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Holidays on Ice: With Six New Stories

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A collection of short stories on different holiday themes. Not really about the holidays, but observations of life around the holidays. If you follow my reading, you’re probably wondering what the hell could have happened to make me rate a Sedaris selection less than every Star. Well, lemma tell ya. I always get David Sedaris and Dave Eggers confused for some reason. Until now, I've never read anything by either of them, but I can't remember who it is that everyone seems to hate. Sedaris? Eggers? Both? I had planned to read this a year ago, but forgot I had it. I thought I'd better read it now during the holidays so I wouldn't have to wait another year to get to it--I can never watch Christmas movies or read holiday stories when it's not Christmas; it's depressing. There are more stories in this edition than in the previous version. Personally, I think the additional stories are welcome.) Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-08-09 10:01:02 Boxid IA40203403 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

The opening story "The SantaLand Diaries" is about Sedaris working in a Department Store as an elf, and if you've ever experienced a certain frustration (along with Charlie Brown) about the commercialization of Christmas, or Christmas being pushed on you, this story is a can't miss. Sedaris was named by The Economist as one of the funniest writers alive. [1] This is one of his first works, which was subsequently re-released with additional new passages. If you don't love Sedaris you may not enjoy the rest of the collection Santaland by far outshines the rest.Holidays on Ice is a 1997 collection of essays and stories about Christmas, some new and some previously published, by David Sedaris. I listen to the audio version which features Sedaris himself reading, I enjoy listening to him so much more then reading it,he brings that extra something.

No matter what your favorite holiday, you won't want to miss celebrating it with the author who has been called "one of the funniest writers alive" (Economist). Holidays on Ice is great right down to the cover which features an alcoholic beverage with ice in in it (adorable and much like my family's holidays). It features Christmas themed stories some his holiday experiences, others just featuring his talent as a writer. Santa land Diaries is the first essay and it is the star of this show. These are journal entries from when David at the age of 33 worked as an elf at Macy's Santaland...at the age of 33. It chronicles the insane parents, the unfortunate children, an interesting and multi-cultural array of Santa's and the policies Macy's enforces with regard to Santaland. There is so much gold here it is unreal, a Santa who never breaks character ( he is called Santa Santa) there is a gay elf (snowball) who leads all the other gay elves and a Santa on, there is a designated corner for children to vomit in, I could go on. If you're not ready for Department Store Christmas Carolers or Mall Santas, plug Holidays On Ice into your ears. Sedaris generally does an excellent job of pointing toward the madness of the holidays, without feeling like a Grinch.

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This book is seriously not funny. I suspect this may be somewhat related to the fact that it seems to be a commissioned anthology, but it fails to deliver the characteristic irony and that "we've all been there" identification so characteristic of Sedaris' work. http://www.audible.com/pd/Comedy/Holidays-on-Ice-Audiobook/B002VA93HS/ref=a_search_c4_1_2_srTtl?qid=1403810922&sr=1-2 urn:lcp:holidaysonice0000seda:lcpdf:73044a12-5a0e-41f9-a3dd-6cd290de545d Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4281 Identifier holidaysonice0000seda Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t86j6q61h Invoice 2089 Isbn 0316779237 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA17696 Openlibrary_edition At one point in Santaland Diaries "Santa" Santa demands that David sing "Away in A Manger" at first David claims not to know but when pushed by "Santa" Santa he decides to sing it as Billie Holliday would have sung it, then we are treated to this rendition which causes my dog EverlyBrothers to start howling as if he was singing with him,

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