Naked

By: David Sedaris

Narrated by: David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris

Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins

Publisher's summary

Welcome to the hilarious, strange, elegiac, outrageous world of David Sedaris. In Naked, Sedaris turns the current mania for the memoir on its proverbial ear, mining the exceedingly rich terrain of his life, his family, and his unique worldview, a sensibility at once take-no-prisoners sharp and deeply charitable. A tart-tongued mother does dead-on imitations of her young son's nervous tics, to the great amusement of his teachers; a stint of Kerouackian wandering is undertaken (of course!) with a quadriplegic companion. Through it all is Sedaris's unmistakable voice, without a doubt one of the freshest in American writing.

©1997 David Sedaris (P)1998, 2001 Time Warner AudioBooks

Critic reviews

"Sidesplitting." (The New York Times Book Review)
"Genuinely funny, at times hilarious....Makes for a smashing use of audio as a unique entertainment medium....Highly likable and spirited throughout...makes a case for audio as its own special form." (Publishers Weekly)
"Sedaris is a gifted satirist with an uncanny knack for re-creating dialogue and revealing fantasies....Brutally honest and brilliantly eloquent, Sedaris is positively tonic." (Booklist)

Hilarious as usual

once again mr Sedaris made me laugh til I died then died laughing again! cool.

I love finding someone w/ a twisted sense of humor

David Sedaris -- the one and only. I'm a 30-year-old woman in Nebraska and can't tell you how difficult it is to find someone with the same, twisted sense of humor that I have yielded.

I love David Sedaris

As usual, this story was hilarious! And also as usual, his reading made it even better!

laughing.

I take my laughs where I can get them these days. belly laughs,now they are few and far between. david sedaris gives me belly laughs!
I identify with david and a lot of his characters which provides those belly laughs. the narrating was especially good in this book!

Laugh out loud funny!

If you could sum up Naked in three words, what would they be?

Funny
Masterful
Humorous

What did you like best about this story?

I liked everything about this book!

What does David Sedaris and Amy Sedaris bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Amy's impersonation of her parents, Ya-Ya was outstanding!

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

YES!!!!!

loved.

love love LOVE. this story was so fun to listen too, I highly recommend listening to it, rather than reading it yourself.

David Sedaris outrageously funny and emotionally intelligent

What can I say? He is the absolute best and Michael three favourite! Very cute sense of observation and willing to admit all kinds of stuff that most of us would not! He is a complete gift

LOL

I have just started listening to audio books. My first three selections were by David Sedaris. I drive 3 hours between Emerald Isle and Durham twice a week. I find myself laughing out loud during the drive and arriving at my destination seemingly in the blink of an eye. It feels so good to laugh out loud!

Good early Sedaris

Much like Sedaris's other works, Nake is funny and disturbing. It's not laugh-outloud funny like Me Talk Pretty or even Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim but it's still bound to make you laugh

abridged

Where does Naked rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Naked is a wonderful autobiography. the story is funny, enlightening and above all entertaining.

What did you like best about this story?

i loved that David and his sister where part of the performance, it makes it more real

Any additional comments?

only negative thing i have to say is that it is abridged, and it missed a lot if important chapters originally in the book.