Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems
 

Don't Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never- Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems

by David Rakoff

David Rakoff takes us on a bitingly funny grand tour of our culture of excess. Whether he is contrasting the elegance of one of the last flights of the supersonic Concorde with the good-times-and-chicken-wings populism of Hooters Air; working as a cabana boy at a South Beach hotel; or traveling to a private island off the coast of Belize to watch a soft-core video shoot—where he is... (read more)

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Sara
  • Rated 4 stars

David Rakoff is a brilliantly witty writer, often scathing, and you'll fall for his sarcasm time and time again. Puts way too many things in perspective — a great airplane book.

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Deborah A
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He called Barbara Bush a 'stupid f___ing cow' --- disgusting book

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  • Lysistrata

    lysistrata said:

    Have you read this author?

    I liked this book better than his first, Fraud. While I do think Rakoff is funny, I think he tries too hard to be funny like David Sedaris, and that is impossible. Maybe because there was a foreward in his first book from D.S. I was already making the comparison. Fraud fell completely flat for me. My husband, having seen Fraud on my bookshelf, bought Don't Get Too Comfortable after hearing a positive review of it on NPR and knowing I liked humor. I read it not expecting much, but found this to be quite enjoyable. He seemed less Sedaris-y in this book, and had more of his own voice in my opinion. What do you think?

    posted Friday, February 9 2007
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