Excellent laugh-out-loud audiobook

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	• Naked Time Warner AudioBooks, 2004 average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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Naked is a laugh out loud collection of autobiographical short-stories, and happens to be my favorite of all his books. Naked is most enjoyable in audiobook form due to the narration by the author. Sedaris gained national attention after reading his essays on NPR. His understatedly dramatic readings compelled him to fame, and hearing the author read his own writing is a true treat. Sedaris' inflections and voice imitations further amplify his cast of already quirky characters.

His eccentric family and sardonic outlook on life will keep you laughing from start to finish. Nothing escapes Sedaris' sarcastic eye as he shreds apart his banal existence in the Southern suburbs of Charlotte. Highlights of the book include the title story on visiting a rural nudist colony, and "plague of ticks" which shows how he coped, or rather hit himself repeatedly in the head with his own shoes and obsessively licked light switches, as a child with OCD.

My only criticism would be the inclusion of Amy Sedaris (comedian, actress, and the author's sister) in the book's narration. In many of the stories she narrates the voices of the female characters, and her voice seems pasted in and awkwardly breaks the narrative flow. She also sounds exactly the same for most of the multiple characters she portrays and one gets tired of her forced and overly youthful Southern accent.
-J. Teel

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Excellent laugh-out-loud audiobook

About 3 hours in length, hilarious recounting of the author's childhood, self-deprecation at its best. Recommend to anyone.

A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the company of lunatics. At this soulful and moving moment, he brushes cigarette ashes from his pubic hair and wonders what it all means. This remarkable journey into his own life follows a path of self- effacement and a lifelong search for identity leaving himself both under suspicion and over dressed.

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