Me Talk Pretty One Day

I had a 3 hour flight journey ahead and asked bro to suggest me a good book from his library collection. Bro suggested “Me Talk Pretty One Day” by David Sedaris. I was like “Well, the title sounds kind of stupid”. Bro replied: “Read it and then get back to me”.

At the end of the book I did two things:

1. Hit myself in the head for not reading this book before. Yes, its totally brilliant.

2. In love with David Sedaris

Brutally honest, funny, witty, f*&^&*^^%*$ brilliant — These are some of the adjectives I can use. But more than that the book opened me to a whole new way of thinking. We are all trapped in a “traditional” mode of life. For instance, if I say I visited Paris, the first question would be “Did you visit the Louvre or the Eiffel Tower?”. However when you read the chapter of the author’s visit to France, not only was I laughing loud in the aircraft, it made me pause and think.

The book is auto-biographical. The author talks about his family, his inability to understand science and arts, his phase of “drug” addiction, his boyfriends, his life at Paris. Each of the experience is made into a chapter. He is so honest about being gay, having a problem with speech, drugs, alcohol, smoking etc.,

While I was reading the book, I would go like: “Wow, this has happened to me so many times but I was always shy to admit it”. I was laughing out loud almost continuously while reading the book.

“Me Talk Pretty One Day” — One of my favorites Also, I would like to meet a person like David Sedaris. His ideas, his humour –> “wow” (Did I say I was in love?? )