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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Jan 28, 2015 21:04:16 GMT -5
I don't like how long it is, personally. Plus it just doesn't sound clever or mysterious. I think WCTBATH was the best title.
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Post by Dante on Jan 29, 2015 3:22:52 GMT -5
?1 had the best title as a series of words, but it may have been the worst in terms of relevance to the plot. Then again, ?3's title is never actually asked by Snicket as the wrong question, so that's a pretty glaring error. I quite like ?4's title. I like that it's quite verbose and longer than the other titles in the series, that it's going to be troublesome to fit on the cover at all, and I do find it somewhat amusing and intriguing. I feel like there's a lot it can suggest.
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Post by Cafe SalMONAlla on Jan 29, 2015 4:44:50 GMT -5
In fact, not only did the title of ?1 have little to do with the plot, but the early promo material was the same. I acknowledge that avoiding spoilers may have been part of why, but from looking at the majority of the promos, you'd think that The Fall was the single most pivotal part of the book.
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Post by Dante on Jan 29, 2015 7:05:31 GMT -5
Well, in a sense it is the turning point of the book, and ?1 is a bit of a curiously-structured text in that the story doesn't really have a climax.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Jan 29, 2015 12:39:14 GMT -5
Yes, I also noticed that ATWQ's titles are quite random (they're either irrelevant or just one of many equally wrong questions) and are without the structure DH seems to want them to have. ?2 and ?3 are the best at revealing what the book's plot is about, but at the same time are kind of boring (and aren't actually "wrong questions"... at least they're more right than the other two books' title questions).
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Post by gliquey on Jan 29, 2015 14:06:58 GMT -5
Yes, I also noticed that ATWQ's titles are quite random (they're either irrelevant or just one of many equally wrong questions) and are without the structure DH seems to want them to have. ?2 and ?3 are the best at revealing what the book's plot is about, but at the same time are kind of boring (and aren't actually "wrong questions"... at least they're more right than the other two books' title questions). I agree. I don't think any of the title questions have been wrong to ask - the closest thing to suggesting their futility is on the first page, Snicket suggests something better to ask. It's not like he couldn't ask both "When did you see her last?" and "How could someone who was missing be in two places at once?", and the latter (supposedly the correct question) doesn't make sense until he has the relevant context - it's an illogical thing to ask at the point he first asks "WDYSHL?" The whole thing kind of seems to fall apart when you take a proper look at it.
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Post by Hermes on Jan 29, 2015 14:25:24 GMT -5
This goes back to The Unauthorized Autobiography, where the 'wrong' questions are really just as pertinent as the 'right' ones.
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