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Watch Your Mouth (Paperback)

by Daniel Handler (Author)
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  • Paperback: 232 pages
  • Publisher: Allison & Busby; New edition edition (1 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749006323
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749006327
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 665,827 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Like Kafka on Prozac' New York Newsday 'Well-written, there is much to enjoy in this subversive novel, which is by way of a comic nightmare' The Independent

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College student Joseph last name changed to protect the innocent plans on spending a hot and hazy summer with his girlfriend Cynthia Glass. He quickly settles in to Cynthia's family home - though not her bedroom, to appease her grandmother - where a very warm and friendly welcome awaited him. Signed on to work at a kids' camp during the day, Joseph fully intends to spend his evenings sneaking across the hall for a vigorous round of mattress aerobics - at least, that's when he's not worrying about his incomplete end of term paper (he and Cyn have been participating in too much physical, and not enough mental exercise recently). Meanwhile, Cynthia's mother ('just call me Mimi') is busy making props for a festival of operas...which is how she comes to be constructing a golem in the basement. (Think big Jewish robot made of clay, brought to life through magic to carry out his creator's bidding - very handy in emergencies.) And this summer, it just so happens that there is an emergency - as Joseph gradually uncovers the truth about the Glass household, where nothing's as transparent as it first seemed. There are saucy secrets afoot and the incredibly close-knit family is about to be shattered...

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5.0 out of 5 stars Very Creative, 10 Nov 2004
By Erin Horgan (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Watch Your Mouth (Paperback)
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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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars "Relatively" Interesting....., 10 Dec 2003
By NMH Convert (Dudley, West Midlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Watch Your Mouth (Paperback)
I came across this book by complete accident one afternoon in Waterstone's, read the first few pages, by which I was very impressed, and decided to give the book a chance. Everything was great for the first 50 pages or so, I found the grand Opera metaphor strangely compelling; the theme of incest was, I thought, reasonably handled, the humour not to my taste but compensated by the delicious wordplay and clever use of language. Then the plot suddnenly took a new and completely RIDICULOUS turn which just ruined the whole thing for me... I won't spoil it incase you're planning on reading it, but if you are, be prepared to suspend your beliefs- big time. Oh, and the ending's quite infuriating too on first glance, although actually quite clever, if you really think about it. Overall, I loved the style and would be interested to read Handler's other novels, but have a sneaking suspicion I shoudn't have read this as an introduction to his work. Probably not his best.
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3 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars The Best Jewish Book I've Ever Read, 28 Jun 2003
By Hustle Rose "Amelie Poulain" (Albany, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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I picked up this book after hearing about it from a good friend of mine, who had raved about it. I, frankly, didn't see what she was on about. This book has an incoherent plot, one-dimensional characters, and struggling humor. The fact that it's presented as an opera only confuses things more, as the main character knows nothing about opera, and neither, it seems, does the author (who it happens also wrote the brilliant Series of Unfortunate Events books, so he can't be all bad). It tries to deal with the disturbingly real subject of incest, but it does it in a mocking way that leads us to believe that the author has just created this complex of the mind in his head (it is related to the Odipious and Electra complexes, thought up by Freud). This is a fine summer read if you want to be confused, especially by the abrupt and unclear transitions.
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Having read and loved the Lemony Snicket books I looked forward to this. However, I found it unreadable. A promising story lost in an over-complex writing style.
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