Check Out Themes And Variations Fashioned By David Sedaris Compiled As Hardbound

so hilariously vulgar! Books,
Bras .
Fiftydollar bills . ranch dressing . dented can goods . asking doesnt cost a thing,
looking for somebody who is poor
Three raisins stuck to the bottom of your airline check in bag,
A package of Marboros, . .
Greasy hair guys with missing front teeth, . .
A mental ill pass,
The audience chooses what they want to focus on, . .
and . .
Im not a bad man,
Take “THAT” GOD
Badass Hilarious!!!! I love laughing out loud, Recounting various book tours, thispage essay is great fun,


Amazon Prime Kindle readers can get this for free and it's so short at aboutpages and I think that includes the author profile at the end that I'd struggle to justify buying it.


I had it on a free 'loan' and decided to clean up my loan list to make space for some new reads.


I LOVE David Sedaris, I've seen him live he's so understated and so laughoutloud funny that I really recommend booking if you ever get the chance, I had the pleasure of getting to talk to him before the show recommendation get him to sign before, not after, as the lines are much shorter.
I didn't know about his bad experience of being snubbed by an author, but I can confirm that for the short time you're with him, he makes you feel like you're the centre of his universe.
I apologised that I was probably going to cough through his set and he drew a swollen uvula in the front of my book with a label saying 'Your uvula'.
It looked oddly obscene. He then told me stories about weird names he'd been asked to sign books for,

His set that year included the joy of women removing their bras can't say I've ever done that I just buy ones that fit properly and about men putting strange things up their bottoms.
I smiled to myself as I read and remembered,

There were a few new bits that I enjoyed the distribution of money to poor people turned into a very Sedarian challenge.


Honestly, this guy can do no wrong in my eyes although I still live with the disappointment of the Santaland Diaries,

It'll take you just a few minutes to read and they'll be excellent minutes, Go for it. Always entertaining and funny. Onlypages long, but still full of funny stories of women taking their bras off in busses, and men shoving things in their behind.
I admit feeling a little disappointed in the past after reading a David Sedaris book I had high expectations for, This time I went with the audio version read by the author himself and I highly recommend this, Every time I have listened to an author read their own work I have enjoyed it very much!

Very short book full of lots of laughs.
A nice laugh at the end of the day :

Actual ,/ I love David. I have every single one of his books, I've seen him three times,

I'm a bit disappointed here,

I guess I thought I was buying a real book or at least as real as a Kindle experience can be so when I settled down for an evening of uncontrolled laughter, I found myself frowning afterminutes of reading.


As I went back to the cover, I then noticed "An Essay, "

It wasn't a total waste because I did smile a couple of times, I've listened to thispage new story by Sedaris twice so far and have laughed several times, You can get it for,but if you do, you have to get the audible version of him reading it himself, He's one of the best readers in the world, with great timing, and I laughed out loud a few times, I admired it the second time even more and suspect I will listen to and love it even more, In a sense, it's standard Sedaris, but that still means one of the best,

He begins by talking aboutwhen he moved to Chicago and loved reading stories in the public library, and going to readings by various authors in favorite bookstores.
Stories, good stories, one theme, We are asked to reflect on those and why they are good,

But the central theme is about the relationship between readers and audiences, One time he went to a book signing and he was ignored he made a commitment after that: If he ever was in that position as author, he would pay attention.
And this is where many of his good stories have come from, Sedaris would seem to be a crazy magnet, People tell him the strangest things, which he carries from town to town and they just multiply: One woman tells him, "you made me put my bra back on!" since she had gone home, relaxed but changed her mind to come out to listen to him.
But then he tells that story from town to town and asks other women about their bras and incorporates those good stories in his work.
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Sedaris always pushes the offensive a bit, as in hearing and retelling stories he has heard about objects people insert into themselves, but this is also funny, a good story, and he knows it.
The best stuff is about giving money to the poor, especially now that he is "wellff, " Here his variation on that theme spins into how interesting people are, and he's never mean about them, And he's selfdeprecating, always, which helps make him, as always, likable, Which helps in making a good story, Themes and Variation an Amazon Prime original story is another great essay from David Sedaris that is perceptive and humorous, Sedaris sees things, people and situations in his own unique way/ He is always a great way to spend a little time and break.
This is another Sedaris gem, When Amazon emails you at:am to say that David Sedaris has something new out, you one click buy it, Even if its.forpages. I dont make the rules,

This was short and snarky and felt like a tease, I found it a bit mean spirited, He has times when he goes too far in that direction for my liking, But at the same time, its very clear he knows that about himself and he often mocks himself more than anyone else, So I still enjoyed it,

It doesnt seem fair for Sedaris to offer us one, tiny tale, But Ill take what I can get, And anxiously await his next full length book, whenever that may be,

Because I love him,.
A funny and entertaining look into the life of an author, its short, but well worth reading, This was exactly the sort of book I needed to read when I read it, Short, funny and contemporary. After a few heavy classics, the stresses of covidlock down and a debilitating ankle injury I needed something uplifting, light and positive!

