![]() It also sets Flannery up as a possibly unreliable narrator, as some inconsistencies start to undermine her trustworthiness-a fact which she acknowledges flippantly. This creates some interesting temporal disjunctions and Möbius strips in the narrative, as the point of view shifts from the as-it-happens journal to after-the-fact asides and reflection. There's a bit of a narrative conceit going on as, in the "Introduction," Flannery explains that the writings to follow are her journal that she kept as the events of the book unfolded, which she is now editing after the fact. The title refers to a clique of eight upper-middle class high school students, and the story is told from the point of view of one of them: Flannery Culp, a teenage girl with seemingly normal teenage-girl hangups, who (and this is not really a spoiler) becomes obsessed with a boy and eventually murders him. The Basic Eight is the 1999 debut novel from Daniel Handler, who is better known to the world at large as Lemony Snicket. ![]() ![]() And then, when you get to the most wicked part of all, you want to read it all over again right away. ![]() ![]() Wicked for its black humor, wicked for playing insidious mind games, and wicked for the way it sucks you in, building in intensity until the next thing you know it's 6 a.m. by daniel handler fiction thomas dunne books 1999 ![]()
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