- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (Mar 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 006093817X
- ISBN-13: 978-0060938178
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.8 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,143,920 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The period of Joseph's life spent living with his girlfriend Cyn and her family is part-opera and part-twelve-step-programme. Is what Joseph thinks is happening REALLY happening, or just the work of his dirty mind? And is Mimi Glass' golem (a clay creature that rises to do its master's bidding) really killing people, or is Joseph the one who's a monster? Daniel Handler is the master of American black comedy, and this was a very creative book. (A+)
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Daniel Handler once again proves himself as a master of wordplay, which provides much humour throughout. The book is written from the perspective of Joseph, who becomes entangled with his girlfriend's family, whose dark secrets threaten to destroy them all.
Never one for literary conventions, Handler guides us through a melodramatic opera in the first half, and the stages of Joseph's attempted self-help in the latter half. Handler has cleverly shaped some sort of genius monstrosity with this book. It's not as stunningly perfect as the Lemony Snicket series, but equally as funny as The Basic Eight, with a good helping of the darkness that one comes to expect from Handler, and the carefully sculpted wordplay that makes this writer one of the very best.
Never one for literary conventions, Handler guides us through a melodramatic opera in the first half, and the stages of Joseph's attempted self-help in the latter half. Handler has cleverly shaped some sort of genius monstrosity with this book. It's not as stunningly perfect as the Lemony Snicket series, but equally as funny as The Basic Eight, with a good helping of the darkness that one comes to expect from Handler, and the carefully sculpted wordplay that makes this writer one of the very best.
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It's just the content of the book! An acquired taste and an extremely bizarre story. Not for those easily disgusted.
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