'Rakoff is genuinely funny and can really write. This is up there with Jon Ronson, Dave Barry or David Sedaris (a friend and sometime collaborator of Rakoff's) for sheer liveliness and savage wit … This is a very fine example of the genre.'

'Rakoff likes to paint himself as urbane to a fault, an outsider anywhere unpaved. But then, in the woods or on a mountaintop, he reveals himself, despite his searing and hilarious observations, to be a completely unrelenting romantic.'

'Delightfully off the map, and in an age of comedic and rhetorical meanness … a rare model of genuine empathy.'

'A fast-talking, encyclopedic digresser of the first rank.'

'Impulsively readable … completely and utterly original.'

'A cannily satirical tour guide.'

'The pleasures of reading that results when an exceedingly sharp pen encounters an exceedingly inviting target are not to be denied, and Rakoff offers many such delights in these pages. He also, by no means incidentally, has a humane view of human society at its most ordinary and unpretentious.'

'David Rakoff is at his cynical best in Don’t Get Too Comfortable… [He] takes no prisoners in this book … There’s something to amuse and offend everyone … Rakoff is a master wordsmith whose rapier wit and shrewd story manipulation are matched only by his ability to find poignant humanity in the most unexpected places … [A] thoroughly entertaining book.'

'The belly laughs start on page 7 and occur regularly throughout Rakoff’s frequently impertinent, occasionally irascible, yet always inimitable take on contemporary American society.'