Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) (Audiobook)

from Juva

Selections from the author's diary. This is a bit different and less satisfying than reading a collection of his stories or essays, but it gave me a greater insight into his life and family. A little bit more intimate. I definitely laughed aloud a few times and occasionally snorted in surprise. U...

from etxgardener

Reading anyone's diary is a voyaristic exercise, but reading David Sedaris' diaries is especially so. By turns both hilarious and horrifying the diaries take you through Sedaris' life from when he was just an unknown weird-o to his success as a humorist. Most diaries become impossibly dull as the...

from nivramkoorb

David Sedaris is a great essayist and his books are among the funniest and clever that I have ever read. His diaries should not be the first thing that you read by him. By first reading some of his previous books you have some awareness of the characters that he references in his diaries. What is...

from Gingermama

I had never read any of David Sedaris's work before picking up this audio book, but I saw that he's from Raleigh and thought it would be interesting. Some of these diary entries are laugh-out-loud funny while others are sad, and a few I could've done without (the spiders). Through it all, the aut...

from rglossne

David Sedaris on audio is a true treat. Sedaris began keeping a diary in 1977. His early entries reveal a young man adrift, hitch hiking back and forth across the country, picking fruit, painting. and cleaning houses for a living, all the while doing too many drugs and grappling with his sexualit...