The Basic Eight

Name: The Basic Eight
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Daniel Handler
ISBN: 9781696613743

Author: Daniel Handler

Narrator: Ann Marie Gideon

Unabridged: 11 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 11/21/2023

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

A satire of teenage life follows cynical soon-to-graduate Flannery Culp on a raucous journey through high school in the 1990s, covering SATs, college applications, friends, boyfriends, tabloid journalism, and TV talk shows. A first novel.

About Daniel Handler

Daniel Handler is the author of the novels All the Dirty Parts, We Are Pirates, The Basic Eight, Watch Your Mouth, Adverbs, and Why We Broke Up. As Lemony Snicket, he is responsible for many books for children, including the thirteen-volume sequence A Series of Unfortunate Events and the four-book series All the Wrong Questions. He is married to the illustrator Lisa Brown and lives with her and their son in San Francisco.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark on October 02, 2018

The "Basic Eight" are a group of teenage friends. Flannery Culp is our neurotic narrator. The novel is about love and murder and friendship in high school. This review of THE BASIC EIGHT features my very own Basic Eight from Los Alamitos, Orange County. Photos circa 1988. KEY WORDS: REALISTIC ☻ PRIVIL......more

Goodreads review by Greg on August 25, 2010

Karen may disagree with this theory, but I came up with it while reading The Basic Eight and I'll expound on it here. I was going write a second part to this review, but it was going to be chock full of spoilers, and I kind of hate spoilers. And some book reports. This book is part of the Secret His......more

Goodreads review by Clare on August 07, 2007

How do I love "The Basic Eight"? Let me count the ways. I love the delicious untrustworthiness of the narrator. I love the cheerfully horrifying violence. I love the snarky questions for the reader at the end of each chapter, textbook-style, that don't just remake the points but cleverly further the......more

Goodreads review by Erin on October 17, 2014

Well, damn, this book is smart. I'm not talking about the ending (I don't actually think all the mechanics work out perfectly) so much as Flannery herself, in all her glorious unreliable narrator-ness. The book is her diary, which she's editing for publication from prison - the treatment of time is......more

Goodreads review by Iulia on September 16, 2018

Dark, devious and intoxicating. This book pulled me in with some sort of twisted, magnetic force, until it was 2 AM and I realized I had finished it in one go. Full review to come.......more