Book to avoid...

EJMG

so it's not a baby book... and normally I think David Sedaris is really funny... but I bought his Holidays on Ice  book of short stories and I was in for a creepy surprise...

if you buy it, don't read the second story... just skip it... here's the spoiler alert which I totally wasn't expecting.... a baby ends up being put in a washing machine and killed... yea, not funny, not christmasy, and just plain icky.  I couldn't sleep for hours last night after reading that story

GirlGenius

So skip that story and get straight to the point of that book: The SantaLand Diaries. That is one of the funniest things he's ever written - it made his career. (and then go read "Jesus Shaves" from Me Talk Pretty One Day.)

Sedaris is NOT a very nice person, but he is danged funny. 

EJMG

Oh I'm still reading the rest of the book... I figured he would only kill off one child per collection so he has to be done with that now.

~CoCo~

Huh. I read that when it first came out, but I don't recall that at all... I have a very warped sense of humor, and I've loved everything from David Sedaris, but I just finished When You Are Engulfed In Flames, and I thought it was sub-par for him... I agree w/the pp though, Holidays on Ice and Me Talk Pretty One Day cemented his iconic status, along w/Barrel Fever.

His story about his brother Paul (aka the Rooster) and his potty mouth cracks me up just thinking about it. I gave my brother all of these books as I finished them, and to this day we'll occasionally quote it. "That sh!t don't mean f*ck to me"...

::running to soap out my own mouth::

Mrs.Hizzo

OMG, I cried my way through Santaland Diaries. It was that funny.  I also loved Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim, that book was hysterical.