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Post by lucklemony on Apr 25, 2004 15:44:40 GMT -5
I feel that my like for ASOUE is less than say it was a year ago. Does anyone else feel this way?
I know its because im getting older. But when u first read them, didnt u think that u could never stop liking them?
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Post by Madamluna on Apr 25, 2004 15:50:21 GMT -5
You're probably in that between-book slump that's occurred ever since DH stopped doing three a year. Although I wasn't too excited after reading Slippery Slope, to tell the truth.
I'm as enthusiastic as ever, but my enthusiasm's gone in different directions: I'm a supertroupedork now as opposed to a general ASOUE dork at the beginning.
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Post by kjlsnicket29 on Apr 25, 2004 16:18:36 GMT -5
I put no because my liking for ASOUE IS NOT SLIPPING!!!! I still love the series, and I'm very excited about the next book coming out, but I'm so mad that he doesn't do 3 a year, now he's totally torchering us, and he knows it  . |
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Post by Rikku on Apr 25, 2004 16:34:55 GMT -5
I still love the series alot.  I'm not as obsessed as I was 2 years ago. (when I started reading them) but I am still obsessed in a way. |
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Apr 25, 2004 20:10:05 GMT -5
Mine is slipping a bit. I've always liked Harry Potter more and I'm thinking about hp a lot more now than I'm thinking of asoue. I only started reading asoue in october. It'll flare up as soon as tgg comes out though.
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Post by Master of Illusions on Apr 25, 2004 20:38:15 GMT -5
Yes... It's not as intersting anymore...
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Post by Madamluna on Apr 26, 2004 6:01:45 GMT -5
Yes... It's not as intersting anymore... Read Hostile Hospital then read Wide Window and tell me which one holds your attention more. |
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Post by Countess Mecilia on Apr 26, 2004 9:17:53 GMT -5
My love for ASoUE slipped a bit last year, and early this year. I DID NOT like The Slippery Slope. I got re-obsessed after I read the series again, in order. I actually must say, I don't really think the books are getting better. I mean, ever since the original troupe started getting killed off, and the "new troupe" came in, I've been a bit resentful.
I don't know... I still like ASoUE a lot. I just hope that The Grim Grotto will be better than the Slippery Slope.
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Post by Antenora on Apr 26, 2004 9:55:16 GMT -5
Around the time of The Slippery Slope I was the sort of Snicket maniac who draws VFD insignias on her ankle and hides her face under a fedora because it's Snickety. By January I didn't care so much anymore. It was indeed a between-book slump. Now that we have the first Grim Grotto information, my enthusiasm has been rekindled and soon will burn like a green VFD mansion set alight by Olaf. See, I'm already using Snicket metaphors. So, my answer is yes, and no.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Apr 26, 2004 19:42:58 GMT -5
I do think the books are getting more interesting. There's more suspense in the newer ones. Rather than: how will the baudelaires be found by count olaf and kicked out by their unworthy guardian next? We have a whole new set of questions involving the snicket file, what vfd stands for, the quagmires, and many others. But yes I am in a between book slump.
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Post by SnicketFires on Apr 27, 2004 10:09:16 GMT -5
I'm in the book slump too. When I first came here, a couple weeks after TSS came out, I was at the peak of my frenzy. But now, a good 6 months after TSS, where every possibly theory/allusion has been picked apart thousands of times (the Salad means that K's the mother! What are the mushrooms for? Mr. Baudelaire is dead because of that poem! And the like, I'm sure you know what I mean). I don't usually go into the Snicket sections anymore because they are filled with old theories, and too many threads labeled:
[insert random character here] Who are they, what do we know?
Often in capitals or misspellings. So, as you see, i'm a bit off ASOUE right now. Perhaps I'd be into it more if there weren't all the newbies that hang out in the ASOUE sections. But as soon as TGG comes out, I'll be back and try to be more forgiving, as new theories come forth...
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Post by SnicketFires on Apr 27, 2004 18:08:07 GMT -5
Exactly, and even if they are the usual "old" theories the other theories which may seem original I think we have already covered, or at least I felt I have covered. That's the same as me. I felt that I have covered a theory, and thus don't need to add to it/listen to others make discoveries I've already had. Except if it's you, swans. Then I'll read it. |
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Post by negativenine on Apr 27, 2004 18:18:37 GMT -5
Yes, my passion for theorizing is slipping. I barely frequent the book sections of this site, anymore... Everything seems already covered, as swans said. I miss some of the good ol' days... but my passion for other things ASOUE is still there. I'm still a big fan. Whenever I get a little bored, something creativitely cool happens and I rediscover ASOUE. It's also nice to have some other crazy people to cavort with! *coughLunacough*
But I think when the movie and book come out, I'll be as crazy as ever. I'm still riding the obsession...
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Post by timartwonis on Apr 27, 2004 18:26:29 GMT -5
id say yes  when i first started reading them, id start at noon and be doen a few hours later, now it takes me a few days and i dont whine when my rents try to make me eat dinner while im reading them... and on UE.net, i would post theories, but notice how i havent really done so here |
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Post by lucklemony on Apr 27, 2004 18:37:48 GMT -5
there getting a bit boring.  |
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when i first started reading them, id start at noon and be doen a few hours later, now it takes me a few days and i dont whine when my rents try to make me eat dinner while im reading them... and on UE.net, i would post theories, but notice how i havent really done so here
