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The Ultimate David Sedaris |  | Author: David Sedaris
Publisher: Warner Adult
Category: Book
List Price: $99.98
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Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 239215
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 20
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 5.9 x 5.4 x 2.5
ISBN: 1594836345
Dewey Decimal Number: 818.5402
EAN: 9781594836343
ASIN: 1594836345
Publication Date: November 20, 2006
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Product Description
David Sedaris, who regularly appears on NPR, isfun, satirical and brazen. A wonderful collection of his greatest work.
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 Worth it if you don't have any of the pieces but poor packaging and no track listings (but here they are anyway) December 29, 2006
Marc
84 out of 84 found this review helpful
This is a great collection whether you are a long-term Sedaris fan or are just beginning to discover him. It's a pretty good deal if you don't have any of his audio books yet. While I don't usually go for audio books, I find that I am not only hooked on the writing but also on Sedaris's hilarious delivery. The "live" performances are best.
As rightly pointed out by another reviewer, the packaging is the biggest disappointment. At $100 retail, one would expect (1) a sturdier and more elegant outer case, (2) individual packaging of each set inside the outer case (the current split into 4 inner booklets does not adhere to the component volumes), and (3) track listings. Of these, #2 is the most glaring shortcoming: the four inner booklets are too thick, have too much cardboard, are unwieldy and inconsistently organized, and have no artwork or even any labeling at all: you have to open each booklet to find a particular disc or set. In fact, the only writing on each booklet is a US Patent number (why this idiotic design was ever patented and why they feel the need to stress that is beyond me). I could easily have designed a nicer, slimmer, and more ergonomic packaging (anyone from Hachette reading this? Feel free to contact me next time.)
Finally, here are the track listings, since there are none in the whole bulky package. Note that the longer segments are divided in multiple tracks: the first track of such segments is listed below.
*** Barrel Fever: Disc 1 ***
01. Intro & Drag
03. Giantess
05. The Curly Kind
07. You Can't Kill the Rooster
10. Parade
14. The Last You'll Hear from Me
*** Barrel Fever: Disc 2 ***
01. Glen's Homophobia News Letter Vol. 3, No. 2
05. Barrel Fever
*** Barrel Fever: Disc 3 ***
01. Don's Story
05. Golden Moments
08. Tattle Tale
12. Credits
*** Holidays on Ice: Disc 1 ***
01. SantaLand Diaries
*** Holidays on Ice: Disc 2 ***
01. Based Upon a True Story
07. Season's Greetings
*** Holidays on Ice: Disc 3 ***
01. Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol
03. Dinah, the Christmas [...]
09. Christmas Means Giving
13. Credits
*** Naked: Disc 1 ***
01. A Plague of Tics
06. Get Your Ya-Ya's Out
11. Next Of Kin
*** Naked: Disc 2 ***
01. Cyclops
04. True Detectives
09. The Drama Bug
12. I Like Guys
*** Naked: Disc 3 ***
01. Ashes
07. Naked
14. Credits
*** Live at Carnegie Hall ***
01. Thanks
02. Repeat after Me
05. Why Them? [Introduction to NPR's Ira Glass and Terry Gross Show]
06. Who's the Chef?
08. The Feminine Mistake
09. With a Pal like This You Don't Need an Enemy
10. Six to Eight Black Men
13. Q & A
14. Credits
*** Me Talk Pretty One Day: Disc 1 ***
01. Go Carolina
06. Giants Dreams, Midget Abilities
11. The Youth in Asia
*** Me Talk Pretty One Day: Disc 2 ***
01. Twelve Moments in the Life of the Artist
13. The Learning Curve
17. Today's Special
18. City Of Angels
*** Me Talk Pretty One Day: Disc 3 ***
01. A Shiner like A Diamond
04. [...]
