Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

#88
Title: Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't AvoidAuthor: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2007
Genre: Humourous, Young Adult
168 pages
A little book of aphorisms, which I presume is intended either to be sincere but wry, or a parody of the little-book-of-pensees genre. Since the volume is attributed to Snicket, whose ouvre is extensive and whose voice is distinctive, it is regretable that the majority of these large-type entries are neither funny nor apt. Some simply read like bland, generic self-help aphorisms. I expect more from the man who introduced the word "cakesniffer" to my vocabulary.