Ira Glass - This American Life: Lies Sissies & Fiascoes
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Artist: Ira GlassEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-05-04
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Peter Pan - Jack Hitt
- Drama Bug - David Sedaris
- Letterman! Cookies! - Dishwasher Pete
- Mr. Loh's Not Afraid to Be Naked - Sandra Tsing Loh
- Teen Getaway - Cheryl Trykv
- Shooting Dad - Sarah Vowell
- Hands on a Hardbody - Rob Bindler
- Get Over It! - Ira Glass
- Hands on a Hard Body - Rob Bindler
- Test - Scott Carrier
- Christmas Freud - David Rakoff
- Apology Line - Marissa Bridge
Music reviews of This American Life: Lies Sissies & Fiascoes
Music Review: good, not great
Rating: 4 Stars
I bought this audio book for a recent road trip and found that it did help to pass the time. I was engaged in most of the stories; however, I did not have very many laugh out loud moments as was my hope. Enjoyable but don't expect greatness.
Description of This American Life: Lies Sissies & Fiascoes
With the rise of more and more forms of media, the American storytelling tradition has become increasingly fractured. Praise be then for This American Life, a weekly radio anthology of stories that never fail to move even the most casual listener. Lies, Sissies, and Fiascoes purports to be a best-of compendium, but at two discs there's plenty more where this comes from. --Randy SilverAre you a sucker for a well-told story--one that'll make you hoot with pleasure, drop your mouth in disbelief, tear up with empathy? If that be the case, you're likely already a fan of the brilliant beyond-hip This American Life. If you're not yet familiar with the Public Radio show and its ingenious host, Ira Glass, Lies, Sissies & Fiascoes will tickle your ears and engage your sense of wonderment. Underscored by adroitly chosen musical bits from Jonathan Richman to Liz Phair to Yo La Tengo, The Best of TAL springs into action illustrating the criterion for true fiasco with Jack Hitt's lively narrative of an uproariously bad production of Peter Pan. David Sedaris recounts reeling off insults and complaints in iambic pentameter as a teen bitten by the Drama Bug (which bites "Jews, homosexuals and plump women who wear their hair in bangs" the hardest). Dishwasher Pete tells how he duped the Letterman show, Scott Carrier gives a moving account of how his life unraveled and came back together during the season he conducted interviews with schizophrenics, and Ira Glass sounds off on getting over heartbreak. --Paige La Grone
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