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عالی بود . مدتهاست دارم کتاب دن آرارم از شلوخف را میخونم . کتاب عالی و سنگینیه .برای متعادل شدن اون کتاب سنگین در طول روز واقعا به این کتاب شاد و خوب نیاز داشتم.
کتاب طنز گیرا و خوبی داشت.من کنسخه صوتی کتاب را داشتم . بعضی جاها توی اتوبوس اینقدر میخندیدم که همه برمیگشتن نگاهم میکردن. من که خیلی لذت بردم. بازم از سداریس خواهم خوند.

جزو اولین کتاب هایی بود که
دوستم بعد از سال های متوالی کنکورم بهم داد.
منم با خوندنش و البته چندتا کتاب قرضی دیگ
دوباره برگشتم به دنیای کتاب ها
(و البته این دفعه برگشت ام پرقدرت تر بودم (به نظر خودم البته :دی

بالاخره یه روزی قشنگ حرف می‌زنم مجموعه خاطرات زندگی دیوید سداریس نویسنده‌ی کتاب هست که با طنزی موقعیتی نوشته شده. کتاب به دو فصل تقسیم شده که دقیقا ضرورت تقسیم‌بندی کتاب به این دو فصل رو درک نکردم اما به طور کلی ماجرای داستان‌های فصل اول که بیشتر خاطرات مرتبط با خانواده را نوشته بود را بیشتر دوست داشتم. جسارت نویسنده قابل تحسین هست و خیلی نقص‌ها رو به زبان کاملا طنز بیان می‌کند.
این کتاب من را به یاد خاطرات کتاب عطر سنبل عطر کاج انداخت و خب آن یکی را خیلی بیشتر دوست داشتم که احتمالا بعد فرهنگی در این نکته نقش زیادی دارد.
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جملات ماندگار کتاب:
رویاپردازی‌ها دقیقا برای همین هستند: اجازه می‌دهند از بخش خفت‌بار قضیه صرف‌نظر کنی و یک‌راست بروی آن بالا.
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بعد از این همه سال پدرم هنوز نفهمیده که ما، بچه‌هایش، جذب آدم‌هایی می‌شویم که او یک عمر ما را ازشان ترسانده.
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وقتی که یه چیزی زد حالتو گرفت فقط بگو گور باباش و از شکلاتای نکبت بنداز بالا.

از چندسال پیش که کار دانشجوییم تدریس زبان شد، این عادت رو پیدا کردم که در ذهنم کتابای ترجمه شده رو به انگلیسی برمی گردونم و سعی می کنم سردربیارم جملات اصلی نویسنده چی بودن. درمورد این کتاب، طنز آمریکایی به حدی مختص فرهنگ آمریکایی بود که ناچار شدم حقیقتا بعضی فصل ها رو به زبان اصلی بخونم تا درست و حسابی شوخی ها رو بفهمم.
با این که درک تمام شوخی های استندآپی نویسنده برام ساده نبود، از خوندنش لذت بردم

My, my, how far Mr. Sedaris has come. From raging about the rise of computers in this collection, to raving about his Fitbit in his latest collection. This essay, Nutcracker.com, now seems sadly outdated, along with those tape players and walkmans so frequently mentioned (not his fault, surely). Too many essays about learning French, and being a stupid américain, but given that it gives the collection its title, what did I expect?

There were a handful of excellent essays, and a few that were rather grating. Perhaps I've just had my fill of Sedaris? Based on the essays I enjoyed, I'm starting to think that I like reading about his quirky family more than I enjoy reading about him (with one or two exceptions).

A brief perusal of this book’s reviews is enough to demonstrate that people hold strong opinions on David Sedaris. Though five star reviews dominate, four of the top ten reviews give him only one or two stars, and all of these have triple digit votes (one has nearly one thousand). They accuse him of being mean and bitchy. They complain that his subject matter is boring and that he isn’t funny. Sedaris seems to have in common with Hilary Clinton that those who don’t like him really, really don’t like him.

