How Unfortunate, a word which here means lamentable.

[GeorgeMichael]

A Series of Unfortunate Events :)

I've recently picked up once more what used to be one of my favorite novels, a word which here means a fictitious story of considerable length, and have begun to question my adoration of it. As I've been rereading for the first time this book that I haven't looked at since I was around 12 I am coming to the terms that near the beginning of the series these kids seem to be very rude in what they say, which is fine, the writing seems a bit juvenile, again acceptable, and that Lemony Snicket tends to define the most simplest of words and phrases, a word which here means a series of words often heard together.


I still like these books a lot but as I've gotten older I've come to find more and more faults in the books, especially my dissapointment with The End, which here not only means the end of the series but also the title of the last book.


What does anyone else who has read the books think? Do you all think that it was an interesting style in which Lemony Snicket wrote them, I sure do, but I sometimes ponder, a word which here means to think intently think over something, on whether or not it was a really good choice.


and as sunny would say "Blika!" Which to any others but her siblings would sound just like 'Blika' but her siblings would understand that she meant something like "Let's discuss this unique writing style"





:) And yes, that was very fun to write :)

[Starry]

I know exactly what you mean! It's so depressing sometimes to go back to a book or series you've always loved or considered one of your favorites, only to find that your standards or your taste has changed and they don't seem all that great anymore. It might just be that you aren't really all that into that sort of story anymore. It's sad, but think of all the great new books you can discover now!

Personally, I never like A Series of Unfortunate Events all that much. I only read the first nine though, and by the time I read them I was already into a 700-page or longer book phase. I always thought they were too unrealistic to be played out in a real-world setting, and the narrator seemed too much like he was trying too hard to be funny. But that's just my opinion.

[Carraka]

I liked the first few books of The Series of Unfortunate Events, but after a while they weren't as interesting -- I can't pinpoint why -- maybe they were all too similar, or maybe they didn't seem to be nearing any conclusion. I was still interested enough to read them when the new books came out, even though my interests were moving out of the children's section, skipping the teen section, and diving into the adult. And of course, The End was an incredible disappointment ...

On the other hand, I love to tell people that The End helped me enjoy Deathly Hallows because it cultivated an extremely low expectation for the final volumes of long series. And then DH surpassed those low expectations.

The best example I can give you of my tastes changing would be The Inheritance Trilogy. And then there would be more obvious stuff, like The Secrets of Droon or Magic Treehouse or Clifford.

[Guessed]

I am proud to state that I still haven't read The End since it was presented to me on a birthday long past! I did flip it open to a random page, as is my custom with new books, and of course I had the unluckiness for that page to contain Olaf's death.

The rest of the series is really great, IMO, for grade schoolers and middle schoolers. Heck, highschoolers too if they have a strong inner child. I still remember singing the Volunteers Fighting Disease song with friends on the playground as we marched around giving people various heart-shaped things. Good times. It filled you with a desire to make strange inside jokes about sugar bowls with your friends, much to the embafflement of everyone else.

Lemony Snicket, or whatever his real name is, has a great literary technique that's taught me plenty of words that I've given heavy use since (Like all those synonyms for "mysterious" at the beginning of his "autobiography"). I'm sure that rereading the books would be a disappointment, as is the case with practically everything I've loved as a child, so why break out of my happy nostalgic shell?

[lango]

The End killed the book for me, but honest, his "extra book", forgot the name of it since I have it in portuguese (the one with the fake cover of "the littlest elf") is, for me, one of the most amazingly senseless/funny things ever written :P His description of the woman's clothes right at the beginning is simply priceless

[Guessed]

Never heard of that, but I do have "The Pony Party!" ("Book #1!") which provided me with hours of gigglings back in the day. It also had hidden messages and acronyms up the wazoo.

[Lykaios]

I liked the first few books and read them also up to book nine. Book ten I just forgot about after chapter two, book eleven I didn't read past the first chapter, book twelve I skipped and The End bored me stupid so I only read up to the bit where Olaf died, and then gave up as I knew it wouldn't be a good 'end'.

[Midnight_Moon]

I read the first book of "Series of Unfortunate Events". I could bare reading any more. It was so... unfortunate.