Holidays on Ice: With Six New Stories

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I told Riley that … Santa was going to take away his TV and all his electrical appliances and leave him in the dark.I always go with audiobooks narrated by himself, because he adds the oh-so-necessary inflection, as well as some humorous renditions of his family members and, one of my favorites, Billie Holiday doing Christmas and commercial jingles. Sedaris came to prominence in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries. It's a quick read, funny, and made me feel a little better knowing that I at least don't have to make a living handing out leaflets dressed in a taco costume. And now with six additional holiday-themed stories, including one never before published, it is the ideal companion with which to pass long hours beside the menorah. If you are looking for a dark Christmas comedy, "The Stupidest Angel", was in my opinion, head and shoulders better than this mess.

While it contained the cynicism I have come to expect from him, it seemed to overpower the humor a lot more than usual. There's a critic's-eye report on school nativity plays, a television documentary maker trying to bully, cajole and bribe a church congregation into telling stories on their friend and finally, a couple attempt to outdo their flashy neighbours with seasonal acts of selfish and extreme good will. It was well worth it to see all the beautiful posters up close and the different iterations as well as his other works for advertisements, tea boxes and odes to Prague and his home country. Elves have gotten to know one another over the past four days of training but one we took off our clothes and put on the uniforms everything changed. I want to put Christmas trees in every room of the house and bake and place myself firmly on The Good List.Everything this woman said, every phrase and sentence, was punctuated with a question mark and the interviewer never raised an eyebrow. The essay was originally broadcast on NPR, and is also included in Sedaris' first book Barrel Fever. Even if you take it straight-up Christian, if you choose to spend the holidays glazing hams, say, or baking cookies shaped like hobos, you will find this audiobook indispensable. Children are berated for not being sexual enough or being too sexual, for being overweight enough to play Santa but making fun of their size at the same time with cruel adjectives and discourse. I guess my funny bone is broken or I'm not drunk enough, because after the first story I could not hardly stomach the rest of the stories.