Watch Your Mouth

Watch Your Mouth

2000 • 240 pages

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Average rating3.3

15

As much as I love Daniel Handler and have gotten used to his rambling, amazing prose I just didn't understand what the point of this book was.

I guess at some level, it's about family dynamics, and how things aren't always what they seem until they are. At another level, it's about dealing with trauma in the best way you know how. And then on yet another level, it's all just a huge joke with incest as it's punch line.

Any way you read it, you're going to have questions and Handler doesn't provide the answers. I

November 15, 2010Report this review