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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Pretty much every minor character introduced in the entirety of the series is dead, Olaf is dead (harpooned by a man named Ishmael), Lemony Snicket's sister is dead, and the Baudelaires might be dead.
I appreciated how every book in the series except The End had a title where both of the words started with the same letter.
I used to love this series as a kid but hated that it never got around to answering the big questions. I still wanna know what the hell the sugar bowl was.
I liked it. There's some changes from the book and such but overall it's decent. Also visually it looks great. Same guy who did the cinematography for the movie also is the cinematographer for all of Alfonso Cuaron's films and some of the recent films of Terrence Malick.
The Tofunator
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There was one particular section (I forget which book) where the word "never" was repeated for at least 2 pages that had me rolling for a good while. I never finished the series for some reason, and it's somewhat disappointing to learn that not much got explained in the end.
Alcotholic
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I absolutely loved the series. The last 3 books were fairly disappointing though.
Yeah that thing was awesome. I remember there being a secret code in it to do with a film script where you would have to read every 10th word to get the message, and then if you used it on some of the pages in the main series you would get more hints for lore-related stuff. The Beatrice Letters were also awesome, they came with giant cut-out letters that you were meant to use to solve an anagram.
MidnightCowboy
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What a great series, loved reading them when I was younger.
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I only ever read the first book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I wonder how the book series holds up as an adult.
Not to jump on the "Telltale should make x game" train, but I think this series would be perfect for Telltale.
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Man, games could have been amazing. Oh well.
adamsappel
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I loved these books, though I didn't read all of them. I wanted to read them to my daughter when she was younger, but my wife vetoed that idea. She did start them on her own, but prefers his other series, All the Wrong Questions. We went to a reading by Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler and he was very amusing. He pretended to merely be Snicket's "representative"; my daughter was a volunteer from the crowd when he needed a demonstration and "to make things easier for him" he referred to every kid thereafter by her name.
Bringing back memories. We read the first three books in my fourth grade class. The movie came out either while we were reading them or right after we finished so we went on a fieldtrip to the movie theater. They actually sectioned off one of the rooms for the entire class. It was really cool.
I remember being legitimately confused when the movie started and this came up (sorry for the quality). I'm surprised they never made a sequel. The movie reviewed well. I remember reading that they originally were going to make another one but the kid actors all got too old. They then were going to try to make it claymation or something. But that never worked out. Jim Carrey did a great job though. And the overall tone of the movie was great.
I actually have the fourth and ninth books aswell. But I never finished them.
I remember being legitimately confused when the movie started and this came up (sorry for the quality). I'm surprised they never made a sequel. The movie reviewed well. I remember reading that they originally were going to make another one but the kid actors all got too old. They then were going to try to make it claymation or something. But that never worked out. Jim Carrey did a great job though. And the overall tone of the movie was great.
I actually have the fourth and ninth books aswell. But I never finished them.
I think there actually was one game. It was a little mobile puzzle solver where you were supposed to collect items and combine them I think. If I'm remembering this correctly, the first task was to find items to make Olaf's dinner.
Dragonborn
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Holy crap, that would be perfect. If only man. :/
A claymation sequel would have been incredible, especially if done in a style similar to something Tim Burton-esque, like Nightmare Before Christmas
twilitesparklemotion
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He's currently writing a prequel series about the question mark called All The Wrong Questions that's pretty fun.
matthewwhatever
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I read them all as an adult, and I loved them. The first few are a little childish, but after the third or fourth book, it really became amazing. I really need to start on his new series.
Orbis Tabula
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One of my favorite book series of all time. I think it could really use a re-read. Snicket's sense of humor is something that's very hard to match, but he's absolutely brilliant. I loved when he would say a word a kid might not know, followed by "a word which here means, ..." and occasionally have really specific definitions. I've liked the page on facebook and it's one of the few I haven't hidden, since it means I get a quote a day on my feed. Always makes me smile. He was brilliant with metaphor.
