--- product_id: 228168 title: "Me Talk Pretty One Day" price: "Rp447702" currency: IDR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/228168-me-talk-pretty-one-day store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # Me Talk Pretty One Day **Price:** Rp447702 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Me Talk Pretty One Day - **How much does it cost?** Rp447702 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/228168-me-talk-pretty-one-day) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description This vibrant collection of expat essays from legendary humorist David Sedaris is a cause for jubiliation. Sedaris's move to Paris in the early aughts inspired hilarious pieces, such as "Me Talk Pretty One Day", about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration—"You Cant Kill the Rooster" is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris is one of America's best-loved authors, and his biting essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest he's ever written. (At last, someone even meaner than the French!) The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had a love child. “If you’re looking for some comic relief, look no further than David Sedaris.” ―NPR Review: Laugh First, Think Later - I chose Me Talk Pretty One Day when challenged to read a short story or essay collection. This humorous book had always been on my to-read list, partly because I knew people who loved David Sedaris and partly because the title intrigued me. I am a speech-language pathologist, and friends told me the book did not paint a pretty picture of us. One theme throughout the memoir is communication. Yes, the story of attending speech therapy as a kid presented a negative experience. But one thing I found intriguing was that, since he resisted perfecting his lisp, he learned the art of “circumlocution,” avoiding all words with the /s/ sound. He increased his vocabulary dramatically. I’m sure that helped him later in his writing. On the surface, Sedaris’ writing is entertaining. But it also addresses social issues gently, with humor. First, he makes us laugh, and then he makes us think. Social class differences are another theme. He travels back in time and writes about his experience of living in North Carolina as a transplanted kid from New York. His parents wanted him to blend in, but not to the point of saying “y’all” or chewing tobacco. Back in NYC as a young adult, he earned money as a mover and has a lot to say about that experience, during which he saw all walks of life and described the city as much more hopeful from afar. Finally, the social differences he writes humorously about include sexual preference and gender inequities. One of the funniest (and then poignant) stories is about his sister Amy, who donned a “fat suit” to visit the family after a long absence, just to get a reaction from their father, who thought her appearance was her most valuable trait. All being told, Sedaris uses his memories to make us laugh… and then think. Review: Laugh-Out-Loud Essays by a Great Contemporary Humorist - David Sedaris’s “Me Talk Pretty One Day” is a collection of humorous essays published in 2000. Did I say humorous? I meant laugh-out-loud hilarious, in many instances. Several of the essays first appeared in the New Yorker, so Sedaris follows a time-honored path tread by E.B. White, James Thurber and other fine American essayists who graced the magazine’s pages. The similarities don’t end there. Like Thurber and other humorists, Sedaris writes of his family’s pets during the years of his youth. When in “The Youth of Asia” essay the author talks about his Great Dane, I’m reminded of my own deep affection for our family’s cat. And like other American humorists, Sedaris writes about his family. Encouraged by his father who loved jazz, Sedaris took voice lessons. However, he aspired to sing not jazz standards but commercial jingles – in the voice of Billie Holiday. I giggled as I read in “Great Dreams, Midget Abilities” of Sedaris crooning Sara Lee and Oscar Mayer jingles in Lady Day’s inimitable voice. Sedaris’s father saved lots of things, including food. He’d squirrel away even ripening produce in unlikely places to eat at a later time. “I used to think of this as standard Greek behavior until I realized that ours was the only car in the church parking lot consistently swarmed by bees,” explains Sedaris in “I’ll Eat What He’s Wearing.” But family and pets aren’t his only foils. And this is where Sedaris departs from iconic American humorists. He’s downright edgy, and candid, writing of his meth habit in “Twelve Moments in the Life of an Artist.” “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. … Speed eliminates all doubt. … Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit? A speed enthusiast knows that everything he says or does is brilliant.” Sedaris is at his best, perhaps, sharing his struggle to learn French. His husband has a second home in Normandy, and the couple spends time both there and in Paris, so the author attends French immersion classes. In “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” Sedaris and his fellow pupils, gathered outside the classroom, console one another in their challenge to master the language: “Sometime me cry alone at night.” “That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday you talk pretty.” Sedaris’s sister tries to help, mailing him a copy of Pocket Medical French. “I was quickly able to learn such sparkling conversational icebreakers as ‘Remove your dentures and all your jewelry’ and ‘You now need to deliver the afterbirth.’ … That’s me at the glittering party, refilling my champagne glass and turning to ask my host if he’s noticed any unusual discharge,” writes Sedaris in “The Tapeworm Is In.” These pages of Sedaris’s collection of essays make me laugh out loud. Not in the privacy of my home, mind you, but publicly at a coffee shop. That’s how funny, and good, “Me Talk Pretty One Day” is. ## Features - Great product! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #5,151 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #7 in Humor Essays (Books) #10 in Essays (Books) #76 in Memoirs (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 9,758 Reviews | ## Images ![Me Talk Pretty One Day - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81j-68GQs9L.