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All the Dirty Parts
All the Dirty Parts | Daniel Handler
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From bestselling, award-winning author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket), an eagerly anticipated, gutsy, exciting novel that looks honestly at the erotic lives and impulses of an all-too-typical young man. Cole is a boy in high school. He runs cross country, he sketches in a sketchbook, he jokes around with friends. But none of this quite matters, next to the allure of sex. "Let me put it this way," he says, "Draw a number line, with zero is, you never think about sex, and ten is, it's all you think about, and while you are drawing the line, I am thinking about sex." Cole fantasizes about whomever he's looking at. He consumes and shares pornography. And he sleeps with a lot of girls--girls who seem to enjoy it at the time and seem to feel bad about it afterwards. Cole is getting a reputation around school--a not quite savory one--which leaves him adrift and hanging out with his best friend. Which is when something startling begins to happen between them--another kind of adventure, unexpected and hot, that might be what he's been after all this time. And then he meets Grisaille. A companion piece to Handler's Why We Broke Up, the bestselling Michael J. Printz Honor novel, All The Dirty Parts is an unblinking take on the varied and ribald world of teenage desire in a culture of unrelenting explicitness and shunted communication, where queer can be as fluid as consent, where sex feels like love, but no one knows what love feels like. Structured in short chapters recalling Jenny Offill's Dept. of Speculation or Mary Robison's Why Did I Ever, the novel gives us a tender, brutal, funny, and always intoxicating portrait of an age in which the whole world is tilted through the lens of sex. "There are love stories galore," Cole tells us, "and we all know them. This isn't that. The story I'm typing is all the dirty parts."
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NataliePatalie
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I have read every single Daniel Handler book hoping I would enjoy it as much as I enjoyed A Series of Unfortunate Events or seeing him at book events. But I think it's just time to admit that that won't be happening any time soon.

Blueberry He is SOO funny at book events. 6y
NataliePatalie @Blueberry Yeah! And I would go see him again. I just haven't liked any of his adult novels :( 6y
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EyeEssBeeEn
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I really enjoyed the way this book was written. A new take on the old teen romance novel. Very enjoyable and surprisingly insightful.

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AmberB1
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Imagine reading a book like 50 Shades but having only the dirty parts to tell the story. That‘s what this book is. When I picked it up, I didn‘t make the connection but a couple pages in, it becomes obvious that extraneous details are left unwritten. I‘m actually impressed with how the author could tell this story. Oh and it‘s written by the author of the Series of Unfortunate Events, just under a different name.

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melissajayne
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Thought it was okay. Didn‘t like the first portion of the book; improved as I got towards the end of the book. #weekendreads. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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melissajayne
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Going to read this this morning #weekendreads. Need something short this morning.

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ReadingwithKate
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It's exactly what it says on the tin.

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ReadingwithKate
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The best part of the book, imo.

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Spiderfelt
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Handler is not exaggerating; this book is all the dirty parts. I need to wash my eyes out with soap after finishing that one. This is the tale of a self centered, smooth talking, callous boy who lacks any empathy for the people he uses. This is not 80s Judy Blume; this is teens living with easy access to porn in their pockets and casual hookups. As a parent of teens, it made me uncomfortable and sad. Sexuality is complex, now more than ever.

Cinfhen GREAT photo 💚 7y
Spiderfelt Sherman Alexie had a conversation onstage with Daniel Handler about this book. They are both the parents of teenage boys. Two of my library coworkers attended the event, and said they were hilarious together, and also realistic about why this book had to be written, and why parents should look this material in the eye. I read it with those words in mind, as my responsibility to this generation. (edited) 7y
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WanderingBookaneer
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I'd forgotten I had preordered this! #KindleSurprises

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heikemarie
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I didn't think it would be one I liked, but I finished this one in an afternoon! It's like Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret, but for much older boys/young men. Review up on my blog if you'd like more info.
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Jokila
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"All the Dirty Parts" is a reference to high-school lothario Cole sharing the details of every conquest with his bestie Alec, but also a sly nod to the novel's format of skipping exposition, punctuation, and flitting back and forth through time in a narrative composed entirely of brief vignettes. It allows Handler to say a lot about the highs and lows of discovering sex in very few words. No fat here, just a novel that kisses the line of poetry

minkyb Love "kisses the line of poetry." 7y
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BooksAndLipstick
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I got sent an ARC copy of this book from @Bloomsbury_Publishing and I am so grateful for it! It's an absolutely incredible book that is about a teenage boy and his sexual experiences and it also deals with sexuality. It's a fantastic book and it's so well written, the layout is unusual but it's brilliant at the same time

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ReadingRover
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Daniel Handler was quite the character! Once I got to the front of the line and finally met him I understood why it had taken so long. He's not only a literary genius but also quite the comedian! #BEA17

christineandbooks This picture is the best! That look he's giving you is hilarious! How awesome to have met him... 7y
ReadingRover @christineandbooks He was so freaking funny! He made faces like that for all the pics! So many people didn't even know!!! I saw & couldn't wait to have a pic of him doing it! And you should have heard him telling us about all the sex in his book! One librarian said"so it's not for YA" & he was like "well it depends on how liberal the parents are because there's a lot of sex. Like a lot a lot of sex w/all the details and stuff!" Hysterical! 7y
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Alan
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A coming of age story proving that authorial experimentation is great and that readerly insistence on a happy (or a tidy) ending is fallacious.