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When You Are Engulfed in Flames | 
 enlarge | Creator: David Sedaris
Publisher: Hachette Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $34.98
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Rating:  222 reviews
Sales Rank: 4726
Format: Audiobook, Unabridged
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 8
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.3 x 1.6
ISBN: 1600241824
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9781600241826
ASIN: 1600241824
Publication Date: June 3, 2008
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Product Description
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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 boring September 8, 2008
Annette Schilling (USA)
We purchased this to listen to in our car on a long trip and it put us to sleep. Very corny and boring.
I Couldn't Find the Humor! September 7, 2008
Loyd E. Eskildson (Phoenix, AZ.)
Sorry, I must be missing a gene or two or three - cannot for the life of me understand why this book is supposed to be funny. Sedaris deals with the droll and mundane in life, and that's basically all the book is.
 Sedaris is Sedaris September 7, 2008
Gayle Pritchard
Sedaris is Sedaris in this wonderful collection of stories. One thing I like about this collection is that the author, who is about my age, is aging in his writing. As hilarious as his stories about his childhood and young adulthood are, he has become more introspective and quirky, just like the rest of us. His ability to look at and experience the world in everyday life, and present it to us through his eyes is as appealing as ever.
 Not up to Snuff September 7, 2008
P. Hall (gulf coast of florida)
Fans of Sedaris will be disappointed. The trademark sense of humor is sorely missing, replaced by "touching" stories.
 Stoo, Drop and Roll September 6, 2008
Mary Longorio (Orem, UT)
When You Are Engulfed in Flames is filled with more of David Sedaris's essays on pretty much anything that crosses his mind. From his neighbor Helen to the boil on his lower back to wanting to see the dingo at the zoo. Sedaris dwells on his inadequacies to the point of sleep (the reader's). There are some humorous moments, but Sedaris focuses on the negative too much and the comic relief too little.
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