I did enjoy the movie adaptation, despite the changes it made. I'd really love for a new, successful take on the series to be done, just so other people could enjoy the fantastic story. It's hard to imagine how it would work as anything other than novels, though.
Very Fancy Doilies.
Lemony Snicket said:
I did enjoy the movie adaptation, despite the changes it made. I'd really love for a new, successful take on the series to be done, just so other people could enjoy the fantastic story. It's hard to imagine how it would work as anything other than novels, though.
Very Fancy Doilies.
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I'll have to check them out. Cool, thanks!
It was def volunteer fire department.
The sugar bowl, like many or some plotlinesnin the series are never truly resolved. One of the others being what happened to duncan
Well, at the start they were both pretty short and didn't exactly have the most complicated plots. Although elements of intrigue were introduced over time, the first five or six books are very similarly structured and plotted.
Woah, I did not know that. I'll have to check it out!
The movie is based on the first three books.
I only made it through the first book. I hate watching movies after reading the books, I spend too much of the movie comparing and not enjoying the movie so I waited..........
Everyone should try this series, seems to have flown under the radar but it's a great series. I'd make a thread but I'm not very good at it.
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Everyone should try this series, seems to have flown under the radar but it's a great series. I'd make a thread but I'm not very good at it.
Edge Chronicles
Thank you!
Moral Panic
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I think I read the first book, but the next one just seemed like a repeat so I dropped it.
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Make all of the kids CGI instead of just one, lol.
Beaniedude
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I read them all at the library and then bought all the books last year.
Seriously I love them. I love how he tells you which characters are going to die at the beginning but when he gets to it you still are surprised!
It's just so sad.
I love at the end of book 12 he sets up all of these questions and everything that is going to be answered then at the start of book 13 he just screws all of those and starts a pretty much stand alone story.
Praises cannot be high enough for this series.
I love it.
Seriously I love them. I love how he tells you which characters are going to die at the beginning but when he gets to it you still are surprised!
It's just so sad.
I love at the end of book 12 he sets up all of these questions and everything that is going to be answered then at the start of book 13 he just screws all of those and starts a pretty much stand alone story.
Praises cannot be high enough for this series.
I love it.
Discotheque
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i think i gave up at around book five because it just got too repetitive for me. but damn the design of these covers was so good.
dapperbandit
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I read them all and I remember being enraged that so much was left unanswered.
Like, what was in that sugarbowl that was so important?
What happened to those kids the Baudelaires meet halfway through? My memory is hazy but didn't they end up on a hot air balloon? What was the giant question mark thing they see on the radar in the underwater one (Grim Grotto I think).
I love a mystery and part of the magic is never revealing everything but god damn I was expecting something to happen.
Like, what was in that sugarbowl that was so important?
What happened to those kids the Baudelaires meet halfway through? My memory is hazy but didn't they end up on a hot air balloon? What was the giant question mark thing they see on the radar in the underwater one (Grim Grotto I think).
I love a mystery and part of the magic is never revealing everything but god damn I was expecting something to happen.
matthewwhatever
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I read an interview with Handler somewhere where he talks about what he proposed to do to get around the actors aging out of their roles. He suggested that the second movie start by showing the three child actors from the first movie all destitute and living on the streets, and say in a voiceover that the Baudelaires' story is so cursed, even the actors were affected by it. Then they'd start the story with new actors in the roles.
The studio hated the idea, but I love it. It totally fits the tone of the series.
FloppyDelux
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Guess ill just post the trailer for the show here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xer4VCa5-tg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xer4VCa5-tg
There's a show?!?!
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Yeah, this is how I felt. I loved this series all the way 'til the end, then I felt massively cheated at the total lack of resolution. Genuinely felt like the author ran out of ideas and just went "meh, call it a day there".
liliththepale
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That's really cool!
(this probably would have been the better thread, excepting a new one: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=927121)
Grover Cleveland
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Terrific series until The End.
Fuck that book and its lack of closure for the series.
Fuck that book and its lack of closure for the series.
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