Adverbs

I picked up this book about different kinds of love by Daniel Handler, better known as the author of the Lemony Snicket series for kids, because Dave Eggers recommended it. He actually said,"Anyone who lives to read gorgeous writing will want to lick this book and sleep with it between their legs." I read the first three stories and gave up. I felt that Handler was trying to confuse me or maybe this is just a particularly difficult piece of post-modernism and I'm too uncool to get it. It is very difficult for me to set aside a book unread and I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times I have done so. I have made my painful way through reams of tortured prose over the years. My self discipline in this regard is exemplary. I am of the belief, perhaps misguided, that only the weak of character do not finish what they start. I placed Adverbs in the give away box and no, I did not sleep with it between my legs before I did so.