Tell Something About Your General ASOUE Collection

[Alfred is Present]

Dracula, I almost melted when I saw your collection...
I don't know if you stole the display stand or what, you bought it?
How lucky for you to buy promotional items.

O goodness. A whole room for Snicket! Help me not to die.

[Sugary Snicket]

I. ENVY. YOU. OMG I think I'm in love with a newbie.

[D]

I was wondering if theres anyone obsessed as much as I am, I'd like to think I'm at lest in the top10 fans in the world, but maybe not.
I asked the people at my local bookstore if i could have the PP display stand when they were done with it, they said they were not sure if they could give it away, but they still took my phone # to call me in case, I was very lucky when i got the call to come pick it up, it made my extremely happy to be able to get it! And for free!
I got most of my promo items through the power of e-bay. But yes I am very pleased with my collection. And I plan to acquire much more, I hope to have everything before I die, but i don't think I'll manage to obtain everything.

[Alfred is Present]

Dracula ( ???I don't know, if I'll use Ms, or Mr: you don't display your gender below your avatar ), I forgot to ask you if you possess a scanner, and if you also happen to have TUA postcards, which I believe exists.

*pause*

Dracula, do you possess a scanner, and do you also happen to have TUA postcards, which I believe exists?

Oh, and... Merry Christmas to all who posted here in this thread.

[D]

I'm very sorry, I do not have a scanner, and I'm 99.9996% sure that i do not have the TUA postcards (i never even heard of them) but if there ASOUE then i have to find them!

[Sugary Snicket]

I just recently got TAA, TSS and TGG as Christmas gifts..... And I have The PParlor game.

[hookhandedgirl]

Books 1-9: Cost me approximatly $100, all hard cover

TGG: 13th birthday present

TPP: Christmas gift

DVD of the movie: Bought it on the release day and watched it so many time I can STILL talk along with the characters.

Violet "First Impressions" shirt: Bought at Hot Topic.

[Alice Wilde]

TBB-I bought it with some extra money my parents gave me for a book fair. I only bought it because said money was burning a hole in my pocket. I thought I would hate the book, and it took me several months, and a rainy day to finally pick it up. I have since been in utter adoration of the series.

Before I joined 667 Dark Avenue, the 'ex libris' page has contained one initial, 'B' for Betheny. Post-667...'A' for Alice. Also, does anyone else write the dates they got their books?

I once tried to run away, but realized I couldn't fit all the books in my suitcase, so I decided I had better stay.

I have two copies of TCC because I couldn't wait for the book my grandmother ordered to arrive. I went out and bought it the day of its release.

The first time I read any of the books was in a corner of my kitchen. From TBB through TPP I have always read the books the day I got them, in one setting, usually listening to my mother make dinner.

[Dante]

I almost got a spare copy of TBB yesterday, because I saw it specially packaged with The Blank Book, which I don't yet have. I decided against it, though.

Edit: Also, I recently won second prize in a contest on The Quiet World, which means I will at some point receive a collection of rather cool promo items.

[twistedbrain]

Neat-o, Dante. Cool!

[Dante]

ffwf said:

TBB through TCC: TBB through half of TEE I, er, read in bookstores, with breaks of several months in between. But I did eventually get TBB, TRR, TWW and TMM in a U.K. box set, and then I ordered actual copies of TAA through TCC. I got all these a few months before the (British) release of TSS.

TSS, U.A.: I ordered these from Amazon.co.uk and got them on the same day.

BBRE: I ordered this from Amazon.co.uk, and it's an American edition, since there doesn't seem to be a British equivalent that has the endnotes. It was supposed to be dispatched within twenty-four hours, but actually took two weeks. I suspect they had it shipped over from America.

TGG: Ordered it from Amazon.co.uk, and got it about four days after the release date, which was thirteen days after the U.S. release date anyway.

TPP: I got my mother to get it from a bookstore on the release date. She ended up having to try three different stores.

Because of this:

ffwf said:

Edit: Also, I recently won second prize in a contest on The Quiet World, which means I will at some point receive a collection of rather cool promo items.

I now add to my list the following:

Promo items: 1 Snicket sticker sheet; 5 Snicket buttons/badges/pins; 1 pack of Misfortune Telling Cards; 1 packet of TGG tissues; 1 TGG flashlight/torch; 3 Snicket mirrors; 1 set of collapsible binoculars.

[lauren]

I just remembered something scpecial about my collection. I have a Japanese movie poster which my Japanese exchange sister sent me because she knew of my obsession.

[Sugary Snicket]

Cool. I've got some pictures of mine.

Books 1-6:



Books 8-12, But TVV is lent to my mom's friend. I made that Sugar Bowl myself, BTW:



My Snicket books arranged in a tower, along with TUA and Truth Behind ASOUE; TVV is gone because of me lending it to my Mom's friend, and TCC is gone because I forgot to put it there. (It's in one of my displays. I'll post those If I ever get my digital camera working.):



My items, not much, but.... My TPParlor Game, Movie Soundtrack, X-box game, and DVD of the movie itself:



My Violet Movie T-Shirt, though I wish I had the "Run Orphans, Run" one:



And, last of all, my pride and joy - A Papier Mache I spent weeks on in art, and barely anyone knew what it was except for the readers of ASOUE 12, which my ever-so-fathful school library got in JANUARY, months after the release, so nobody knew what it was, so I had to explain over and over that it was the Baudelaires at the Concierge Desk, and half of them didn't even know what in the Sam Hill a Concierge WAS. Isn't that tragic?:

[Dante]

...And just today I received The Blank Book from Amazon.co.uk, after having spent quite a while thinking I wouldn't get it. Then I realised I'd end up getting NNotations and PPuzzles, so I thought I should have a full set.

[Sugary Snicket]

I just got The Blank Book from my school Book Fair a week ago.