  I just finished reading the latest book by David Sedaris entitled Dress Your Family in corduroy and Denim, and it fell below my expectations. Aside from hearing Sedaris on NPR, the only other book of his I have read is Me Talk Pretty One Day, which I enjoyed immensely.
Overall he is very skilled at telling a story with his style being clean, neat, and crisp. One is able to breeze through his books quickly because they are an assortment of light and humorous essays. But I also feel as if this type of presentation is a limitation of the author as I find myself loosing interest towards the end of each essay as the story grows stale. There are also parts in the book where he leaps from humor to a more serious and formal tone, but doesn't quite make the transition work. David Sedaris has a great talent for cocktail party anecdotes, but he could never master a full novel. Parts of the book also seem to be written not for their humor, but of quite praise for his family members with a scent of hope for forgiveness in using them in previous writings. That being said, I am still a fan. His humor is biting and at several places in the book I laughed out loud.
He is able to take an typical happening and deliver in such a way that makes it completely unique. He knows where his powers lay in writing and he leans on them with great success. I give this book 3 stars out of 5 as only 3/5 of the book is worth reading. It's a good read all the way through, but perhaps if he had waited to publish he could have weeded out the less humorous stories for better ones. 
