Naked - David Sedaris

The reviews call these stories hilarious. While they show blatant commentary about the average lunatics and are definitely outrageous, my mind tended toward the poignant sides of the stories - the bittersweet factor in the family's last gathering before his mother's death, the sadness in people's stupidity and cruelty. The humor lies in the outrageousness of the things Sedaris has purportedly done - from working as an assistant to an idiot clockmaker in Oregon, to riding with his sister to rescue a whore to stay with the family for a night, to spending a week in a nudist colony.

In Progress:
Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office -Lois P. Frankel
The World Is Flat -Thomas L. Friedman