AMAZING children's series... much more to them than you would think. But the books don't really get deep until after the third or fourth.
What I find most interesting about these books is the underlying story of what happened to VFD and Beatrice and why Lemony Snicket is running for his life.
I love the books dearly and I respect the movie version, though it has almost none of the subplot from the books. But it would be a bit more complicating to try to get into a movie....
Evil little girl
Darkness hiding in her soul
Body full of worms
OH!!!!
I mentionned in MANY forums to make one of these...funny, i don't recall this one...
I've read ALL of the books yet out (1-11 plus LSUA)
I get like atleast 4 emails from various sites for clubs and stuff. I have a log of over 60 VFD members.
THE movie was a huge disapointment...
can anyone say BUTCHERED???
When life seems over, there's aways a light. Love may remain shadowed and distant, but it is near when you open up, fate decides.
As I've said before, I think it was a different rendition of it, and I don't think they butchered it.
They actually let Daniel Handler try to write the screenplay, and even he admitted every time he tried, it turned out horrible.
He thinks the movie is very good the way they did it.
But you, you're crazy, and I like you.
I can see where's he coming from. I'm adapting my own novel to my own screenplay, and it's driving me mad...They actually let Daniel Handler try to write the screenplay, and even he admitted every time he tried, it turned out horrible.
It's a hell of a lot harder to do than I thought it was going to be.
'Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap. And he, a little charleychaplin man, who may or may not catch her fair eternal form spreadeagled in the empty air of existence.' - Laurence Felinghetti, 'The Acrobat'
Well, they took everything out, changed it and placed it back in in an incorrectly sequenced order according to the books, giving it an end it never had, changed facts from the books, like the hand-switch at the merivolous (not marvelous, merivolous is an uncomon word meaning untrue and horrid).
When life seems over, there's aways a light. Love may remain shadowed and distant, but it is near when you open up, fate decides.
Ages ago i read the first two books in the series and can remember them being quite good but they were very short so paying £6 every time or whatever it is seems a rip off. Plus i never end up going the library so i never carried on reading the series.
They get longer though. Book Eleven is... 323 pages. I brought the first book years ago for my brother as a Christmas present, he never read it so I did, and got hooked. I pay around $15 - $25 per book, but brought the majority of them for $25 cause I brought seven of them overseas on holiday
'Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap. And he, a little charleychaplin man, who may or may not catch her fair eternal form spreadeagled in the empty air of existence.' - Laurence Felinghetti, 'The Acrobat'
we pay 11.99 for each book here.
which is like... probably about 6-8 pounds for you brits <3
(i dont have a pound sign on the keyboard)
in canada, im not sure how much they are. probably around 15 whatevers. looneys?
i think its worth it. they are seriously beautiful books, both in content and look. but im wondering now. they are american books, so when they go oversees, do they change some of the words for europe? they stopped doing it so much for harry potter, if anyones noticed. that just always gets me curious.
nah. Book 11, I hated it.
In my opinion, it was horrible, and I threw it out of a window. Really.
Yours Truly,
An Avid Liar
They've re-published the books now with the new cover cause of the movie, but I'm hoping they keep going with the the normal cover for Australia...
I don't think they're different. My covers I believe reflect those shown on the site.
'Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap. And he, a little charleychaplin man, who may or may not catch her fair eternal form spreadeagled in the empty air of existence.' - Laurence Felinghetti, 'The Acrobat'
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