book the 13th - The End

jollyholiday · Post by **jollyholiday** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:14 pm

Our family is anxiously awaiting the release of Book the 13th of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The End, releasing this October on Friday the 13th.

Any other SoUE fans on the board? It certainly is a dark series, but clever as well.

Lord_Kappa · Post by **Lord_Kappa** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:22 am

A VERY clever series. So morbid too, I love it. $\:D/$ ... I wonder if there's something wrong with me.

I put the book on hold at my library, I hope that I get it right when it comes out, I can't wait!

What do you think happens in The End?

Ferder · Post by **Ferder** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:39 am

And don't forget before The End comes The Beatrice Letters. Hopefully it won't give away too many of the secrets until The End.
The giant ? mark in the Grimm Grotto better be explained....

jollyholiday · Post by **jollyholiday** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:54 pm

I think the Beaudelaire children will continue to have to make difficult decisions about who to align themselves with. I love how Daniel Handler has created this situation in which the children start from a very idealistic black and white right and wrong perspective and have gradually discovered that there are no perfect people. People they perceive are good do bad things and people they perceive as bad do good things. The big question for me is whether the children and their parents were really on the good side to begin with...

Lord_Kappa · Post by **Lord_Kappa** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:59 am

Daniel Handler? Who's that?
I think I should go re-read the books, I am foggy on a lot of the details.

the_newfie_haystack · Thu Aug 24, 2006 11:48 am

Lord_Kappa wrote:Daniel Handler? Who's that?
I think I should go re-read the books, I am foggy on a lot of the details.

I suspect that's Lemony Snicket's real name.

Haystack

jollyholiday · Post by **jollyholiday** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 1:11 pm

Daniel Handler is the actual name of the author of A Series of Unfortunate Events.

Lord_Kappa · Post by **Lord_Kappa** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:46 pm

Where did you find this information jollyholiday? Thanks for letting me know that, I never knew what his name really was.

jollyholiday · Post by **jollyholiday** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:58 pm

Lord_Kappa wrote:Where did you find this information jollyholiday? Thanks for letting me know that, I never knew what his name really was.

I'm not sure where I first heard it, but I've heard/read it many places.

If you want to hear an interview with him, just go to iTunes and do a search on Daniel Handler. There are a couple of podcast interviews with him on there that you can download for free. Both of them include discussions about his work on A Series of Unfortunate Events and some discussion about the adult fiction that he has written as well.

I wouldn't recommend any of his adult fiction to anyone here, it is definitley not kid or young person friendly stuff.

-jolly

Lord_Kappa · Post by **Lord_Kappa** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:20 pm

Yeah I noticed that from the Wikipedia article. (I love Wikipedia!

)
It's sad that his other books are so terrible too,

he has such skills as an author.
I am a stickler for British authorship, so we'll just keep the fact that he's American on the down low.

jollyholiday · Post by **jollyholiday** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 2:05 pm

Do any of you also listen to the SoUE audio books narrated by Tim Curry? They all have songs (kind of a theme song) per book that are done by a music group called, The Gothic Archives. They are releasing a disc with all of the songs on October 10th.

The link is here:

http://lemonysnicket.com/VileVideos/gothicarchies.cfm

Additionally...Tim Curry does the audio for books 1,2 and 6-13. Daniel Handler does the audio for books 3,4 and 5 because Tim Curry wasn't available. If you are a fan of audio books at all, these (especially the Tim Curry book) are very very good.

Post by **Catspaw** » Fri Sep 01, 2006 10:36 pm

I should read all these books sometime - I've heard good things, but never gotten around to reading any of them.

And anything with Tim Curry sounds good! $\:D/$ *loves her StoryKeepers movies, with Tim Curry as everybody's favourite character, Nero!* $\:D/$

Arwen · Post by **Arwen** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 8:04 pm

Ooh! When do the Beatrice Letters come out? I love the series. I love how the pieces are starting to fit, and I can ALMOST figure it all out...but not quite.

As soon as I'd found out that the last book was coming out in October, I went to the calendar to see if the 13th was a Friday. As soon as I saw that, I was like: "Yep, that's when the book's coming out." I can't believe that was almost a year ago. Only a little more than a month left!

I was amazed at the last book (the only book in the series I own: I couldn't wait for the library to get it), and how much of a Christian theme could have been put in there. It was almost...deep. I think maybe during this next month I'll reread all of the books again (maybe I'll even take notes and make predictions).

*Is getting very excited*

Linne · Post by **Linne** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:06 pm

I love aSoUE! I can't wait for the last one! I'm so confused...I don't figure things out well.

Crazy 4 Pugs · Post by **Crazy 4 Pugs** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:18 am

Yeah, I tried taking notes, and my brother said I'm crazy. Let's just overlook the fact that he obsessed over Lord of the Rings for FOUR YEARS before he was allowed to see it.
Has anybody read Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography? It's got some random clues about the series.

Ferder · Post by **Ferder** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 12:34 pm

I'm still trying to decide whether I should read Beatrice Letters. I'm worried that it will contain spoilers for book the 13th. I know The Unauthorized Autobiography pretened that it was going to contain tons of spoilers but ended up not (it just had some obscure clues instead), so I'm wondering if this is a similar deal.

Lord_Kappa · Post by **Lord_Kappa** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 9:18 pm

I haven't been able to find the Beatrice Letters yet...

I guess I'll just read it after the 13th book.
I haven't read the Unnoficial Biography yet either, I want to badly.

Ferder · Post by **Ferder** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 7:33 pm

Lord_Kappa wrote: I haven't read the Unnoficial Biography yet either, I want to badly.

You've really got to. Besides the fact that it contains the first mentions of important stuff like the Sugar Bowl, it's a very funny read. Just to warn you though, it's not directly about the Baudelairs, but instead about the crazy mystery-filled world that they and Lemony Snicket are in. Also, nothing is very clear most a mix of obscure clues and (assumingly) meaningless ridiculousness.
Don't you have a library where you live? (even if it doesn't have the book, you could order from another library if your library has a inter-library-loan program)

Lord_Kappa · Post by **Lord_Kappa** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:28 pm

Yes I have a library, that's where I've gotten all the Unfortunate books. They don't have the Beatrice letters,

and I just haven't had time to get the autobiography.
I'll put it on my list of books to read, which is longer than anything.

sweet pea · Post by **sweet pea** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 9:13 pm

Golly Gee Whilikers!!! i love these books my friend got me hooked .
im on the 11th right noe Grimm Grotto im about to start it .
cant wait for letters to beatrice. i like to read the beginings .
to beatrice !

im wondering who he'll end the series, he has to break his rule about no happy endings .. or he could leave us hanging ... hmm

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