Book 6? Last book?

[kjlsnicket29]

Ben said:

I assume book eleven is coming out soon.

To be exact, it's September 21st. I CANNOT WAIT!!!

[MsMourning]

Aww great!!! Now I'm going to spend the rest of my time marking days on the calender.

[MsMourning]

Madamluna said:

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.

Sorry if this sounds stupid but what is Viodora? I hope it isn't what I think it is...

[Madamluna]

Violet/Isadora. OH DEAR LORD I LIKE HOT GIRLS KISSING EACH OTHER IS THERE SOMETHING WRONG WITH ME

[i.]

He did't want to write them but his agent kept telling him to write a childrens book so he wrote TBB to be bad and they loved it.

[I Was Marooned]

Luna said:

6 is not an unlucky number. 13 is. there will be 13 books.

About there originally being four books, four is an unlucky number in JApan. Like we skip 13 a lot, they skip four. Which I thought was funny.

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Antenora said:

The exact phrase in the letter is "...my investigation of the Baudelaires' stay at this wealthy and woeful place(Dark Avenue) is finally complete."

The key word is [glow=red,2,300]AT[/glow]

[SpookyMeggie]

Four is an unlucky number in Japan because it is written using a similar character to the one for death

(Ai was a four-year-old in 'Myutsuu no Tanjou' for that reason --Foreboding -- so we'd kno she was gonna be dead by the end of it.)

[Antenora]

I've read about that--Japanese hospitals never have rooms numbered four for that reason. If my memory serves, the number nine is also never used because it sounds like the word for "suffering". It's like the buildings that label the 13th floor as 12A, or skip to 14.

[marisa]

If he worte that at the end of that book, that would be a bad ending for us. It keeps us hanging. We needa know what happens so I think 7 more books would do it?

[Dante]

I think that 111 is unlucky in Germany. Some number like that, anyway.

[daftbrain]

Fight said:

I think that 111 is unlucky in Germany. Some number like that, anyway.

111 is an unlucky number in cricket (the sport) for the batting team and is referred to as a "Nelson", cos Admiral Nelson was supposed to have had one eye, one arm and one leg. To avoid this omen any supporter of the batting team should have their feet of the ground.

Little known fact: the only reason the number 13 is considered unlucky is because Judas Iscariot (the guy who betrayed Jesus) was the thirteenth man in the room in which Jesus ate his Last Supper.

EDIT: Makes one wonder what the world would be like if Judas weren't the 13th man at the Last Supper but instead say, i don't know, the 17th or something. Well, for one thing.. we'd all have 17 UE books of 17 chapters to enjoy

[daftbrain]

Ineedyourhelp said:

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.

I don't know. It certainly seems like he knew about he was going to bring in the VFD when he wrote the first four books cos there are quite a few details concerning the VFD in the first four. Like the stuff about the Prosero, Gustav and Zits in the Snow and with the references he makes to Beatrice and the fact that Lemony isn't only a narrator but a character on the run.. you can tell that there's something a little more complicated underlying the somewhat formulaic approach of the first 4 books.

Although it's also possible that when the UA was written DH just went over his first few books and took all those obscure references (Prosero, Gustav and Zits in the Snow) and made up the VFD subplot to fit in perfectly with those details. In which case, the man is an absolute genius.

[CassieJo]

It sounds to me like he had everything set so that he could do 13 books if everything turned out well, but the deal with the publishers was much shorter. Things turned out peachy and he gets to do the full 13.

[SnicketFires]

daftbrain said:

I don't know. It certainly seems like he knew about he was going to bring in the VFD when he wrote the first four books cos there are quite a few details concerning the VFD in the first four. Like the stuff about the Prosero, Gustav and Zits in the Snow and with the references he makes to Beatrice and the fact that Lemony isn't only a narrator but a character on the run.. you can tell that there's something a little more complicated underlying the somewhat formulaic approach of the first 4 books.

Although it's also possible that when the UA was written DH just went over his first few books and took all those obscure references (Prosero, Gustav and Zits in the Snow) and made up the VFD subplot to fit in perfectly with those details. In which case, the man is an absolute genius.

daftbrain, you double posted. Please use the "modify" button next time you feel the need to double post. Warning is in order.