Lemony Snicket's adult books (SPOILERS)

[Tim Regan (Intl Vendor)]

Lemony Snicket may have done it again. Mr Sniket's written an adult
book, "The Basic Eight". For his real name you'll have to Google the
title, since I'm still disappointed that he's let us behind the Snicket
persona. Is it his name? Suppose "The Basic Eight" is another book in
the series, but disguised as an adult book. However, before we follow
our Daniel into the lion's den, let's recap some facts from "The Basic
Eight". It's an adult book; children couldn't handler the sex, violence,
drugs, etc in the book. Even the cover art is enough to stop you for a
moment:
http://www.alisonandbusby.com/books/bookCover.asp?ISBN=0749005920. Then
I noticed weirdness creeping in. Remember in the Series of Unfortunate
Events (SoUE) when Snicket repeatedly pokes fun at Virginia Woolf?
There's the Virginia Wolfsnake in Uncle Monty's reptile collection
which, we are told, must not be let near a typewriter. There are Mrs
Dalloway references in "The Hostile Hospital", along with a reference to
"Orlando". Now, on the first page of "The Basic Eight" we're told by the
narrator / diarist / main character that "I am a woman with a room of
her own, just like what's-her-name". Then, when she wanders off to Death
Before Decaf for a date she takes Jerome D. Salinger's "Nine Stories"
and sits down to read the one entitled "For Esme with Love and Squalor".
I've picked through "The Basic Eight" trying to find more clues, codes,
and references. Some bits are tantalizing, the narrator's name "Flannery
Culp" seems too contrived to be true, then there's the character
referred to as V___, surely a reference to V.F.D. But I cannot find
codes, yet.
After all that, I don't think it's that good a book. It's gripping, but
the surprise ending that it builds up to and turns out to be the whole
purpose of the ending, and is way too obvious. It also lacks most of
what makes SoUE great.
Has anyone tried his other adult book "Watch Your Mouth"? It's billed as
"the best incest comedy you'll read all year".

Cheers,

Dumbledad.