I agree that the audio quality is poor on this audiobook as mentioned before and it somewhat detracted from my enjoyment of it. It sounds like it was recorded on a cassette and the playback has a lot of machine noise. I still enjoyed the naratives; however, I thought "Flames" was better.

Some parts were a bit on the edge for.
Some Parts were funny.
Some parts should be rated "R"

Perhaps the success of his previous books made someone think that his fans would enjoy his sardonic tales of growing up gay in a very disfunctional family. What I hoped would be wry observations come across as detatched and bored, or even self-pitying. Try his other books.

I have read David Sedaris' work and this is my first experience with one of his audible titles. It is absolutly hilarious. Much more enjoyable than reading alone. The impression of his brother Paul is priceless. I laughed until I cried; literally. He is very open about his feelings as a gay man and I gained a new appreciation for some of the predicaments of his lifestyle. Great audio book. I'm planning on downloading some of his other work that I've already read to get the impressions of his siblings.

The random, humorous thoughts of a pretentious gay person. It's disappointing that there isn't some depth and insight about something or anything. I did enjoy the book though after done, it leaves you with nothing.

This book is kind of funny. I'm not sure I would give as much praise as this book seems to get. The thing that killed it for me is the reader. His voice is the kind that I can't listen to for any lengh of time. Make sure you listen to the sample first. If the reader/author's voice doesn't get on your nerves you might like it. I never finished it.

This book was advertised as being humorous, but I found it to be a bleak look into a dysfunctional family and not humorous at all. After about 1 hour of listening I gave up.

You might shoot milk out of your nose. My copy cuts off early, no explanation for this I could find.

This book never engaged me. Perhaps reading it would be okay, but listening to it was just plain boring. I couldn't even finish it. While I have read some of his books and laughed, this just failed to amuse me at all.

In listening to this book, I kept waiting for something remotely redeeming to be introduced into an on slaught of illustrations about the lowest type of human behavior - but it never happened. Kind of depressing.