Ahahahahaha, that is an amazing present.

The parenting is depicted…very negatively. I would say if bad parenting in fiction bothers you, this is emphatically not for you. Stay miles away. Miles.

(See how I am helping you in not adding books to your pile? By being emphatic?)

The poem is sad. Philip Larkin was a sad dude. But it’s pithy!

I shall put the word “souffle” in my next set of tags. Promise. (If I remember. I am often dumb and forgetful.)

Hahahahaha, I have to admit I do get a kick out of seeing swear words in pomes by Reputable Poets.

Yeah, this isn’t a post to sway the uncertain. Except possibly the Philip-Larkin-uncertain.

I have books like that, where I keep checking them out and returning them unread. It can be such a good feeling to finally get through them.

Indeed? Well, yay! I am happy to have introduced you to it!

I too was sort of rooting for the parents to have been dismembered at the rest stop. But I knew they weren’t. I knew they were doing a trick. I just wanted the trick to involve their actual deaths, in the end.

Would I like The Radleys?

Just in the interests of full disclosure, the hoaxes the Family Fang produces sometimes do have the intention of humiliating people and distressing them for longer then a minute or two. In case that makes a difference in your wanting to read it.