Grab Your Edition Prohibido Hablar De Sexo. Confesiones De Un Adolescente / All The Dirty Parts Scripted By Daniel Handler Presented As Copy

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Lemony Snicket author, eh This could be interesting since it's billed as an adult book,

This is an intriguing book in that there are many questions in my mind: Because I'm old and don't really know, are today's teens that much more aware of their own sexuality and experiences Is this a book a librarian could recommend to a mature teen And what will younger teens think if they read it because they are Lemony Snicket fans Since is billed as a book for adults, will it appeal to them

This could easily appeal to older teens, especially if they read the Snicket books when younger however, it's most definitely a book with explicit adult content, even if the main character is a teen.
I'll be very curious to see if youth services librarians would consider giving this to any of their teen readers,

With all of that being said, it reminds me a little of when I read Judy Blume's "Forever" although "All the Dirty Parts" is much more graphic.


Thanks to the publisher for the advance reading copy, I'm not sure I needed to spendpages inside the mind of a sexcrazed teenage boy, Handler does it well but it will take a while for my blush to fade, There is the most beautiful and unexpected tenderness in this book towards the end so if you're uncertain early on, keep going! “Who can I complain to, if I dont like the shape of the globe”

That is a beautiful line.


And as I read this book, at first I was like, this is kinda cringey,
And then I was like, oh this is going a little deeper than I thought,
And then, as it went on, I was like, okay, okay, I get it now,
Because Im pretty sure, sad as it is, at one point or another in my life, this book was me, Last month, Handler ran an ad I mean, an essay in the New York Times claiming that the

way to encourage teenage boys to read is to give them books with lots of sex.
Among the titles he devoured as a teen was Milan Kunderas “The Unbearable Lightness of Being,” which may tell us all we need to know about the usefulness of Handlers advice for teachers and parents of reluctant readers.


But, as promised, he has now supplied us with “All the Dirty Parts,” a novel engineered to send young men into orgiastic fits of literary arousal.
As a former English teacher, I hope he succeeds, but I doubt he will, Filth simply isnt the precious commodity it used,

To read the rest of this review, go to The Washington Post:
sitelink washingtonpost. com/entert

To watch the Totally Hip Video Book this book, go to:
sitelink washingtonpost. com/video/ I don't review adult books generally and that's not really going to change right now, but I would just like to point out that the publisher is marketing this as "Adult" fare.
That said, there are going to be a lot of teen readers reading this, A. Lot. Highly recommend you read it too before your opinions coalesce,.STARS

I received an ARC of this novel from Bloomsbury Publishing in exchange for an honest review, All thoughts are my own,

This book was very strange, from the format it was written in to me it was paragraphs of Coles thoughts, to the way the words flowed across the page.
While I knew the novel would be quite sexual in detail, I was not prepared for the level of explicitness it had.
I think going into it knowing Daniel Handler is Lemony Snicket set me up a bit to be quite taken aback by the content.
ALL THE DIRTY PARTS was most definitely dirty it got very dirty and I'm still confused as to how I feel about it.


ALL THE DIRTY PARTS explores sexual desire, sexual addiction, and sexuality, I admit I was quite surprised at the inclusion of a same sex “relationship” from the synopsis I thought it would be all about girls and I was glad to see the exploration of sexuality included in the novel.


However, the book was too vulgar at times and weirdly overly descriptive, I felt uncomfortable reading about a teen boy masturbating and obsessing over sex.
I do understand it was deliberately overboard in order to carry across the thoughts of a sexually addicted teen however, I felt at multiple times that it was just too much aka the hummus part: this book has ruined hummus for me.


I did like that it came full circle for Cole he got to know what it felt like to be no longer desired by the person he was in love with.
He did it to multiple MULTIPLE girls throughout the novel It was satisfying to see a little karma, It was disappointing that it didnt really feel like he had learnt his lesson, though,
One positive note about the story: I didnt think that the woman/girls in this book were portrayed in a poor light, despite his use of them.
It did touch on the whole if a guy sleeps with a bunch of girls hes a legend, if a girl does it she is a whore, but it didnt go anywhere with it it was simply the view point of a teen boy who couldnt wait to have sex.


The novel comprised to me a series of Coles thoughts over a short time period, and there wasnt much of a story it was probably more of a vignette.
I expected a bit more from the "plot", but I felt that it fell short, Despite this, I did finish the book, and didnt really enjoy the ending,.moody broody confusing coming of age,

New adult Hmm, I guess I could see that, Maybe MATURE new adult with an artsy style,

I think I have a love hate relationship with All The Dirty Parts by Daniel Handler, How to explain that. Well, the moral of this story wasn't awful, It's actually what redeemed it for me, I'm giving this book aSOLELY because I liked how it ended,

Prepare to dislike the main character, You just will. If you don't. I'm not judging you. He just isn't very likable in my honest opinion, Does that mean I don't want to read about him Not necessarily, I finished and enjoyed the book even though the character and the style of writing were at times difficult,

The entire story felt very choppy to me, Maybe that's the authors writing style, Maybe it just isn't for me, It's told in one characters POV, Quick bits just thrown in there, Conversations with friends through text, Moments when they are having sex, That's about it. I don't think there was a moment that was longer than a page, The way it was written just didn't work for me, It came off very artsy, I never picked up on a flow to the story at all, I just felt like I was reading bad texts from last night, That didn't make you laugh or think, "yeah me too, " The thing is, despite all of that, . . I enjoyed the story and the eventual MORAL of the story,

Spoiler alert: The most interesting character in the story gets screwed over, I guess I actually like how things went for him though, Now if we could get a book about him, that has a bit better flow, I think it'd be a great addition to the genre, .