Jay
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Post by Jay on Dec 22, 2004 20:36:51 GMT -5
i thnk the austere academy (spelling?) is the best book along with the Grim Grotto. I think that the style of writing used by Mr. Snicket (could he just use his real name?) is very funny.
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Post by Singer012 on Jan 28, 2005 15:30:08 GMT -5
thats great but did you have to start a thread about that?!
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Post by Ennui on Jan 28, 2005 15:31:57 GMT -5
You hypocrite! Take out the log from your own eye ere you pluck the speck from your brother's eye.
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Post by Dante on Jan 28, 2005 15:32:48 GMT -5
thats great but did you have to start a thread about that?! Mmm... Debatable. Let's call this the Official What Did You Think of TAA Thread and leave it at that. I thought TAA was alright, although I thought that the advanced computer wasn't included enough, and those darn Quagmire triplets have brought so much trouble with shipping. |
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Post by pig on Mar 20, 2005 4:46:37 GMT -5
I thought that it was a very good book but maybe not the best
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Snuffles
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Post by Snuffles on Mar 20, 2005 6:10:15 GMT -5
TAA was a great book and it was pretty funny too.
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Post by PJ on Mar 20, 2005 6:14:52 GMT -5
and those darn Quagmire triplets have brought so much trouble with shipping. ;D Have you no opinions in the matter? |
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Post by RockSunner on Mar 20, 2005 23:46:03 GMT -5
Up until Book the 5th, the series followed a formula and it was beginning to get boring: a new guardian, Olaf in disguise causes trouble, and the Baudelaires save themselves at the last minute. TAA began to break that formula by introducing friends the Baudelaire's own age. It also was the first mention of the V.F.D.. I think it was inferior to every book that came after it, but TAA was a good step in the right direction for the series.
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Post by Lucky Orphan on Mar 21, 2005 8:43:48 GMT -5
Yeah, you're right. Though I still loved all of the books before it, of course.
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Post by IsadoraGirl on Apr 21, 2005 14:17:19 GMT -5
I thought that it was a very good book but maybe not the best Yeah. Same thought |
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Post by tifah4 on May 2, 2005 12:00:41 GMT -5
I think that book the fifth was very good one of the resons is because Violet,Kluse and Sunny met kids that was in the same situation as them even if Count Olof kidnapped them
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Post by Forlorn on May 2, 2005 13:58:32 GMT -5
The fifth one was ok. It gave a lot of information and had some cool new characters introduced... the quags... oh yeah and carmelita spats. It also showed the soft side of the white faced ladies. The main thing I liked about it though is that it was the book that introduced the mysterey of the VFD.
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Post by Dante on May 22, 2005 8:34:32 GMT -5
It also showed the soft side of the white faced ladies. How precisely did it show the soft side of the powder-faced women? They disguised themselves as cafeteria staff and then kidnapped two triplets, and fought to keep them from escaping. |
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on May 22, 2005 9:28:06 GMT -5
I for one wish the white-faced ladies had gotten more to do in TAA, and more lines in general. Although they reveal some of their backstory in TSS, they don't do much earlier on.
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Post by Dante on May 22, 2005 9:35:02 GMT -5
I for one wish the white-faced ladies had gotten more to do in TAA, and more lines in general. Although they reveal some of their backstory in TSS, they don't do much earlier on. That's a good point. They don't even say anything in TAA (although I think that a powder-faced woman was the first of Olaf's troupe to speak in TBB). They just didn't seem to do anything, either, as you said; the plot would have been exactly the same if, rather than being the cafeteria assistants, they'd just popped up at the end. With Dr. O. Lucafont and Foreman Flacutono, then they had something of a character built up, and they said and did plenty of stuff (I can't complain about the androgyne as it never does anything except bellow unintelligibly and hit things). At least they got a lot of screen-time, so to speak, in TSS. |
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