David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure

David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure

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If you were lucky enough to have caught a performance on David Sedaris's most recent sold-out, 34-city tour, you already know thatDavid Sedaris Live For Your Listening Pleasureis a must-have album! If you didn't hear it live and in person, then you're in for a treat-hilarious brand-new recordings from performances in Denver, New York, Durham, LA, and Atlanta, in one convenient audiobook collection, on sale November 24 for only $17.98. From the bold feral rabbits of his French backyard to the eating habits of a carnivorous bird Down Under,Live For Your Listening Pleasuretakes listeners on a veritable tour of natural wonders, beginning with a fable, "Cat and Baboon," and moving on to the peculiarly American habitat of the "big-box" store. "Sedaris's sparkling essays always shimmer more brightly when read aloud by the author. And his expert timing, mimicry and droll asides are never more polished than during live performances in front of an audience."Publishers Weekly, Starred Review -When You Are Engulfed in Flames Track Listing: 1: Cat and Baboon (Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre in Denver, Colorado) 2-5: Author, Author (Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City) 6-8: Innocence Abroad (Durham Performing Arts Center, in Durham, North Carolina) 9-13 Laugh, Kookaburra (Royce Hall, UCLA in Los Angeles, California) 14-16: Diary Entries (Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta, Georgia)

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  Reviewed by Marianne V. | see all reviews by Marianne V.

  21/08/2011

  David Sedaris: Live For Your Listening Pleasure consists of David Sedaris reading five of his essays. Cat and Baboon is one of his animal fables, a cat being groomed at the baboons salon before a party; Author, Author details some of Sedariss book tours, including a hilarious visit to CostCo; Innocence Abroad, a hysterical piece on people who pronounce foreign names authentically; Laugh, Kookaburra is an amusing description of his visit to Australia, his interaction with a kookaburra and the childhood reminiscences that ensued; and Diary Entries, random diary entries detailing some more of his interactions with book tour attendants, and observations on his travels. Sedaris manages to do hilarious and poignant at the same time. Reading Sedaris is unadulterated pleasure: listening to him read his work doubles the pleasure.
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