Ther Series of Unfortunate Events

I came back here to see my thread still alive, and I myself am very suprised. I still havn't got around to reading the last two. Very sad I know but I have a very long book list, and no time to read them all.

loved the books.
It's been ages since I'd read them, but I still have a vague idea.
The story's plot is so bizarre, yet it makes sense in a weird, practical sort of way.
He is an amazing writer, don't you think?

I loved the books when I was nine and ten, but after I turned ten, they started losing their appeal. Part of it was I finally caught up to the author and so had to wait a year for the next book to come out... and during that time I grew up. Then another year, and I grew up even more. It was around that time that I realized that the writing level in the books was actually really bad (in my ten/eleven year old self's opinion). Still, I stuck with them for a while as a nod to my former enjoyment of the books, or maybe just my desire to continue liking them. While I waited for the next book to come out, I re-read them all and stuck with it until I ran out of books, and then stopped. It was fun to revisit the story, but I had out grown it. It just wasn't as enjoyable as it used to be.

Still, while I liked them, I really did like them. I especially loved the mystery of VFD. I remember spending a week in a hotel while mom attended a teacher's conference in Arizona, and the whole time, I was doing one of three things: Reading Lemony Snicket, Reading Calvin and Hobbs, or trying to crack VFD. I think I figured it out (in my own head, anyway, that's what I thought I did at the time) but to keep it a secret from my then four year old sister, I tore up the piece of paper and threw it away. The next morning I forgot what I had thought I had figured out. 'Twas disappointing. To this day, I still don't remember what it was. But it was pretty fun while it lasted.

Well, that just killed the mystery.

I thought the man was bloody serious.

At least about the having to be in hiding thing. Hm, now I'm feeling somewhat of a sour after taste.

I adore these books as well! Actually, Lemony Snicket's real name is Daniel Handler. He plays the accordion (I think he played in the band that produced the soundtrack of the series, the Gothic Archies) and no, Lemony Snicket is a fictional character/nom de plume. The series is written from the point of view of an actual character in the universe, Lemony Snicket.

Has anyone noticed how sometimes the words that Sunny spoke (when she was still saying 'nonsense') actually related to the topic at hand? For example, "Busheney" (from The Slippery Slope) means evil.

I couldn't stop reading these. The book are very well-written. They aren't stupid plots either, they're very thought out and intelligent. But the true genius behind these book is the characters. They are so versatile and smart. I also have to admit the Sunny the baby is the best. I'm also wondering about Snicket. Does anyone know if this stuff is true?


-Minister

HA! The ending. Nice little series. But.. is Lemony Snicket serious? Is he really in hiding? And for what? I've never gotten around to Googleing him.

I finished the full series a while back and I thought that The End was a good ending to have. Although, I would like to know what has become of the Quagmires...

I absolutely ADORE these books :) Snicket's humor reminds me of a more modern, more concise version of Charles Dickens' humor. He's so amazingly and cleverly sarcastic. I LOVE when Snicket diverts from the story to spend five pages talking about nothing of importance, it's positively hilarious. I also think his characters are amazing, even if they are not a major part of each book. Like Mr. Poe, for example. I love how every time Snicket mentions him, there is always some reference to the fact that all Mr. Poe ever does is cough. It makes me laugh so hard!
I mean, I suppose you have to have a certain sense of humor to find these books as amusing as I do. I know a lot of people I talk to just say the books are depressing, and they don't really see the humor in it. But I love this series very very much.

I loved these books. I really wasn't that fond of the story-- it upset me that so few people had even an inkling of common sense. But Lemony Snicket's storytelling is masterful. His way of defining vocabulary to fit the story, his absurd, dark sense of humor. I don't think I've read any story yet where the delivery was so masterful. I loved it so much I read the Unauthorized Autobiography; and I've always sat around wondering why he didn't make another series. He wrote the odd book here and there, but nothing else like that.

I loved this series. I remember pre-ordering and waiting for each book to come out. They fit very nicely together and each one offers something new to the table increasing the reading experience. I found myself going back and reading other books because they mentioned something that was important in the future, that seemed meaningless at the time. I love the combination of mystery and action. I highly recommend this series to everyone :].

I liked the series. The ending was... odd, but you couldn't expect anything else after everything that Lemony Snicket had written.

I think that the only really big bad part was that at the beginning of every book Lemony took a chapter to get into the events, but began with a giant essay about... something or another. It bored me to death... he could have totally come up with a better intro.

haha I liked them I still have to read the last two but I am getting there.

Personally, I loved them. The stories they tell are completely unrealistic, surreal, and unbelievable, but the way they're told was, in my opinion, fantastic. For me, the most important part of any book is the tone and the voice. A story can have an amazing plot, but if it doesn't have some kind of interesting, likeable or unique voice telling it, I'm not interested. This series had a tone that was at times lighthearted, at times depressing. It was subtle at points, then completely surreal at others. It was informative and mildly educational at times, and then at times it was hard to keep up with the seemingly unrelevant. That's what made me enjoy them so much; I'm a massive fan of style over substance stories

Personally, I didn't like it. They made me laugh because I couldn't take them seriously. And he kept interupting the story, which tends to bug me. :/

I used to enjoy them. That was before I decided to becom a writer and started stuyding books at an extremely critical point of view. I tend to rip apart books from cover to cover....

I want Violet to get with the guy triplet.

Love them. At least, I remember loving them. It's weird though, because in the last few books, the ones you're about to read {and maybe some in the last few you've read}, but the lightlightfluffylight tone that was especially in the beginning books is LOST in the last few. It gets a lot darker, but it's been hinting at that for a while, I think. So, enjoy them! =D I think I remember that the ending was so satisfactory to me, but that could just be my opinion. I wish there was more about the triplets. ANYWAYS! FUN!

-Hannah-

Haha, I actually really liked these. But, I read all of them so long ago I can barely remember them. I just know I liked them and my favorite person was Sunny, the baby. Haha.