Now sure, Sedaris can be mean and bitchy, but that’s honestly more of a feature than a glitch. It’s the spice that seasons his snarky humor. And yeah, if you don’t care for snark, you probably won’t find him funny: feel free to move along. As for his material being boring? Well, think of Sedaris as a far less verbose American Proust (the smell of his mother’s ever present cigarette taking the place of madeleines dipped in tea). He’s taken the minutia of his life — his odd family, growing up gay and neurotic in the South, his disastrous college art career — he has obsessed on them, has reshaped them, and has meticulously recreated these mundanities into something meaningful. Snarky as he is, his stories speak to us about the importance and the pain of family, about taking ourselves too seriously, about repurposing pain into humor. If you listen closely, these stories aren’t just about Sedaris — they touch things we all feel. And we laugh, because laughter is so much easier than tears.

As for this particular collection, I think it is one of his strongest. Whether he’s talking about speech therapy in school for his sissy lisp, (Go Carolina), pets, parents and death (The Youth in Asia), or his difficulty learning French after moving to France (Me Talk Pretty One Day) many of these pieces are outstanding and all of them are solid. I particularly laughed my way through his recounting of his failed college attempt at becoming an artist (Twelve Moments in the Life of an Artist):

”After a few months in my parents’ basement I took an apartment near the state university where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things is dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.”

And as I say in all of my Sedaris reviews, listen to the audiobook. His pieces are written to be performed, and he always narrates his own books. (A couple of these pieces are performed with a live audience.) Sedaris singing TV jingles in a pitch perfect Billie Holiday voice alone is worth the price of the audiobook!

This was everything I never knew I needed!
4.5 stars

Me No Think This Book is Very Funny


I have several audio books by Sedaris on my kindle. I can say that I didn’t like the one about the squirrel and chipmunk and deleted it after listening to it briefly. I just don’t like talking animals, which is why I disliked Animal Farm even though there was a message in it. You can imagine how I disliked cartoons at the movies when I was a child. When they were on it was time for me to go to the lobby and buy popcorn, Milk Duds, Flicks, and a cola that kept my mother broke because I had to go to the dentist often.Inow have what I will call Mercury Mouth.

At least this this book had no talking animals in it, just animals that I wished I could have saved from being in Sedaris’ parent’s household.

And then there was his father. I wish I could have saved Sedaris from him too. His father adds nothing to this book, because his stories about him are JUST not funny. One story that is about his father that stuck in my mind was when he talked about how his dad, upon seeing someone walking their dog, would yell out, “Are you walking him or is he walking you? Ha. Ha. Ha.” I have had men say this to me when they saw me walking my own dog, and I always hated it, but I learned to train my dogs to not pull on the leash, eventually. My thought now is that I should have released my dog and said, “Sic ‘em.” Or to be more kind, “Go say hello to the man,” as my dog runs up and jumped on him.

So now, if you choose to like my review, I will imagine that it is because I am giving you a link to to a much better review of this book that was written by a man who can tell a good story:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

Me talk Pretty one day, David Sedaris

Me Talk Pretty One Day, published in 2000, is a bestselling collection of essays by American humorist David Sedaris.

The book is separated into two parts.

The first part consists of essays about Sedaris’s life before his move to Normandy, France, including his upbringing in suburban Raleigh, North Carolina, his time working odd jobs in New York City, and a visit to New York from a childhood friend and her bumpkinish girlfriend.

The second section, "Deux", tells of Sedaris’s move to Normandy with his partner Hugh, often drawing humor from his efforts to live in France without speaking the French language and his frustrated attempts to learn it. Prior to publication, several of the essays were read by the author on the Public Radio International program, This American Life.

تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز بیست و نهم ماه دسامبر سال 2013میلادی

عنوان: بالاخره یه روزی قشنگ حرف میزنم؛ اثر دیوید سداریس؛ مترجم: پیمان خاکسار؛ مشخصات نشر تهران، نشر چشمه، 1391؛ در 234ص؛ اندازه 5/21س.م در 5/14س.م، شابک 9786002291134؛ چاپ چهاردهم 1399؛ چاپ شانزدهم 1400؛ موضوع: داستانهای طنزآمیز نویسندگان ایالات متحده آمریکا - سده 21م

