"These and other weighty matters are obsessively debated on the numerous unofficial Lemony Snicket Web sites and blogs that have sprung up since the series's inception, most notably 667 Dark Avenue (at asoue.proboards11.com), named for the sinister high-rent apartment building in the sixth book, "The Ersatz Elevator."
- The New York Times, Friday, October 13, 2006
Just a few vague ideas. Of course, we don't actually know what to expect from the next few months and years, but I have the odd time-filler idea to use if we need it. And I expect we'll be up to our usual Snicket-y Christmas activities.
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How active, roughly, is the board these days? I get that the ASoUE section is a lot less active than the general sections...
I only follow the aSoUE sections, but I think the social aspect is picking up the slack where the analytic aspect has necessarily fallen down following the birth of a dearth of things to speculate about - and that is the real problem, that there are no more mysteries to debate, no more titles to guess at. And of course, all Snicket's books since The End have been one-offs, independent. This should change when the new series starts coming out.
A bit early to be telling us but any news is better than Mr Snicket dying.
HE'S DYING?!?!?!?! *nearly dies herself*
As I suspect you are aware, Edwin's saying that it's better to hear news about Mr. Snicket's next books than, for example, something terrible like Mr. Snicket dying. As far as we know, Mr. Snicket is in rude health, as is Mr. Handler. If he died or grew very ill, it'd hit the headlines... and Egmont'd be kicking themselves for signing him too early.
And of course, all Snicket's books since The End have been one-offs, independent. This should change when the new series starts coming out.
I wonder if Snicket will drop a hint pertaining to any aspect in the new books. I agree with cwm, that he'll be writing in character, so I wonder if anything will drop a hint of a hint at the least, if you know what I mean.
"It's not the nouns. The miricle is the adverbs, the way things are done." -Adverbs
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Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #62 on Nov 5, 2009, 11:39am »
Well, it has just occurred to me that we may start getting information about the new books before the official launch of their promotion through things like interviews with Snicket - but they might not really start up again until the promotional efforts do. I do think we'll be given lots to anticipate, though, both before and during the new series.
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Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #64 on Nov 6, 2009, 3:07am »
Yeah, I agree. We know literally nothing about the new series right now apart from a projected release date and the number of books in that series, so there's really barely anything we can say - we can only speculate on things we might one day be able to speculate about, it's kinda silly. I guess that's a point, though. What's everyone's opinion on the new series being only four books long? That's a lot shorter than aSoUE, but consider also that your average book series these days is a trilogy, and they manage just fine.
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Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #65 on Nov 6, 2009, 4:02pm »
We also don't know how long those four books are going be- it could be the ASOUE average of three hundred pages, to eight hundred pages, and then you have to factor in font, and page size, and by then- since we still can't answer any of these questions- all we can do is wait and see. Unless, of course, something slips.
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Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #66 on Nov 6, 2009, 4:43pm »
Of course, aSoUE's individual volumes were not only relatively short, they were in a relatively large font. If you reduced the font size and remixed them, how many volumes would they occupy then? I do anticipate that the new books will be rather longer - or rather, comparable to the later books in aSoUE in length, at least. But you're quite right that we can only guess.
Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #67 on Nov 6, 2009, 6:11pm »
My guess is that the new series won't follow the 13 chapter structure, maybe a new 40 chapter structure for each installment?That'd make 160 chapters, pretty close to the number of chapters in ASoUE.
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Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #68 on Nov 7, 2009, 7:01am »
I think most series don't have any kind of rule on how many chapters they have. If Snicket ditches the thirteen-chapter rule - which I expect he probably will, since the new series doesn't have thirteen books - then I'd expect an average and inconstant number of chapters. Of course, how many to expect depends on the written style. Some books have new chapters every couple of pages; others have chapters that'd take up most of a normal book. Depends on length, too. I wouldn't want to guess as it depends too much on what the actual story is like. But completely offhand, I'd wager slightly more than your average aSoUE book. These new books could come as complete shocks to the system because we're so used to how aSoUE does things. That'll be fun.
Edit: Actually, what'd be really fun would be if the first book tried to trick us into thinking everything was the same as aSoUE, and then completely blew it apart. That'd be amazing. But again - depends on the story. Depends on if Handler is continuing aSoUE, reacting to aSoUE, or just going completely out on a limb with something new.
I'd wager slightly more than your average aSoUE book.
That's what I'd say. If he's only doing four, I doubt they'll be as short as an ASOUE book.
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These new books could come as complete shocks to the system because we're so used to how aSoUE does things. That'll be fun.
I think it'll be fun either way- an entire new style that we're not used to, or the typical Snicket-writing that we can compare and contrast to.
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Edit: Actually, what'd be really fun would be if the first book tried to trick us into thinking everything was the same as aSoUE, and then completely blew it apart.
Which aspect are you referring to when you say everything being the same as ASOUE? Plot, style, characters...
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Depends on if Handler is continuing aSoUE, reacting to aSoUE, or just going completely out on a limb with something new.
Which aspect are you referring to when you say everything being the same as ASOUE? Plot, style, characters...
Like, maybe, it looks like it has thirteen characters, the main characters are introduced as a bunch of miserable tormented orphans, etc., but then at the end there's another chapter and it skips to them being adults and they're mad scientists now. Something like that. Essentially, Handler messing with our heads.
Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #71 on Nov 7, 2009, 11:54pm »
They will probably be longer than a regular ASOUE installment I would guess, since there will only be four of them. And who knows, maybe Handler will decide to write more books for the series as time goes on, or perhaps he'll write spin-off books like he did with ASOUE.
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Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #72 on Nov 8, 2009, 4:28am »
Yeah, a four-book series needs expanding more than a thirteen-book one does (especially one which already has two spin-offs). Although four is still longer than the median series length, a trilogy. And if it takes place in the aSoUE universe itself, whether directly engaging with the original or existing some way off, it'll count as an expansion itself. I'm still betting on something completely fresh, though, looking at the example of the books Handler's written under his own name - none of them have anything to do with each other, although they share a few stylistic features.
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Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #73 on Nov 8, 2009, 12:55pm »
I think it would be neat if he wrote some part of the series- a prolouge, maybe- of how he finds the things he reasearched. Something like how he came across them, how he gets from place to place. Something first person, maybe.
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Re: Date Given For New Lemony Books Release!! « Reply #74 on Nov 8, 2009, 3:49pm »
That would be pretty neat! We only really get fragments of Lemony's life, usually comic, so a prologue or epilogue describing his wanderings and interviews would be interesting - at once sticking to and deviating from some of the conventions of the series. The Egmont press release does suggest that he'll be sticking to the "researching a case that really happened" aspect of things, although it could just be for promotional purposes.
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