07. See You Again Yesterday
12. Me Talk Pretty One Day
15. Jesus Shaves
*** Me Talk Pretty One Day: Disc 4 ***
01. The Tape Worm Is In
03. Make That a Double
05. Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa
08. 21 Down
09. The City Of Light in the Dark
11. I Pledge Allegiance to the Bag
14. Picka Pocketoni
*** Me Talk Pretty One Day: Disc 5 ***
01. I Almost Saw This Girl Get Killed
05. I'll Eat What He's Wearing (Live)
08. Bend Over and Say "Ah" (Live)
10. Precious Moments (Live)
19. Poems about Dogs (Live)
20. A Million Bubbles (Live)
21. Credits
*** Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim: Disc 1 ***
01. Introduction
02. Us and Them
05. Let It Snow
06. The Ship Shape
10. Full House
13. Consider the Stars
*** Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Disc 2 ***
01. Monie Changes Everything
07. The Change in Me
11. Hejira
12. Slumus Lordicus
*** Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Disc 3 ***
01. The Girl Next Door
07. Blood Work
11. The End of the Affair
12. Repeat after Me
*** Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Disc 4 ***
01. Six To Eight Black Men
04. Rooster at the Hitchin' Post
09. Possession
11. Put a Lid on It
*** Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim: Disc 5 ***
01. A Can Of Worms
03. Chicken in the Henhouse
08. Who's the Chef?
10. Baby Einstein
14. Nuit of the Living Dead
18. Credits
Packaging stinks, but material is great January 10, 2007
A. Jordan (East Taunton, MA United States)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I agree that the packaging is awful-half of the CDs have no listing of tracks anywhere in the packaging; the other half have listings on the CDs themselves (which makes it difficult to find a certain track). And the awful, cheap cardboard sleeves, which all look alike, doesn't help you to find the CD you're looking for. But if you're just putting them on your MP3 player anyway, what difference does it really make?
The material is hysterical. My favorite tracks are from "Me Talk Pretty One Day"-the self titled chapter and "Jesus Shaves." The live stuff is great too, especially the Carnegie Hall track "With a Pal like this, you don't need an enemy" (a live version of him reading this on Letterman can be found on YouTube-good stuff!).
This was one of my favorite Christmas gifts, the other one being David's sister Amy's new book "I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence." If you're not familiar with "Strangers With Candy," you'll know her as the sister that loves to dress up and impersonate people. The one with the fat suit.
Funny! February 5, 2008
TJ was Great (MD)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dave Sedaris is hilarious, and this set has a lot to laugh at. Don't mind what the other reviews say about the lack of track listings. Each CD now comes with track listings printed right on them. The packaging is weak, but I don't care; It's not like it's going to be on display. I'm going to rip the content to my Zune and be on my way.
Poor packaging for sure, but worth the purchase. January 20, 2009
BKX (California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This set of audio CDs is worth the purchase price, but be warned that the packaging royally sucks, and if you convert it to digital for a hand-held music device be prepared to do some digital manipulation. First off there are no track listings. When importing the files they come into iTunes as music files and not audiobook files. You have to convert them to audiobook files via info. Also the discs come in differently and will not be listed in order in your library. For example discs might be listed as (Disc X), [Disc X], or my favorite DX. This varies from CD to CD and not just from one book to another. Whomever it was that prepared these CDs lacked the basic knowledge to set a format, and keep it from disc to disc. Overall the sound quality is good, and the stories are great. So I will take the bad with the good, but you have been warned.
Amazon needs a better grasp of what "new" means... December 8, 2009
SJZ
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
For the material and David Sedaris, 5 stars, no question. BUT - I bought this as a "new" product directly from Amazon, not from a third party seller, yet when I checked out all of the discs to make sure everything was in good condition, it was very clear that this was used, re-packaged merchandise. 5 or 6 of the discs had obvious fingerprints and dirty/greasy smudges. 3 of them had a sticky, glue-like residue on them which I managed to clean off with some lighter fluid and a tissue; this may have been glue from the packaging, I didn't really look further into that yet (that has been a problem on a few box sets I've owned). Overall, the packaging had plenty of scuff marks and was obviously worn - not that it was ripped to shreds or anything like that, but it just looked like something that had been used for a few weeks, then repackaged (the flimsy shrink wrap should have been my first clue).
Anyways, I was able to clean everything up and there were no fatal scratches on any of the discs, so I'm not going to make any further issue of it with Amazon... besides which, I'm just not in the mood to pack it all up again, send it back, and wait for another set - just wanted to share this experience in a public forum.
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