Out of the penalty box
David Sedaris is back on the readable list. I had a problem with one of his pieces and it turned me off so much that I had to stop reading him and I likely won't go back and read Holiday on Ice. It was his holiday letter and while I realize it was fiction and there isn't anything wrong with the piece it just didn't sit well with me at all.
So "Dress Your Family in Cordoroy and Denim" was so hilarious. It was so good I ran straight to target. Ya well I know what you're thinking. He shops at target? yes it's true. Why would I run straight to target? Well I was in St. George UT and it's that or walmart and we must all draw the line somewhere.
walmart... thats the line.
So "Dress Your Family in Cordoroy and Denim" was so hilarious. It was so good I ran straight to target. Ya well I know what you're thinking. He shops at target? yes it's true. Why would I run straight to target? Well I was in St. George UT and it's that or walmart and we must all draw the line somewhere.
walmart... thats the line.
posted by J.R. at 7:37 AM
2 Comments:
Sounds good! Would you be willing to lend it to me to read when you're done?
I can appreciate why you would hate that story. Benjamin and I were listening to Holidays on Ice in the car on Thanksgiving. We gave his parents a ride to the ferry and in the car Benjamin asks if they minded listening to David Sedaris. They said no, of course they didn't mind. So we turn it back on and proceed to be bombarded, even horrified, by a story that results in a baby being killed in a washing machine. Interesting timing (with parents in the car); luckily his parents are very open-minded and accustomed to dark humor.
I agree it was in poor taste and I can't say I really understood the point of the story (so my tolerance for heinous violence is less). It also seemed odd and out-of-character for Sedaris to insert a fiction story with a central character unlike himself into the middle of a book, even a career, of auto-biographical stories. It was confusing, unexpected, and yucky.
Don't give up on Sedaris, though. Everything else I've read of his so far has been hilarious and though occasionally disturbing, isn't grotesque like that was.
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