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Title: HUGE disappointment! Sedaris fans, beware!
Review: I'm a big Sedaris fan and was really looking forward to this book. Even though I knew the short stories were not written by him, I figured he probably has excellent taste and that at least some of the stories might be similar to his own work. WRONG. I slogged through about four of the stories, plus just the first few pages of about three others, and then gave up and returned this to the library. All of the stories were dismally boring and pointless. They reminded me of the stuff English teachers make you read -- loads and loads of descriptive detail, but NOTHING happens. I'm sorry, call me a philistine, but I like something with a plot or at least some sort of "arc" or character development -- not reading two pages devoted to how a character puts cream and sugar in his coffee. Some of these stories really read like isolated chapters pulled out of novels -- they really didn't stand alone at all.
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