When You Are Engulfed In Flames

by David Sedaris

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

I love David Sedaris and his new book did not disappoint, and after getting it at Barnes and Noble I began reading it the next day.

My favorite story in the book is about David Sedaris buying a skeleton as a Christmas present for his boyfriend Hugh. He finds not one but two skeletons, an infant and an adult and describes himself contemplating which one to purchase, the infant would be easier to wrap just put it in a dresser drawer and tie a ribbon on it were as the full grown corpse would be more difficult, in the end he decides to go with the adult skeleton later regretting it when the corpse tells him he is going to die.

I know it probably sounds slightly disturbing but it's hysterical to read about him bartering over the price and debating how to wrap the decomposing gift. Maybe I just have a sick and twisted mind but I was crying I was laughing so hard.