A review by dilemma
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler

5.0

Handler is really really good at creating believable narratives from a female perspective (this is an observation I am making after having read two of his female-narrated books). The characters are all so varied and Flannery is so good and rich and boy really flawed and it's so interesting to read.

And of my favorite aspects of the whole book is how she goes back and corrects all of her dangling prepositions/grammatically incorrect sentences because it is her only way of making things right/straightening things out/finding something unambiguously correct in such an ambiguous world. And I like that a lot!

It's very good and Daniel Handler is very good.