Tales of an Unserious Truthteller

De: David Conte

Narrado por: Ed Fairbanks

A collection of thirty humorous personal stories and essays by David Conte, including a penned letter to author David Sedaris and his snarky response, visiting a nude spa in Germany, a toilet catastrophe at an NYC apartment, working as a janitor one summer at his old high school, and getting his car burglarized while on vacation in Sicily.

©2025 David Conte (P)2025 David Conte

A Series of Unfortunate (and humorous) events!

I planned to listen to the first 10-15 minutes whilst tidying the house but couldn’t turn it off! A series of very funny and unfortunate stories that had me gripped! Good fun!

So Many Entertaining Stories

I really enjoyed listening to David Conte’s collection of amusing short stories! Excellent for when I didn’t have an hour to get immersed into long chapter books but still wanted some entertainment while doing quick chores. Great variety of topics kept my brain engaged! Bonus: The narrator has a fantastic voice that added to the experience. I would definitely buy more books by this team and am hoping there’ll be a book two with follow-up on his hilarious poetry exchange.

Sticky situations.. Funny circumstances.. Cute moments.. And so is life.

There are unserious ways to go through life. Would that lead to unconventional situations? You bet.

Here are some slices of actual life, so don't expect a punchline at the end of every story.. but rather weird moments with a smiley feeling.

Meandering multi-country & multi-cultural mishaps

There's something refreshing when a person opens up and shared some of their personal life with you. There's something extraordinary when an author shares some of their personal disasters with the world. David Conte regales us with a number of public and private, personal and public missteps that he has encountered or orchestrated. Each one offers a chance to reflect on our own similar experiences, and to consider whether we would have handled the situation in a comparable way. I found the narration wanting for a bit of loudness stabilization, but Ed Fairbanks was successful in portraying David's chaotic and humorous outcomes. [Disclosure: I received this title for free and listened at 1.8x.]

Hilarious

The vignettes of David’s life which he has shared are great. It’s the stories that we all share that “we’ll all laugh at someday”. And it caught me off guard when I started listening because I was walking down the hallway of my building and immediately started laughing with his first story. I needed the laughter today.