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Original Title:	Adverbs: A Novel
ISBN:	0060724412 (ISBN13: 9780060724412)
Edition Language:	English

Adverbs

Daniel Handler

Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 3.39 | 4254 Users | 633 Reviews

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Title	:	Adverbs
Author	:	Daniel Handler
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	April 11th 2006 by Ecco (first published April 1st 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Humor. Romance. Contemporary

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Hello. I am Daniel Handler, the author of this book. Did you know that authors often write the summaries that appear on their book's dust jacket? You might want to think about that the next time you read something like, "A dazzling page-turner, this novel shows an internationally acclaimed storyteller at the height of his astonishing powers."

"Adverbs" is a novel about love -- a bunch of different people, in and out of different kinds of love. At the start of the novel, Andrea is in love with David -- or maybe it's Joe -- who instead falls in love with Peter in a taxi. At the end of the novel, it's Joe who's in the taxi, falling in love with Andrea, although it might not be Andrea, or in any case it might not be the same Andrea, as Andrea is a very common name. So is Allison, who is married to Adrian in the middle of the novel, although in the middle of the ocean she considers a fling with Keith and also with Steve, whom she meets in an automobile, unless it's not the same Allison who meets the Snow Queen in a casino, or the same Steve who meets Eddie in the middle of the forest. . . .

It might sound confusing, but that's love, and as the author -- me -- says, "It is not the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done." This novel is about people trying to find love in the ways it is done before the volcano erupts and the miracle ends. Yes, there's a volcano in the novel. In my opinion a volcano automatically makes a story more interesting.

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Three is too generous, because I'm mad - deeply mad - at you, Adverbs. You sucked away 17 days of my life for what? WHAT, I ask you? Some clever lines, repeating symbols, cutesy structure - but what the hell was this? A novel? (no) Short stories? (maybe) Intellectual masturbation, because Daniel Handler could? (probably)By the end I was confused and annoyed, and now I'm reliving that confusion and annoyance. I confess, I've decided to abandon this one short story/chapter/ejaculation before the

After having read The Basic Eight and a few of the volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, I picked this up for a light and absorbing plane-read on my way to a funeral. I was thrilled, then, to find it both unexpectedly poignant and powerful. Handler's easygoing and conversational voice effortlessly masks true linguistic prowess, allowing me to read his stories as breezily or as pensively as I chose. Truly a book of linked short stories, rather than a "novel" as the back cover suggests, the

A self-indulgent, unreadable, too-clever-for-its-own good failure from the author of the Lemony Snicket series. One is reminded of Sir Arthur Sullivan, who is said to have been unhappy his entire life, dismissing the success of all of the Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, mourning his failure to succeed with more "serious" composition.

shhhhh! This review isnt for everyone. Neither is this book. But like this book, this review is for youyou only. Maybe you and that other guy, or the woman who contorts herself trying to see the title of what your reading and thinking no one notices her doing it. She might be a character in the story, Adverbs, but she isnt because that would be that story, and this is this story, which isnt a story, exactly, but it is because its a reviewof sorts, the only type Im in the mood to write. So,

I love Lemony Snicket's weird ways. And when I saw this in the library, I figured I would love Daniel Handler's weird ways as well. And I did, for the most part. This book is more a series of short stories, with familiar characters and themes resurfacing in nearly every chapter. It's hard to keep track of everyone, and I'd very much like to map out which character does what and appears where, but it's made clear even in the jacket copy that things are pretty ambiguous, and that one Andrea here

Can I give this less than one star? Adverbs? I have nouns: crap, nonsense, onanism. I have adjectives: rambling, tedious, juvenile. I have better things to do than waste time on this book and so do you.

I've never read Handler's kid stuff but Adverbs did make me feel young again, if you don't mind that dust-smudged cliche. Not that I'm old even. And I certainly don't yearn for a lost childhood. Adverbs, the novel, or rather Adverbs: A Novel, made English over for me again, for the little while I was inside it. I had that giddy feeling I remember from my toddling times after reading my first "grown-ups" book -- that is, my first book without pictures. I don't know what that book was but it