I’ve read a handful of Sedaris’ essays before for different college literature classes and don’t remember any strong feelings towards them, so this level of disappointment is certainly new. I don’t understand how this was supposed to be the best examples of Sedaris’ writing and I am baffled by this book’s high rating. I did not find any part of this humorous, and I question why essays that were known to be problematic were still included in this edition. Why is being deliberately unkind to other groups of people considered humor?