#30 in Essays
Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
- 288
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 15 weeks on the list, peaked at #1
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Our view
“Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls” is an uneven Sedaris collection, very funny at its best, especially when he returns to childhood and family. Essays sit beside a few short fictions, and there are readers who miss a thread to hold the book together. Some find the later, more recent material flatter and his observations overfamiliar, and a few items strike some as offensive. Best taken one piece at a time by those who already like his voice.
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About the book
A guy walks into a bar car and... From here the story could take many turns. When this guy is David Sedaris, the possibilities are endless, but the result is always the same: he will both delight you with twists of humor and intelligence and leave you deeply moved. Sedaris remembers his father's dinnertime attire (shirtsleeves and underpants), his first colonoscopy (remarkably pleasant), and the time he considered buying the skeleton of a murdered Pygmy. With Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls, David Sedaris shows once again why his work has been called "hilarious, elegant, and surprisingly moving" (Washington Post).
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.5 across 326 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 69% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Essays average of 8.0. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.3 | 32 | 10% |
| Hardcover | 7.5 | 294 | 90% |
Frequently asked
How long is Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls?
It has 288 pages — shorter than 52% of the ranked books in Essays.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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