"329"^^ . . "The Basic Eight"@en . "39756403" . "ISBN 0-312-19833-7(1st edition)" . "The Basic Eight is the debut novel by author Daniel Handler published in 1998. The book contains a number of sarcastic plot devices that ridicule high school English classes, standardized testing, satanic panic and talk-show analysts. For example, Handler labels foreshadowing explicitly as such. In addition to creating a farce on high school English, he includes vocabulary words and study questions at the end of some of Culp's diary entries."@en .