Daniel Handler: Watch your mouth (2003, Allison & Busby)
284 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 2003 by Allison & Busby.
Tolstoy wrote that happy families are alike and that each unhappy family is unhappy in a different way. In Watch Your Mouth, Daniel Handler takes "different" to a whole new level....
Content warning Oops I said enough already
It's the funniest novel with a golem and a polyincestuous family you're going to read this summer ! There's that hint of melancholy when summer's over and the young man escapes []? this madness, but there's a time to say, 'This shit can no longer be going on !'
Hmm, well. I really love Handler's writing (as Lemony Snicket and as himself), but this book just didn't really do it for me. It's well-written but Handler's usual humor and wordplay is notably absent. The plot is disturbing and the format experimental; neither of those things are necessarily a bad thing, for me, but this just wasn't quite my jam.
