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India Press Store - When You Are Engulfed in Flames
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Manufacturer: Hachette Audio
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Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9781600241826
Format: Audiobook
ISBN: 1600241824
Label: Hachette Audio
Manufacturer: Hachette Audio
Number Of Items: 8
Publication Date: 2008-06-03
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Release Date: 2008-06-03
Studio: Hachette Audio
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: When You Are Engulfed in Flames
Comment: This book is just all right. It seems to be a repeat of everything else he has written.... decoratively funny, but not thought provoking.
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Summary: Hilarious
Comment: While I have read many amusing books in the past, my response is usually an inward smile and a mental note to myself of how clever and succinct the description chosen by the author. This book however causes one to laugh out loud. A true gem!
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Summary: 5 Because I Am not an Universalist
Comment: If you don't care for this book (like one star rater swine afterbirth below) then a hand will appear on your wall and write: "Mene Mene Tekhal Upharsin Sedaris!!" {OK I know biblically its a finger but I can't conceive of Diety giving anyone the finger over a book that isn't the Book of Life etc.) and least not a book as lightweight as this. But I could be wrong (it happened before).
Anywize . . being interpreted. "You have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Your sense of humor is given over to the Medes and Persians. You will rott [sic <-- literary shorthand for I am too lazy to correct my spelling] in Hell for all eternity for your slandering of Humorist Sedarus unless you are an annihilist in which case you will be tormented until you get the point and then wiped out in a puff of smoke, thereby making the point moot,
ciao // gurkha
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Summary: Like a letter from a friend
Comment: This book was so enjoyable! Reading it was like receiving a letter from a friend. The style is so laid back and "everyday" that you really feel like you're in a conversation with Sedaris and I actually felt disappointed when it was over. The book is also one of those rare items that you can pick up, read any chapter, and thoroughly connect with the content. You might even find yourself running into another room to read passages to your family! :)
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Summary: funny stuff and good writing
Comment: yeah dubbleplusgood! what a fun read, crazy, zany, and neomisanthropic. cannot say i know what this last word means but---anyway, i have read naked and found it good and this last one is superduper. hut ab! which means in german: hats off to you DS!
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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