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Post by Tyler on May 20, 2004 20:09:21 GMT -5
In The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) says, in his away note in the end of the book that the chronicles of the Baudelaire's lives has finally been complete installed in book the sixth, The Ersatz Elevator. It was something like that. That just gives me the idea that he had originally planned for ASOUE to be six books long. I know that this doesn't really matter, but I just wanted to bring it up...
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Post by SlightlyMad on May 21, 2004 15:05:24 GMT -5
Odd, Where did you find that out?
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Post by Madamluna on May 21, 2004 18:08:25 GMT -5
Actually, from what I've heard his original deal was to only do four books and then stop, since he figured people would hate them.
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Post by Antenora on May 21, 2004 18:11:49 GMT -5
Where did you hear that, Luna? Anyway, I'm glad that Lemony decided to make it into a 13-book series. If he had planned to do only four, that may be connected to the fact that the VFD plot takes off in book 5.
The exact phrase in the letter is "...my investigation of the Baudelaires' stay at this wealthy and woeful place(Dark Avenue) is finally complete."
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Post by Tyler on May 21, 2004 18:13:00 GMT -5
But for some reason I remember... Oh, fudge it.  |
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Post by ineedyourhelp on May 22, 2004 8:14:55 GMT -5
that makes sense. because he started the whole VFD thing in book five so the books will be more interesting. come on i know youd get bored to if there were 13 books, each with a new guardian. Handler probably knew nothing about VFD until the fifth book. That why Olafs tatoo used to be just an eye, now he changed it to the VFD insignia.
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Post by DetectiveDupin on May 23, 2004 6:24:05 GMT -5
Yes, and whilst we're talking about what he originally planned, he was just going to have Olaf obsessed with eyes-as opposed to them actually being relevent to a large part in the book (VFD)
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Post by ineedyourhelp on May 23, 2004 8:25:00 GMT -5
Ya, I think he said that in an interview somewhere but I cant find it now.
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Post by Countess Mecilia on May 30, 2004 13:56:33 GMT -5
Yes, and he also started off the Quagmire subplot in TAA. Damn him. The first 4 Quagmire-less books, in my opinion, were much better. And then, in TVV, you think they've gone for good. Then Quigley comes in TSS. Crap. [/rant]
Anyway, the VFD subplot really turned the series in a different direction. The series now has become more of a mystery series [kind of], than just general tales of woe, in which they had problems to solve. I'm a pretty big fan of the VFD subplot, and I wish he had thought of a way to put it in without including the Quigmires. Ugh. [/rant]
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Post by isadora667 on May 30, 2004 15:25:26 GMT -5
personally I like the Quagmires
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Post by isadora667 on May 30, 2004 15:26:04 GMT -5
because they add people of the same age for the Baudelaires to talk to
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Post by Madamluna on Jun 1, 2004 13:52:57 GMT -5
The Quagmires didn't add much to the plot. Isadora and Duncan are pretty bland characters (one is a carbon copy of Klaus without glasses and one is just pretty) and they really only served to create the semi-romantic subplot that started in TAA. And they got kidnapped a lot. I'm glad they were only in TAA-TVV; this, among other things, explains why I like THH and TCC so much. The Quagmires are momentarily off the Baudelaires' minds, so the story is free to concentrate on other, more interesting, aspects. Like VFD, character development (henchmen UNF), character relations development (omg Olaf/Esme/Lulu, GOD why didn't Handler do more with that?!)...stuff like that.
Then Quigley showed up in TSS, and I was really digging him for the short amount of time he was there. He was super helpful, after all. And OMG SURVIVOR. Of course, then the ASOUE fan community totally ruined that book for me afterwards with all their D/Q/Vness. That's why I support Viodora. I mean, aside from it being CENTER OF THE SUN HOT.
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Post by Ben on Jun 8, 2004 17:57:01 GMT -5
In The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket (Daniel Handler) says, in his away note in the end of the book that the chronicles of the Baudelaire's lives has finally been complete installed in book the sixth, The Ersatz Elevator. It was something like that. That just gives me the idea that he had originally planned for ASOUE to be six books long. I know that this doesn't really matter, but I just wanted to bring it up... Will somebody please delete this post? Everyone knows that book six is NOT the last book because we`re up to ten already, and I assume book eleven is coming out soon. |
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Post by Antenora on Jun 8, 2004 18:05:20 GMT -5
Speak not of deletion. He was merely talking of Lemony's original plans, which have either been changed or were never for a six-book series.
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Post by Luna on Jun 9, 2004 13:15:20 GMT -5
6 is not an unlucky number. 13 is. there will be 13 books.
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