![]() It’s one of the greatest coming of age books, ranking up there with Catcher In The Rye – but in my view, better. The end, following the dramatic and emotional events of ‘October 31st’ ends on a sad and poetic note, the poetic descriptive qualities of which are present through Handler’s amazing authorship. Synopsis Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. I had to read it almost all in one sitting as it gripped me and after reading I thought about it so much that I had to pick up some rubbish book to take my mind off The Basic Eight. She needs Gabriel, even though he has a barely requited crush on her. She needs Kate, despite her incessant gossiping. Tyrants, perverts, tragic crushes, gossip, cruel jokes, and the. ![]() It just completely appealed to myself as a teenager, though this wont stop older or slightly younger (not too young – you wont get important parts of the book) enjoying it. Description In their affluent San Francisco high school, Flannery Culp’s group, the Basic Eight, are dismissed as a pretentious clique, but to Flan they are indispensable. Flannery Culp wants you to know the whole story of her spectacularly awful senior year. The narrative structure is clever, the characters expertly drawn, but above all the greatness of this book comes from the narration through the eyes of the witty, sarcastic, unhinged, but above all teenaged Flannery. ‘I’m 17 and have read many books, but no book I have read can match The Basic Eight, by Daniel Handler as the most gripping, intense and moving account of a misunderstood teenager in american society. ![]()
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