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Post by Hermes on Sept 3, 2017 15:12:11 GMT -5
Finally got a copy of this, and am reading it with interest. Some initial thoughts:
a. The cover says, very prominently 'From the acclaimed author of THE LEMONY SNICKET SERIES'. I hope not too many Snicket fans were misled by that.
b. It's not set in San Francisco. How can there be a DH book which isn't set in San Francisco?
c. How Snickety is it, in fact? Not as much as TB8, I feel, where Flan's personality certainly resembles Lemony's in some ways; but there are occasional bits that make you think of Snicket, like 'actually I made up those statistics'.
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Post by Reba on Sept 3, 2017 15:22:43 GMT -5
hermes hasn't read watch your mouth?
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Post by Hermes on Sept 3, 2017 15:43:19 GMT -5
Not until now, no, he hasn't.
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Post by Reba on Sept 3, 2017 16:00:10 GMT -5
poser.
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Post by Dante on Sept 3, 2017 16:15:31 GMT -5
Out of curiosity, how much did you know about the story before acquiring it? I wish I had known less about the plot of TB8 and WYM before reading them, but at the same time what finally persuaded me to get them was that same knowledge.
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Post by Hermes on Sept 3, 2017 16:41:21 GMT -5
I know the (alleged) main plot (man goes to his girlfriend's house for the summer, finds her family are all engaging in incest). (This comes up a lot in discussions of possible incest in ASOUE, so it would be impossible to avoid, I think.) I know that the first part is based on an opera and the second part on a twelve-step programme, and that it has a golem in it. (Honestly, computer, you haven't heard of a golem?) I think that's about it. There's a big reveal near the end of TB8, so knowing that in advance would be seriously disruptive, whereas here the obvious big reveal comes quite early - unless there's another I don't know about.
(I see that Part 2 is set near San Francisco. That's a relief.)
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Post by Dante on Sept 4, 2017 7:27:51 GMT -5
The golem specifically is what I was thinking of, yes (and also the twist at the end of TB8). If I hadn't known how strange the books were, I wouldn't have cared in the first place, although these days I'm more or less obliged to buy anything Handler writes. I think I probably miss the days when his books were a little stranger - though I suppose I haven't actually read All the Dirty Parts yet, so for all I know that could turn out to be a dream of an AI of a fanfic character or something similarly outlandish.
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Post by R. on Jan 3, 2024 18:14:40 GMT -5
I agree that Daniel Handler isn’t writing enough weird stuff anymore, also I didn’t really like WYM. Typically in his books there is at least one character I connect really strongly to, a character I can love, but every character in WYM fell somewhere in the spectrum of mediocrity to detestability.
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Jan 4, 2024 9:12:42 GMT -5
every character in WYM fell somewhere in the spectrum of mediocrity to detestability. That was actually my favorite part about it lol
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Post by B. on Jan 5, 2024 16:51:00 GMT -5
Hermes <3
(Dante's old posts are also kinda golden here)
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