Luigi
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Post by Luigi on Feb 20, 2004 21:12:21 GMT -5
I heard that LS's childhood was described on the audio tapes...anyone care to sum it up?
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Feb 20, 2004 21:15:56 GMT -5
Are you being sarcastic again? If not who told u that? I always thought that most of his childhood was spent doing things for VFD.
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Post by Luigi on Feb 20, 2004 21:17:54 GMT -5
I never start threads with sarcasm. I only post in already made threads.
No, I read a caption to a pic and it said "a metaphor for Lemony Snicket's childhood, as described by the author in the audio tapes..."
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Feb 20, 2004 21:20:58 GMT -5
Where was the picture? Funny how I manage to disagree with both statements in ur caption.
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Post by Luigi on Feb 20, 2004 21:27:45 GMT -5
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Post by notanorphan on Feb 20, 2004 21:35:46 GMT -5
If you listen to the first audio tape (The Bad Begining), there is an interview between Daniel Handler and the other guy. The whole time, Daniel insists that he is not Lemony, but says alot of things that imply that they are the same person (as we know they are). He said something about liking to read this one book as a kid.
But I listened to it so long ago (a couple of months) that I forgot what it said. But there wasn't much we don't know, if I remember correctly.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Feb 20, 2004 21:58:01 GMT -5
That was a pretty funny satire! I'd encourage others to read it as well. u don't remember what it said? Well, it's probably not very important, I listened to 5 audios, but I never heard an interview on any of them! <wonders why>
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Post by Luigi on Feb 21, 2004 11:58:11 GMT -5
I haven't listened to any audios...maybe you have to wait until the very end or something?
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Post by negativenine on Feb 21, 2004 15:18:47 GMT -5
At the end of the TBB audio, there's an interview between Daniel Handler and Leonard Marcus (I think). Daniel Handler says a lot of things (using "he" and "I" interchangibly... so we get that they really are the same person).... like... whenever Marcus mentions Beatrice he says something like, "there are some things so horrible that when they're brought up, one cannot even speak about them"... something like that. He also says that his childhood was like... a sea urchin (or some other aquatic creature) who lived happily in the sea until it was untimely ripped (ha... not exact phrasing... I stole that from a dead poet) from the sea and landed on the beach, helpless, where some people poked at it. All in a very depressed/ing voice. Yup... so that picture's people poking at it. It's a metaphor for the little Snicket lad being taken from his comfortable home and to VFD HQ, as far as I can see... but I didn't get it at the time (TUA wasn't yet out).
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Post by Tay Sachs on Feb 21, 2004 16:27:17 GMT -5
Lol! And that Jacques Snicket pic is just how I picture him!
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Post by Celinra on Feb 21, 2004 17:32:49 GMT -5
I've heard the interview, too. It's rather amusing. Handler is there to greet the interviewer, saying he's Snicket's representative, and offers the interviewer a drink. Later, he says that Snicket needs to hide from people, so he disguises himself as a representative who offers people drinks... And there are many instances of "I... I mean, he..." And yes, there are the little tidbits about his childhood, but those were explained earlier. It's only on the audio of the first book. The rest just have songs.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Feb 21, 2004 17:52:52 GMT -5
I haven't listened to any audios...maybe you have to wait until the very end or something? I HAVE waited till the end, there's like 5 minutes of nothingness at the end of the tape. On some u can hear Snicket saying his letter to the editor. When I listened to hh I thought that I'd hear the whole torn letter, obviously not. There were some interesting songs at the beginning though.
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Post by SnicketFires on Feb 22, 2004 20:39:43 GMT -5
erg! And i just had listened to it! But not all of it, it had to go back to the library. And I can't stand Tim Curry. But now I'll listen to the BB on tape.
That satire was so funny! *rolls*
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Post by Celinra on Feb 22, 2004 22:26:30 GMT -5
Perhaps it's only on certain releases of the first book, maybe a later release date than when they first came out, or something. If anyone's wondering, I heard it on the 3 CD set, with Tim Curry as the reader.
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Post by I Was Marooned on Feb 23, 2004 17:32:45 GMT -5
I love the audio tape, it's so funny listening to the conversations:
Leanord marcus: Now, in the beginning of The Bad Beggining, there is a sad dedication to a woman named Beatrice. Who is Beatrice?
DH: That is not the propper question. the proper question would be, "What is her last name?"
LM: Well, Mr. handler, if you don't mind me asking, what is her last name?
DH: There are some questions that are so horrible to the person hearing them, that they cannot possibly answer them.
That amused me and frustrated me at the same time. I love when he says about her last name because that is just what we want to know. How oddly specific.
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