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Laugh First, Think Later *by D***A on April 9, 2026* I chose Me Talk Pretty One Day when challenged to read a short story or essay collection. This humorous book had always been on my to-read list, partly because I knew people who loved David Sedaris and partly because the title intrigued me. I am a speech-language pathologist, and friends told me the book did not paint a pretty picture of us. One theme throughout the memoir is communication. Yes, the story of attending speech therapy as a kid presented a negative experience. But one thing I found intriguing was that, since he resisted perfecting his lisp, he learned the art of “circumlocution,” avoiding all words with the /s/ sound. He increased his vocabulary dramatically. I’m sure that helped him later in his writing. On the surface, Sedaris’ writing is entertaining. But it also addresses social issues gently, with humor. First, he makes us laugh, and then he makes us think. Social class differences are another theme. He travels back in time and writes about his experience of living in North Carolina as a transplanted kid from New York. His parents wanted him to blend in, but not to the point of saying “y’all” or chewing tobacco. Back in NYC as a young adult, he earned money as a mover and has a lot to say about that experience, during which he saw all walks of life and described the city as much more hopeful from afar. Finally, the social differences he writes humorously about include sexual preference and gender inequities. One of the funniest (and then poignant) stories is about his sister Amy, who donned a “fat suit” to visit the family after a long absence, just to get a reaction from their father, who thought her appearance was her most valuable trait. All being told, Sedaris uses his memories to make us laugh… and then think. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Laugh-Out-Loud Essays by a Great Contemporary Humorist *by L***F on March 6, 2025* David Sedaris’s “Me Talk Pretty One Day” is a collection of humorous essays published in 2000. Did I say humorous? I meant laugh-out-loud hilarious, in many instances. Several of the essays first appeared in the New Yorker, so Sedaris follows a time-honored path tread by E.B. White, James Thurber and other fine American essayists who graced the magazine’s pages. The similarities don’t end there. Like Thurber and other humorists, Sedaris writes of his family’s pets during the years of his youth. When in “The Youth of Asia” essay the author talks about his Great Dane, I’m reminded of my own deep affection for our family’s cat. And like other American humorists, Sedaris writes about his family. Encouraged by his father who loved jazz, Sedaris took voice lessons. However, he aspired to sing not jazz standards but commercial jingles – in the voice of Billie Holiday. I giggled as I read in “Great Dreams, Midget Abilities” of Sedaris crooning Sara Lee and Oscar Mayer jingles in Lady Day’s inimitable voice. Sedaris’s father saved lots of things, including food. He’d squirrel away even ripening produce in unlikely places to eat at a later time. “I used to think of this as standard Greek behavior until I realized that ours was the only car in the church parking lot consistently swarmed by bees,” explains Sedaris in “I’ll Eat What He’s Wearing.” But family and pets aren’t his only foils. And this is where Sedaris departs from iconic American humorists. He’s downright edgy, and candid, writing of his meth habit in “Twelve Moments in the Life of an Artist.” “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. … Speed eliminates all doubt. … Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit? A speed enthusiast knows that everything he says or does is brilliant.” Sedaris is at his best, perhaps, sharing his struggle to learn French. His husband has a second home in Normandy, and the couple spends time both there and in Paris, so the author attends French immersion classes. In “Me Talk Pretty One Day,” Sedaris and his fellow pupils, gathered outside the classroom, console one another in their challenge to master the language: “Sometime me cry alone at night.” “That be common for I, also, but be more strong, you. Much work and someday you talk pretty.” Sedaris’s sister tries to help, mailing him a copy of Pocket Medical French. “I was quickly able to learn such sparkling conversational icebreakers as ‘Remove your dentures and all your jewelry’ and ‘You now need to deliver the afterbirth.’ … That’s me at the glittering party, refilling my champagne glass and turning to ask my host if he’s noticed any unusual discharge,” writes Sedaris in “The Tapeworm Is In.” These pages of Sedaris’s collection of essays make me laugh out loud. Not in the privacy of my home, mind you, but publicly at a coffee shop. That’s how funny, and good, “Me Talk Pretty One Day” is. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ You'll roar out loud -- absolutely HILARIOUS! *by J***N on September 19, 2001* CAUTION: "Me Talk Pretty One Day" is one of the FUNNIEST books you'll EVER read. You'll laugh out loud until you're embarrassed. You'll roar at wisecracks so biting and mean that you'll feel guilty. And if you read a certain (in)famous chapter you'll howl with laughter, pretend you shouldn't have read it -- and read it again...and howl.. again. The acid-pen Sedaris shot to fame reading his humorous stories over National Public Radio (and he still insisted on cleaning houses for money). The book's first half has stories on various subjects (family, art class, teaching writing, working for tough bosses etc.). The second deals with his experiences in moving to France with his lover. Sedaris spares no one -- not his father, sister, teachers, artists or himself -- from his scapel-sharp, insight-filled humor. Some wisecracks are instant classics. When he tries to become an artist, dabbling in questionable performance art, he writes of artists: "Their artworks were known as `pieces,' a phrase I enthusiastically embraced. `Nice piece,' I'd say. In my eagerness to please, I accidentally complimented chipped baseboards and sacks of laundry waiting to be taken to the cleaners. Anything might be a piece if you looked at it hard enough." When a museum wants him to do some performance art it seemed "as though I should play hard to get, but after a moment or two of awkward silence, I agreed to do it for what I called `political reasons.' I needed the money for drugs." In a chapter detailing the lives and deaths of his various pets: "When my mother died and was cremated herself we worried that, acting on instinct, our father might run out and immediately replace her." When he's invited to teach: "I was clearly unqualified yet I accepted the job without hesitation, as it would allow me to wear a tie and go by the name Mr. Sedaris." And what a sadistic French teach told him:"Every day spent with you is like having a cesarean section." In his most innovative "piece," a chapter called Big Boy, he describes his battle with (ahem) something he sees in a toilet. You'll roar while you read this short three page story and hate yourself for reading it...and read it again. The book contains some adult language and adult situations. 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