فهرست: مقدمه مترجم: یک: بتاز کارولینا؛ رویای غول آسا عرضه های کوتوله؛ مهندسی ژنتیک؛ دوازده لحظه در زندگی هنرمند؛ تو نمیتوانی خروس را بکشی؛ جوانان در آسیا؛ منحنی یادگیری؛ پسر گنده؛ جهش بزرگ رو به جلو؛ غذای ویژه ی امروز؛ شهر فرشتگان؛ درخشان مثل الماس؛ ناتکراکر دات کام؛

دو: دوباره دیروز میبینمت؛ بالاخره یک روز قشنگ حرف میزنم؛ جیزز شیوز؛ کرم نوار؛ بکنش دوتا؛ به یاد آوردن کودکی ام در قاره ی افریقا؛ شهر نور در تاریکی؛ من به کیف اعلام وفاداری میکنم؛ جیب بر و جیب بریانی؛ دختره داشت جلو چشمم میمرد؛ آدم با هوش؛ نمایش آخر شب؛ هرچه پوشیده را میخورم؛

مجموعه‌ ای از مقاله‌ ها، و یادداشت‌های طنز، اثر «دیوید سداریس»، نویسنده‌ ی «آمریکایی» است؛ جناب «پیمان خاکسار»، در مقدمه‌ ی کتاب، درباره‌ ی رفتن سراغ نویسنده‌ هایی همچون «سداریس»، و معرفی آن‌ها به خوانشگران فارسی‌ زبان، می‌نویسند: (ممکن است با دیدن عناوین بعضی از کتاب‌هایی که ترجمه کرده‌ ام با خودتان بگویید، این نویسنده‌ ها دیگر کیستند؟ شاید پیش خودتان فکر کنید، که خاکسار دوست دارد نویسنده‌ های بی‌ اهمیت و ناشناخته را از تاریک‌ترین کنج‌های ادبیات جهان پیدا کند، و آثارشان را ترجمه کند؛ این‌طور نیست؛ این نویسنده‌ ها مهم‌ هستند؛ شاید مهم‌تر و مشهورتر از کسانی که آثارشان در «ایران»، ترجمه و خوانده می‌شود؛ در دورانی که مخاطب ادبیات بودم، و ترجمه نمی‌کردم، همیشه برایم سئوال بود که چرا هیچ مترجمی سراغ این آثار نمی‌رود؟ شاید همین باعث شد، به ترجمه روی بیاورم، تا نویسنده‌ هایی را که دوستشان داشتم، ولی آثارشان به فارسی ترجمه نشده بود را، به شما معرفی کنم، تا در لذت خواندن‌شان باهم شریک شویم؛ «دیوید سداریس» هم از همین دسته نویسندگان است.) پایان نقل

تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 03/07/1399هجری خورشیدی؛ 20/06/1400هجری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

That about sums it up.

Because, what's the point to these anecdotes? Are you trying to tell me something Mr. Sedaris? I think not. You think you're funny? Meh, not that funny. Special? You're not that special either. You're a writer, just another writer. What's the big deal?

As I said, I don't care much for your little stories. Seriously, my dear, I don't give a damn.

وقتی کتاب رو شروع کردم انتظار کلی خنده و قهقه زدن داشتم اما توی بخش اول کتاب با اینکه داستان ها خیلی خوب بود ولی چند تا لبخند بیشتر نصیبم نشد. اما سداریس توی بخش دوم حسابی جبران کرد و داستان ها مخصوصا قسمت های مربوط به یادگیری زبان فرانسه فوق العاده بود.داستان ها مسائل روزمره ای بود که ممکنه برای همه ما اتفاق بیفته، قسمت دوست داشتنی قضیه نگاه طنزی بود که سداریس به این اتفاقات داره و مسئله ای که میتونه یه نفر رو کاملا از کوره به در ببره برای اون میشه یه موضوع برای داستانی پر از خنده و لبخند.در کل فکر می کنم طنز این کتاب به دلیل موضوعاتی که سداریس بهشون می پردازه برای آمریکایی ها ملموس تر باشه

I thought Sedaris was funny in writing, but he's even funnier when he's delivering his own material aloud. I could've done without the live recordings of some parts, though. They sounded like the laugh track on a 90s sitcom, and the material can stand just fine on its own.