A review by skrau
Adverbs, by Daniel Handler

3.0

I had no idea what was going on in most of this book, and sometimes that made it terrible and sometimes it was fun to just go with it. There were too many characters to keep apart, but I actually remember most of them in great detail. The writing was ridiculously annoying sometimes, but every once in a while there was a perfect, if slightly crazy, phrase or paragraph or several pages that resonated with me.

Of course the one time a guy actually asks me, "What are you reading? What's it about?" while I sat outside on a lunch break, it's this book, which is impossible to describe especially in once sentence, so he walked away probably regretting it but it's okay because he wasn't that cute anyways. And I'm sure Daniel Handler could have made that story into a whole chapter that was barely about the actual anecdote.

I couldn't really recommend this book, I found it hard to get through in some parts, but for the most part I enjoyed it. I think.