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When You Are Engulfed in Flames | 
 enlarge | Creator: David Sedaris
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $34.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  238 reviews
Sales Rank: 2382
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.3 x 1.6
ISBN: 1600241824
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9781600241826
ASIN: 1600241824
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
Once again, David Sedaris brings together a collection of essays so uproariously funny and profoundly moving that his legions of fans will fall for him once more. He tests the limits of love when Hugh lances a boil from his backside, and pushes the boundaries of laziness when, finding the water shut off in his house in Normandy, he looks to the water in a vase of fresh cut flowers to fill the coffee machine. From armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds to the awkwardness of having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a sleeping fellow passenger on a plane, David Sedaris uses life's most bizarre moments to reach new heights in understanding love and fear, family and strangers. Culminating in a brilliantly funny (and never before published) account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection will be avidly anticipated.
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 seemed somewhat different...but not worse than others. October 4, 2008
This was a nice read--but, a little different from other David Sedaris books...not in a bad way. This book is about David's adult life...
Fabulous! October 2, 2008
I really was surprised by how much I enjoyed this. A few times, I laughed aloud- quite unusual for me if I am alone reading. Honestly, I was sorry when I finished the book-
 So sorry for his loss October 2, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Cleetus: My appologies in advance to the late David Sedaris for what I have to say about his book.
Bo: I know what you mean, brother. It's never kind to tarnish the good name of the dead.
Cleetus: Poor fellah, if only he had the horse sense to duck and roll, he'da put out those flames quicker and saved himself a heap of problems.
Bo: That's the trouble with today's younguns. Whenever their on fire, they just don't know whut to do. Jest jump in the rainbarrel, for Pete's sake! That's whut I always do.
Cleetus: Now, about this here book ... Any fellah who's not got enough horse sense to roll in the dirt when he's on fire shurly has not got enough smarts to write a whole book. That's why I didn't get past the front cover.
Bo: You're right about that, brother. I jest don't think this was the book for us.
Cleetus: Nope.
Bo: But we still give it five stars out of five stars in this here review ... hey, why not. We're swell fellahs.
Cleetus: Git yer copy today, guys of America ... in memorium.
 Huh? October 2, 2008
After seeing some of the reviews on Amazon, I'm wondering if I even read the same book as everyone else. Everyone touts David Sedaris as this great comedic writer, and raves that his stream-of-consciousness short stories are hilarious or poignant by turns. There was the odd humorous moment here and there, but I can't say I found this book "laugh-out-loud funny" at all. Mostly I found it to be a lot of pointless rambling in a person's mind...which is probably fairly realistic, but not particularly interesting to me. Maybe I'm just not cut out for the short story style of writing.
don't make assumptions October 1, 2008
to those of you reviewing this book and other David Sedaris books, please don't assume as some of you have noted, that your older Aunt, mother or grandmother shouldn't read this for fear of being shocked. Come on now, getting older does not mean one's sense of humor is diminished.
The book is funny, as are all his books and yes even us old women get it!
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