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Post by Jacques Snicket on Mar 1, 2015 15:51:08 GMT -5
This is kind of off-topic, but every single time I read that tagline, I think it says "time travel" and feel weirded out. That was my first instinctual thought as well.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Mar 1, 2015 20:58:33 GMT -5
Similarly, I keep thinking this thread is called "?4 Porno Synopsis" and feeling weirded out. How pomo (.....post modern)
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Post by Dante on Mar 2, 2015 6:45:26 GMT -5
The release date appears to have been bumped back a week - it's now listed as 29th September. Still less than a year since ?3!
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Post by tfrisch on Mar 5, 2015 19:36:26 GMT -5
I hope it has the most pages out of the whole series.
And I don't mean 5 pages more I'm talking 100.
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Post by bandit on Mar 5, 2015 19:38:57 GMT -5
It might have to be, if only so the title will fit on the spine.
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Post by Dante on Mar 6, 2015 3:43:24 GMT -5
tfrisch, if you have something to add to a post shortly after making it, in future could you use the Edit button found in the upper-right corner of your post, please? I hope it has the most pages out of the whole series. And I don't mean 5 pages more I'm talking 100. I think we probably all hope that it will be a lot longer. Sadly, early page counts from retailers are never reliable, so there's no saying for sure what the length of the book will be until we get our hands on it, but there is one worrying sign: Hachette's website, the publisher's, seem to have the page count roughly right each time if you take about a dozen or twenty pages from the figure they give, and... they list ?4 as being longer than ?2 but shorter than ?3 by quite a bit. I'd really like to read a really long book from Lemony Snicket one of these days, though... but I guess that might challenge the thirteen-chapter format. Most of the books he writes these days (even We Are Pirates as Daniel Handler) fall around the three hundred mark. It might have to be, if only so the title will fit on the spine. I assume the front cover is going to have to fit the title into three lines, so the spine might fit it into two lines. That, or a big drop in type size - which is how they handled varying title lengths for the spines of ASoUE volumes.
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Post by tfrisch on Mar 6, 2015 15:28:45 GMT -5
Sorry, I'm still new here , I will make sure in the future. SYBIS is very close to The Penultimate Peril in page numbers, TPP being the longest in ASOUE. I was surprised about this, I felt like TPP was much longer. SYBIS 336, TPP 353
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Post by gliquey on Mar 6, 2015 16:43:36 GMT -5
SYBIS is very close to The Penultimate Peril in page numbers, TPP being the longest in ASOUE. I was surprised about this, I felt like TPP was much longer. SYBIS 336, TPP 353 That's interesting. I would have thought ?3 (SYBIS) was longer for some reason, although I can see why you would think TPP was longer. TPP is long and confusing; it seems like far more happened in it than ?3. I have no idea why ?3 feels longer to me. It's weird to think that they're about the same.
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Post by M David Steel on Mar 6, 2015 17:10:37 GMT -5
Unless you look at/notice the page number at the end, you dont really think anything. Probaly because they all have the same number of chapters.
Lemony says he was almost thirteen but will he actually turn thirteen at the end?
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Post by Dante on Mar 6, 2015 17:15:34 GMT -5
There's a hint near the end of ?3 that, to me, says that he became thirteen that day. I guess we'll find out when we get the first lines of ?4, probably.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on Mar 7, 2015 3:35:29 GMT -5
I think each ATWQ book has more plot than each UE book. UE was generally slower paced and had a lot more narration from snicket.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Mar 7, 2015 10:25:55 GMT -5
True, I did/do miss the opening narrations Snicket did in each chapter of ASoUE, but ATWQ seems to compensate with more action.
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Post by M David Steel on Mar 7, 2015 10:33:48 GMT -5
yes how he would often talk about something that was similar to the situation at the time
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Post by Hermes on Mar 7, 2015 11:26:16 GMT -5
I'd really like to read a really long book from Lemony Snicket one of these days, though... but I guess that might challenge the thirteen-chapter format. Most of the books he writes these days (even We Are Pirates as Daniel Handler) fall around the three hundred mark. Though the pages of WAP are larger than the pages of the Snicket books. (I think WAP is pretty standard for a mainstream novel, though as I'm more used to science fiction/fantasy I found it pretty short.)
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Post by bandit on Mar 7, 2015 15:20:41 GMT -5
I heard in an interview once that all his books run up to 1000 pages when he's done with them, and then he and his editor cut down significantly until they're a reasonable length. Although it's likely he was joking.
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