A Series of Unfortunate Events

[penandpaper67]

Okay I'm starting a new thread, mostly because I'm bored. Hopefully we will get more members after my banner gets made and I can actually advertise the guild, and then people will actually be commenting. Yea! Oh well, kind of off topic. Anyways, over winter break I've been rereading A Series of Unfortunate Events. Unlike Twilight, these are actually manageably sized. I don't really think the story gets going until about the fifth or sixth book, maybe even the seventh, but for some reason my favorite is the fourth. For those who haven't read them, there are thirteen books in the series, plus numbers of companion books, puzzles, calendars, and many other sorts of merchandise. There was a movie made a while ago, but it was horrible. It smushed the first three books into one and moved the end of the first book to after the third book. Oh well. They really good, fast reads, with a nice humorous twist. They're pretty light reading and are really meant for elementary/middle schoolers, but if you haven't read them or if you started the series but didn't finish it, then you really should read them. Lemony Snicket has a very different style of writing from most authors because the narrator is actually a minor character who very rarely shows up in the story line, but is actually researching the events after they happened. Ignore his warnings though. They aren't even worth looking at. His books aren't dreadful at all.... Otherwise this post wouldn't be here. razz  

[5 to midnight]

Cool. The movie was interesting enough I guess. I haven't read the books but hey, you never know.  

[penandpaper67]

The movie was horrible (shudder). Like Eragon... xd  

[5 to midnight]

My Friend, pretty much anything is better than Eragon.  

[penandpaper67]

That's not true! Let me think.... Hmmmmmm.... Worse than Eragon, worse than Eragon...... Okay, I give up. But the answer is out there! There is something worse than Eragon! (We're talking about the movie, not the book, for those who don't know.)  

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So what about the other books in this series? Are they any good?  

[penandpaper67]

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Yeah, I'm on The Slippery Slope, which is pretty good (it's book 10). I'm planning on finishing it tonight. I don't know. I tend to like the more violent ones for some reason. In my favorite one, The Miserable Mill, the middle sibling, Klaus gets hypnotized by the evil associates of Count Olaf (the villain of the series) while working in a lumber mill. In The Hostile Hospital, which is another of my favorites, Violet, the oldest sibling, gets captured by Count Olaf and is sent to surgery where her head is almost cut off. I also like The End (obviously the last book), but I'm kind of disappointed because so many mysteries are started in the series that never were solved. The End is really hard to explain unless you've read a lot of the other books. Oh, and my descriptions may be a real turn-off, but they're not gruesome or any thing like that. They might even be labeled as "cute," although that is a little unlikely.  

[5 to midnight]

Interesting description. 3nodding  

[penandpaper67]

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Thanks. I'm on The Grim Grotto now, which is okay, but not my favorite. There's kind of a soap opera feel about it because there's this girl and she befriends the Baudelaire orphans (especially the middle one Klaus). But then they get captured by Count Olaf and they realize that one of Count Olaf's associates is the long lost brother of this girl, so she ends up betraying the Baudelaires after her stepfather abandoned her. So yeah, I've obviously made my point.  

[5 to midnight]

Yeah.  

[penandpaper67]

I actually finished that one last night. I'm on the Penultimate Peril now. This is where it gets hard to describe the books without really giving major plot details away.  

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Ah! You read books so fast! eek  

[penandpaper67]

Yeah, now I'm on The End. I forgot how little time the series actually takes place over. The last four books are pretty much over the course of one week. Well, actually it's more like one and a half, but whatever.... rolleyes  

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I've read them all already.  

[penandpaper67]

I actually read them a while ago, I just felt like refreshing my memory. 4laugh