his adventures in a nudist colony, but his family tales are, as ever, nonpareil. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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David Sedaris, geboren 1956 in Johnson City, New York, lebt in Paris und in der Normandie. Er ist Stückeschreiber, Rundfunkkommentator und Erzähler.
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Wer die Bücher von David Sedaris kennt und schätzt, weiß, dass seine Essays bissig, bewegend, sardonisch, kreativ und natürlich tödlich witzig sein können. Man kann seine Freude an die Werke Sedaris jedoch extrem steigern, indem man sie hört. Teilweise von seiner talentierten Schwester Amy unterstützt, erzählt Sedaris seine Geschichten wie nur er es kann: mit seiner ehrlichen, komischen, etwas weinerlichen Stimme. Die Besten Stücke aus seinen ersten vier Bücher sind vertreten - von den literarischen Leckerbissen in "Barrel Fever" und dem schmerzhaft-festlichen "Holidays on Ice" zu seinen Selbstenthüllungen in "Naked" und "Me Talk Pretty One Day". Diese Kollektion bietet ca. 14 Stunden reiner Unterhaltung an - wenn man sie nur einmal sich anhört; ich kann's aber nicht lassen. Für mich sind die Kassetten eine Dauerquelle des intelligenten, witzigen Gedankenfutters.
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PURE JOY
11. Februar 2001
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There is only one thing better, funnier, laff-out-loud more hilarious than reading David Sedaris' short stories: hearing them read to you by Sedaris, himself. I have read and thoroughly enjoyed all of Sedaris' published work, but I first came across him driving to work and hearing Sedaris on the radio read about his Christmas experience at Macy's Department Store in his "Santaland Diaries." I was laughing so loud and so hard that I, literally, had to pull my car off of the highway. Almost every story on these tapes is that funny and that insightful. Are they all top notch? Probably not. But there is so much pure joy on these tapes (on which Sedaris is aided and abetted by his sister, actress/writer, Amy Sedaris)that I'm willing to give 5 stars to comic writing that sometimes falls from brilliance to mere hilarity.
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You MUST buy this!
30. November 2000
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I first heard of Sedaris through This American Life (An amazing Public Radio show) and immediately bought and read his books. David's writing is beyond belief, but hearing David read them (along with his sister Amy and one story read by Ann Magnuson) brings everything to a new level. While the tapes are abridged, the stories he reads, he reads in full. There are different versions than what is read on This American Life, and he sings some different songs than on TAL (in the style of Billie Holiday). Santaland Diaries are even longer than the TAL uncut version. I did prefer Julia Sweeney's rendetion of Merry Christmas(Seasons Greetings) to Our Friends and Family over Ann Magnuson's. This set is 14 hours long (10 Tapes). At the end of most of the books, there is an additional track of David singing or talking/laughing.
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You Can't Kill the Rooster
1. Dezember 2004
Format:Audio CD
Fourteen hours of David Sedaris! Are you kidding me? The DAVID SEDARIS BOX SET is almost too much of a good thing. As I have no doubt stated elsewhere, the best way to experience David Sedaris apart from going to a live reading is to hear his work on the radio or through his audio recordings. The DAVID SEDARIS BOX SET offers the most substantial collection of his audio recordings to date.
Those parts of his live performance which do not translate as well to written text include his Billie Holiday style of singing, the rendition of The Rooster (from "You Can't Kill the Rooster:" Amy does it here, though I've heard David do it to perfection live), and his attempts at speaking French (translated into broken English in "Me Talk Pretty This Day," "Jesus Shaves," and others). All are well represented in this comprehensive collection. This box set includes his work from "Santaland Diaries," "Barrel Fever," "Naked," "Me Talk Pretty One Day," as well as some bonus tracks.
At the current price, this collection is an incomparable value and I highly recommend it for anyone's audio collection.
Jeremy W. Forstadt
Those parts of his live performance which do not translate as well to written text include his Billie Holiday style of singing, the rendition of The Rooster (from "You Can't Kill the Rooster:" Amy does it here, though I've heard David do it to perfection live), and his attempts at speaking French (translated into broken English in "Me Talk Pretty This Day," "Jesus Shaves," and others). All are well represented in this comprehensive collection. This box set includes his work from "Santaland Diaries," "Barrel Fever," "Naked," "Me Talk Pretty One Day," as well as some bonus tracks.
At the current price, this collection is an incomparable value and I highly recommend it for anyone's audio collection.
Jeremy W. Forstadt
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