A review by ctingle
When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris

3.0

While I ended up enjoying this book, it lost points with me because I found the narrator to be pretentious in several essays in the first half of the book. I just couldn't relate to his experiences, and although I'm not expecting to relate to every book I read (what would be the point of reading if I did?), I found Sedaris to be insufferable at times which made the book tough to read. I thought the second half of the book was much more enjoyable, probably because his self-deprecating humor was more well written, in my opinion.