Me Talk Pretty One Day - David Sedaris

It’s funny, isn’t it, how you can put a famous name behind a piece of artwork, or a new book, and it automatically becomes something worth seeing or reading, even though had it been produced by a unknown person, it might have been dubbed not worth a second glance (or, in other words cr*p). This book isn’t bad though, in fact it’s very good. It’s just the style that made me think of this point though – when I was at school I would have been admonished (in the days before I knew that 3 syllable words existed) for flitting between 1st and 3rd person, and from past to present to future tenses, all within one story. Sedaris, though, gets ...  Read the complete review