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What's your opinion on Lemony Snicket's "Series of Unfortunate Events"?

>> No.3375273
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Absolutely in love with this series; I recommend it to anyone.

>> No.3375286

i read it as a kid, it was pretty damn interesting.
but not deserving of a movie.

>> No.3375294

Pretty good, honestly.
I thought it was better than Harry Potter.

>> No.3375734

I enjoyed it immensely. I wish there was an animated series based on it. Would be cool.

>> No.3375770

Fun books for kids, but go kind of off the rails at the end.

>> No.3375786

It was great. I'm glad whoever "Snickett" is had the balls to write something like this for kids, and that his publisher had the balls to back him.

It is true that the ending was a bit kooky.

>> No.3375832

>>3375786
>I'm glad whoever "Snickett" is

Daniel Handler. Kind of in with the Eggers / 826 Valenica crowd, I think.

>> No.3375846

I didn't like it. I thought the negativity thing was a nice gimmick at first but by the end it was" OK I get it enough already!"
It felt forced and unnecessary.

>> No.3375857

>go to make a thread
>post OP's pic
>"file is a duplicate"
>lolwat?
>find this thread
Pretty crazy right?

Anyway, I loved it when I was younger, I agree with >>3375770 it jumped the shark somewhere later on.

Anyway, would anyone recommend a similar type of book? Like with the narrator not REALLY being part of the story but somehow being intertwined with it and having a personality of his own?

>> No.3375903

>>3375770
this
but I think the fact that most people read up until the last book shows faith in the style and the author. For me, Lemony Snicket was my first badass writer and it made just about everything that happened in the books immensely enjoyable.

>> No.3375905

The books were good, and I think that the setting is one of the most remarkable things I have ever read, kind of a goth version of In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, if it was a book. However, the whole plot device of "Throw a bunch of spooky unexplained shit at the reader" that would later be used on Lost, is kind of hackish, especially considering when said shit turns out to be stupid (VFD, the sugar bowl, etc.)

>> No.3375913

I read the first couple in middle school. Didn't finish it until like my sophomore or junior year of high school. They were good. I thought the last two were the best in the series, no idea what you guys are talking about.

>> No.3375951

They are entertaining but i got kinda pissed around the 8th book when so much was promised and nothing ever got explained. I heard the ending jumped the shark anyway so I'm glad I stopped following it when i did.

>> No.3376108

Pre-Pynchon, if you ask me.
The last one sucked ass though.

>> No.3377217

>>3376108
"Pre-Pynchon" as in you can't go back to them once being gaped by Tommy boy?

>> No.3377229

>>3375857
>Like with the narrator not REALLY being part of the story but somehow being intertwined with it and having a personality of his own?

Every book by Vonnegut

>> No.3377501

>>3375286
Emily Browning wouldn't have had a career without the movie.

Did they ever do a second movie? Wasn't the first movie like a mashup of the first three or four books?

>> No.3377503

>>3375832
>826 Valencia

That's the non-profit for kids' literacy or whatever. McSweeney's is the accursed conglomerate you're referencing.

>> No.3377514

>>3377501
>Emily Browning wouldn't have had a career without the movie.
And this matters why /tv/?

>> No.3377526

>>3377514
because then she wouldn't have been naked in that one movie

>> No.3377535

>>3377526
I fapped hard to that scene. That little wisp of bush on an unconscious Browning... mmmmm. Of course, they kicked me out of the theatre.

>> No.3377554

does anyone else find the word 'bush' extremely unsexy

>> No.3378325

>>3377514
Otherwise her career would have began and ended with Sucker Punch.

Also,
>not /tv/ sucka

>>3377535
That scene? It's the entire fucking movie.

>>3377554
When I know it's within a sexual context and not in reference to the shrubbery it gets me hard.

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>>3378325
>mfw I flinched at "gets me hard"
I need to get laid

>> No.3378361

>>3378342
A completely shaved cooter creeps me out. So does the word "cooter." Ugh.

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>>3378325
>Bush
>When I know it's within a sexual context and not in reference to the shrubbery it gets me hard.

>> No.3379543

>>3378361
I think the word "cooter" is cute and funny, but "bush" is just ugly

>> No.3379574

>>3375786
/mu/ here. Fun fact: the author of this series, Daniel Handler, is actually a semi-member of the popular indie band The Magnetic Fields.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJsK2mSUwnM

>> No.3379592

Did you guys read the Unauthorized Autobiography?

I read it back when I first read this series and it explains a lot of the shit that goes on in the books.

>> No.3379721

>>3379574
No way! That's awesome.

>or at least it would be if that video wasn't blocked in my country