Final expression

After finishing David Sedaris’ Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim I have realized how unusual David’s life is.  Almost everything in his life has gone ary yet he still has had a very successful and liberating life.  He has gone through very unexpected happenings in which I would rather not get into because they are a little inappropriate just as I expected.  My first impression of the book was a little off content wise as I had not expected the book to be as serious yet sarcastic as it was, but the format I had predicted was for the most part correct.  My experience reading this book was mostly a lot of laughing and questioning of Sedaris’ morals, but all in all having a fun time reading his memoir.  Sedaris’ writing style is very unique to himself.  It is the kind of writing that makes you think before you laugh.

In class we have read many other memoirs like Maus, and Night.  Both centered around the Holocaust and both very dark.  I am pleased to say that this book was a lot brighter than both of those memoirs.  In addition, those memoirs were very serious much more so than Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. These memoirs are all similar in the fact that they all deal with a relationship to the author’s families or father.  In summation this book was the fantastic read that I suspected from it and I do look forward to reading more of David Sedaris’ books.

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