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Post by Invisible on May 19, 2015 17:55:09 GMT -5
It was my sister who got me into the books. She owned all the books up to THH, and I was quite obsessed with taking them from her shelf and putting them in order on the floor. (Possibly an autistic trait?) I was mesmerised by them - just by the covers! And I guess my sister found out because before too long, my mum presented me with a boxset of the first three audiobooks. O.O
I'm really doing well with my rereading the books. Why, I started TWW only yesterday and I'm already halfway through TMM. What the heck is happening to me? I've even neglected my chores over this! O.O
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Post by Teleram on May 19, 2015 20:03:50 GMT -5
I started in about third or fourth grade. I had heard a lot about the books before and even though it didn't at all seem like my type of book series at the time, I pretty much devoured the complete wreck within a year or so.
Also, promise me you'll get around to reading ATWQ, LSWannabe.
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Post by gliquey on May 20, 2015 2:48:02 GMT -5
I started the books aged 7, shortly after The End had been released. Sometimes I wished I had either started them later or read them more carefully on the first time around, because I could never spot the henchperson or work out obvious twists. You can never go back with fresh eyes once you know that Flacutono is working for Olaf or that Esme's a villain.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on May 20, 2015 3:05:30 GMT -5
I started reading the books when I was 12. I don't think I would have liked them any earlier, I would have taken the story too seriously.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on May 20, 2015 5:21:00 GMT -5
I started in... 2004? The slippery slope was out, and i read the books in a weird order, but i remember seeing TGG coming out in shops. So i was 6/7 depending on when TGG came out.
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Post by Hermes on May 20, 2015 7:23:26 GMT -5
I read them in an odd order too. So I knew Esme was a villain before I read TEE: I've often wondered how I would have reacted if I hadn't known.
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on May 20, 2015 8:34:50 GMT -5
At very-nearly-twenty, I'm only just getting used to not being the youngest person on the internet. I'm surprised at how young you all are. I don't remember when I first read Lemony Snicket. My parents had got me the Danish editions of TBB and TRR, which are printed in 2005. I think I might've been about eleven or twelve, so it'd have to be either in or shortly after 2005. Invisible, the covers do speak very strongly to my obsessive-compulsive side, too. Particularly the American ones, though my box set is the British edition. I love how they vary in motive and detail, but keep the same, stylish overall layout (and I don't think that's uncommon, too - if you look at sellers' photos of the box set online, there's usually one of all the books laid out in a neat pattern).
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Post by Invisible on May 20, 2015 9:26:59 GMT -5
I only read TEE and TAA out of order, I'm not sure why. I think probably because my mum couldn't find the audiobook. So I had no idea who the Quagmires were when I read TEE for the first time.
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Post by Dante on May 20, 2015 11:49:55 GMT -5
The formulaic aspects of the series, and this went for the plotlines as much as the covers, were always a large part of the books' appeal to me as well. I didn't read the books in anachronic order, though I did read them in a somewhat piecemeal fashion, consuming whole books in bookshops and not actually learning to like the series enough to buy my own copies until around the time of TCC; I seem to recall TSS was the first book in the series I had to really wait for, and felt it, with that near-literal cliffhanger ending. I think I'd probably have been a bit older than some of you when I started reading the books, though, based on when they began publication.
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13 years
May 20, 2015 12:09:09 GMT -5
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Post by soufflé on May 20, 2015 12:09:09 GMT -5
I know I read TBB first, but I also know I read several out of order. I remember reading TEE before TAA and wondering who these Quagmires were. But I know I read the last five in order. When TPP came out I was so excited.
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Post by Kit's tits kick ticks on May 20, 2015 12:17:52 GMT -5
I read them all in order except I didn't read TWW at all until 2 years ago.
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Post by Tryina Denouement on May 20, 2015 12:30:18 GMT -5
I discovered ASOUE via my school library; they only had books 1 to 7. There was a one-year gap before I read the eighth book, and then I proceeded in order.
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on May 20, 2015 12:49:18 GMT -5
random trivia i've never mentioend before : In an interview with steven moffat, in the background on a bookcase you can just make out all the UE books (british edition) just from the spines.
Yes random
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Post by A comet crashing into Earth on May 20, 2015 15:06:21 GMT -5
random trivia i've never mentioend before : In an interview with steven moffat, in the background on a bookcase you can just make out all the UE books (british edition) just from the spines. Yes random Random, but wonderful! A main writer on two of my favourite current TV shows reading one of my absolute favourite book series! You wouldn't happen to have a link to that lying around somewhere?
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Post by Isadora Is a Door on May 20, 2015 15:25:24 GMT -5
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