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| Shallan96 |
 Sep 25 2003, 01:50 AM
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I checked back through all four pages and I didn't see a topic on this, but I'm so excited I may have missed it. Is anyone else a fan of Lemony snicket? How long have you been one? I discovered the series a little over a year ago, in the summer of 2002. I'd noticed them around and finally gave in. I found Book the Second and Book the Seventh at the library, and read those within a few days. I went back for more, but they weren't there. So I began going to Barnes & Noble and reading them there (yes, without buying them). I didn't want to have to pay $10+ for each book. I found them at Costco for a few dollars cheaper and bought all of my books there. I never could find them used. I'm only missing The Wide Window and the Unauthorized Biography (the biography being the only one I've not read). And the reason I created this thread... I hold in my hands - well, I would be holding it, if my hands weren't currently involved in typing - The Slippery Slope, Book the Tenth! Anyone else have it? I got mine at Borders a little bit ago. Unless they had others elsewhere on display, they only had two of the books! And I didn't have to pay full price either. 
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Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.
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| Imogen |
Sep 25 2003, 06:28 AM
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This book is seriously miserable. Please go away.  I'm not a fan of the books at all, although I've read the first eight of them. I think the marketing is simply brilliant for them - telling children not to read the books - but the books themselves just grate when I'm reading them. I think I've got a bit of a sense of humour clash with Mr Snicket, and try as I might, I can't get into them properly. I know a lot of other people are fans, and Carissa's opening a Snicket website soon. I'd imagine there's going to be a few other fans here as well. Imogen
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After her O.W.L.s Hope had managed to persuade her dad to give her a crash course in what he laughingly referred to as “Parseltongue for tourists”. Being in Slytherin, she’d thought it had been the epitome of cool to return to school with such useful snakey phrases as “Can you pass the apple pie, please?” and “Would you be good enough to tell me what time the train to Madrid departs from Platform Two?”
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| hockeygod |
Sep 1 2004, 07:16 PM
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I read the first one and loved it. I started the second one and liked it, but just didn't finish it. Should I pick it up and give it another try?
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| DanRadcliffeRoxmySox |
Dec 19 2004, 02:20 PM
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I love A Series of Unfortunate Events. but not as much as Harry Potter
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| GinnyBee |
Dec 22 2004, 04:48 PM
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I'm a huge fan. And the movie was awesome, I took my little sister to see it and she loved it, and she's only four!
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"You know Hobbes, somedays even my lucky rocketship underpants won't help." -Calvin and Hobbes.
I get days like that, but I trying to get used to the whole I'm living on the East Coast and haven't done that since I was six years old and I want to move back to San Fransisco and be with my dad and Grandmother, but instead I'm stuck with my Mom, stepdad, stepsiblings (Only one of which I can half tolerate) and annoying halfsister. But i'm trying to appreciate the things Philadelphia has that San fransisco doesn't, like snow. But that's the only thing I can think of.
And to the question I have been asked many times before on other boards: yes my name REALLY is Ginny, only it's not short for Ginevra or Virginia, it's short for Genevieve (pronounced Gin-eh-veev, not Gen-uh-veev or John-vee-ev, as I'm constantly correcting people, like my stepfather for example)
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Do you knowhow many L. Snickett is going to be writing? 
Thanks for your help....now I just have to get to the store to buy the others! 