Watch Your Mouth, by Daniel Handler
Watch Your Mouth by Daniel Handler is a great read. A coworker at my part-time job at Borders recommended it to me. I had recently finished reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (loved it!) and was 640 pages into Victor Hugo's Les Miserables and wanted a bit of a pick me up. With reviews on the back cover like Like Kafka on Prozac. -Village Voice, Your basic self-reflexive parody incest opera mystery. -Kirkus Review, or One of those . . . incest-comedy gothic Jewish porn opera novel. -Village Voice, I ask you, how can you go wrong?The book was a very quick read, taking place in four acts of three scenes each, just like going to an opera. There are intermissions, so your reading schedule is decided for you, thus eliminating one more thing you have to stress about in your already too-hectic life. I suggest you buy it immediately and enjoy yourself for two full afternoons (or one, if you get home early). Twelve dollars and ninety-five cents at all your local bookstores, published by HarperCollins Publishers, who kind of suck, but we'll buy their books anyway.
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