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
- Drama Bug
- Letterman! Cookies!
- Mr. Loh's Not Afraid to Be Naked
- Teen Getaway
- Shooting Dad
- Get Over It!
- Hands on a Hardbody - Rob Bindler
- The Test
- Christmas Freud
- Apology Line
Music reviews of This American Life: Lies Sissies & Fiascoes
Music Review: A Wonderful Collection of Awesome Storytelling
Rating: 5 Stars
Even though I had heard most of these stories already on This American Life, I never questioned whether or not to buy this double CD set. These uniquely American tales are timeless and universal in appeal. Even the more esoteric selections -- Scott Carrier's The Test or Dishwasher Pete's Letterman! Cookies! -- are enthralling and entertaining. It's the kind of collection about which one might honestly be able to say that the David Sedaris story is not the best piece, and this is from a person who has laughed outloud in the work bathroom while reading Sedaris' stories. Like many other reviewers, I've found special joy in sharing this CD with my friends and family. I've given it to co-workers as goingaway presents, loaned it to family members who've set out on long drives, played it for in-laws huddled around the fire on Christmas Eve, and recommended it to friends who faced the prospect of hours sitting and waiting to be picked from jury pools. One of the best things to come from this CD is the reminder of just how special the radio show This American Life is, and how lucky we are to be able to listen to the stories that Ira Glass and his staff cull from everyday life and present to us so entertainingly every week. This set is but a taste of the kinds of stories one can listen to every week on NPR. By the way, my favorite stories are Ira's Get Over It! and Jack Hitt's Peter Pan. The first for personal reasons, which I suppose a lot of guys can relate to, and the second because it's just damn funny. Listening to this collection is a little like living small parts of real lives -- every story is so rich, so real. It is This American Life and worth reliving again and again.
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