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Post by Antenora on Jul 5, 2004 17:38:28 GMT -5
What do you think is the appropriate age range for Mr. Snicket's books?
The back covers say: 10 up. At Barnes and Noble it says 9-12. This sort of leaves 9-year-olds undecided. Since I don't believe in imposing upper age limits on a book, I'd say 9 and up, although the books can be rather violent and contain allusions that most preteens wouldn't catch.
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Post by timartwonis on Jul 5, 2004 17:42:21 GMT -5
I started reading them when I was nine and I couldn't put htem down so I'd say nine.
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Post by kjlsnicket29 on Jul 5, 2004 18:34:06 GMT -5
I'd say 8 and up. My teachers read them all the time. Plus, Snicket always gives the definitions, even if you don't know what the word or sentence means.
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Post by Antenora on Jul 5, 2004 19:12:28 GMT -5
7 seems a bit too young, unless the child is fairly advanced. I've read Amazon reviews of the books by (so-called) 9-year-olds, so 9 seems to be the generally accepted minimum age. An appropriate age range would be 9-199, the sort of half-joking age range seen on yo-yos for sale in novelty stores.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Jul 5, 2004 22:17:03 GMT -5
8 and up I'd say. Just because you're not 9 doesn't mean you shouldn't read asoue. You may not catch all the sublteties and such but you can still enjoy the books even if you're young.
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Post by Sora on Jul 5, 2004 22:53:50 GMT -5
I say 9 and up. I tried to read them to my 8 year old sister and she got really scared and disturbed by the black humor.
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Post by gary on Jul 6, 2004 0:01:16 GMT -5
9 and up.
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Post by ineedyourhelp on Jul 6, 2004 10:03:50 GMT -5
Id say 9 and up, cauze if your nine your probably in the third grade. My brother is 8 and he doesnt have a chance of reading an ASOUE book.
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Post by Rellim on Jul 6, 2004 13:09:21 GMT -5
I started reading ASoUE in third grade which would have made me 9 years old. I understood them just fine. My sister started reading them in first grade and she understood them just fine and didn't get scared or anything. My father, who is 46, also reads them and he likes them alot. So, I can't really say what an appropriate age range would be.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Jul 6, 2004 21:42:49 GMT -5
Erm, 8 and up then?
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Post by SnicketFires on Jul 6, 2004 23:44:44 GMT -5
My cousin started reading them last year, and she was eight. She liked them, but thought they were "wierd". Most likely because she doesn't understand a lot of it.
I started reading them when I was about eleven, but didn't understand the allusions until I was thirteen...
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Jul 7, 2004 20:42:14 GMT -5
I started reading them last october and I thought I might have been a bit too old for them, how wrong I was... My cousin Scott was(still is) 9 when he started reading them and he loves them and gets some of the allusions.
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Post by Monkeysclient on Jul 11, 2004 10:37:53 GMT -5
I have only just finished them all and i am 15(I started about a month or so ago!)
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Jul 11, 2004 19:44:35 GMT -5
There seems to be a wide variety of ages... Some adults even read them. And then there are some 7 year olds that insist on reading them.
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Post by Antenora on Jul 12, 2004 8:12:19 GMT -5
Advanced 7-year-olds, those. I wonder if some parents read the books to their young children, although the books are indeed rather dark for young ones. Once I read an Amazon review by someone who claimed to have bought the books for her 3-year-old. She complained that Lemony signed one "to [child] a future orphan." I posted it somewhere in Wistful Web.
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