![]() ![]() Gifted children have always been good at doing two things at a time, and where I am I’ve played solitaire so much it’s practically a biorhythm. I, Flannery Culp, am playing solitaire even as I finish this. Should be required highschool reading – not only for students but for faculty! Read more It is a funny book, but it's also terribly sad in its accuracy. (The reader knows she's guilty – look at her name, after all!) The device makes for a very interesting unreliable narrator – but the best part of the book isn't Flan's tale of her highschool clique and how she wound up becoming infamous, but Handler's deftly pointed satire, as he shows the absurdity of how teachers, authority figures, and the media and self-help gurus (like "Winnie Moprah") take problems and run in the completely wrong direction with them, babbling about cults and Satanism instead of actually addressing real problems. The book is told through the diary of Flannery Culp, who is re-writing said diary, a year after the significant events, from the confines of an institution. I would highly recommend ‘Basic Eight' for anyone who was a fan of ‘Heathers' – very similar themes, similar brand of dark humor – but updated and more-than-timely. Said coworker assured me that this book was much better – and she was right! ![]() ![]() I've read a couple of Handler's Lemony Snicket books, and thought they were mildly amusing. ![]()
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