Sedaris is a very funny man.
He is also an excellent writer, In this essay, Sedaris shares the quirks of undertaking a book tour, After a bad experience at a book signing in his youth where the featuring author was really rude, Sedaris pledged that if he was ever to become a successful author, he would never snub any of his fans who turned up to his readings instead he would do his best to be personal and connect with each person who made the effort to come and see him.
What ensues is a hilarious account of many of his surprising experiences meeting fans, It is also a revealing study of the unusual relationship and obligations between authors and their audiences,

I love his unequivocal honesty and down to earth tone, He seems to be the kind of unselfpossessed author you could have a cappuccino with in a cool book store café,
The only reason to be disappointed by David Sedariss Themes and Variations is for its length: a single essay instead of as I had assumed a whole book of them.
Its available via Amazons Kindle only, I bought it and for another couple of bucks bought the audio version as well,

Both are delightful.

Thispaged essay is about Sedariss book tours and his interactions with his audience/fans, He is famous at least as far as Im concerned for the effort he makes to sign the book of every person in line and also to actually speak to them.
Hes the Bruce Springsteen of book tours, Ive seen Sedaris on four or five of his book tours and can personally attest to his generosity of time, In Pittsburgh, a friend and I waited about two hours to get our books signed and speak with him, It was midnight by the time we got back to our carjust in time to rescue it from the garage before it closed for the night.
In this essay, Sedaris reveals he takes so much time with his fans because he had a very bad experience on the other side of the table and was basically ignored by the author he had been excited to see he does not name the authortoo bad.
He then vowed that if he ever became successful enough to have book signings, he would talk to everyone, His book events are like his essays: funny, biting, and not appealing to everyones sense of humor, Ive discussed his Fitbit obsession with him, a garbage truck being named after him, and how my friend and I thought about stalking him in England when we were both there he told me we should have tried.
Its a bit nervewracking to talk to an author you admire, but Sedaris is aware of this and manages to put his fans at ease.


Themes and Variations is a short, funny essay about the themes his tours often take, from women removing their bras as soon as they get home to the objects men shove up their asses.
I remember both of those themes from events I attended, Im not usually a fan of audio books, but I love listening to Sedaris read his essays because his voice highly distinctive brings an extra dimension of humor to his words.

Themes and Variations is an Amazon Original Stories nonfiction essay by the delightful David Sedaris about his book tours, And, like a lot of Sedaris essays, this one is quite amusing,

His tours each seem to have their own themes that randomly and naturally develop, In one, he discovers that women remove their bras as soon as their workday is over, something every woman he meets tells him they do.
In another, he collects jokes and in another he hears numerous anecdotes about the myriad and bizarre things men shove up their bums,

The jokes are kinda cheesy and forgettable and the bra stuff/anal insertions arent that novel a concept but theres some fun to be had there.
I particularly liked Sedaris summation: “If women come home from work and take their bras off, their husbands return and look for things they can force up their asses.
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The best part of the essay was Sedaris being asked by his media escort in Milwaukee that shed been givenby her pastor to give to someone who looked like they needed it before.
pm that day that time specifically because of a Bible verse but she was busy and could Dave do it for her So off Sedaris goes, in search of the homeless where else in the local library!

Of course its not quite so straightforward for Sedaris, and he even encounters problems when he takes pity on a homeless man picking up cigarette butts and buys him a pack of smokes.


Themes and Variations is a cute little piece that has a couple funny moments in it but its not among David Sedaris best.
David Sedaris opens with his experience standing in line waiting for a author to sign a book, just to be in front of an admired person even if just for a second, and the betrayal he felt when given short shrift by a favorite.
Deciding then that he would always engage with a person who lined up for his signature, Having stood in several of these lines, waiting for Mr, Sedaris to sign a book, I know he does, In one case, he even had stickers he affixed to the page he put a picture of a deer on my sister in law's copy, calling her a "dear".
He didn't care that the line, longest I ever saw in that bookstore, wended through to the coffee shop and out into the parking lot.
I'll read anything he writes, He never disappoints. El humor negro suele ser mi favorito, pero de la mano de Sedaris se torna más en cinismo egocentrico y menos en humor.
Nada como un libro de no ficción para darte cuenta que un autor no te agrada como persona, Fun, probably will not remember that I read it two years from now, A fun little taste of Sedaris at his best hilarious mixed with the bizarre, Just wish it had been longer, Now I finally understand why he always has long and fruitful discussions with his audiences after his readings, while signing his books, This essay was only aboutpages long but the ratio of genuine laughs to pages was very high, More thoughts will also be shared on my Youtube channel! sitelink Subscribe to my channel!

A short and funny book that chronicles David's encounters with interesting people during his book tours.
Looking forward to reading his other books!,stars. Short but sweet. If you're a fan of David Sedaris I highly recommend this short audio original about book tours, In less than half an hour he had me laughing out loud quite a few times, and towards the end smiling with tears in my eyes which I think is his specialty.


Has anyone listened to sitelinkTheft by Finding: Diaries, and if so how was it,stars

I am not sure if I would have bought this because it is so short, but I am glad I could listen to this on loan.
This authors books really work exceptionally well on audio,

If you are not familiar with his work, I would suggest starting with sitelinkMe Talk Pretty One Day, if you are already a fan then you will find this a treat.
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