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Post by Grace on Oct 13, 2005 13:58:16 GMT -5
This is just an opinion, but I did NOT like TRR and TWW. I happen to be very...disturbed by death, especially murder. And I know these books are supposed to be sad, but..........it was a bit depressing. And the movie was even worse. See, I didn't like Uncle Monty all that much in the book, but I really liked him in the movie, so I was a bit (not terribly, but a bit) upset when he died.
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Post by Sixteen on Oct 13, 2005 13:59:45 GMT -5
Well, you can't say you weren't warned  . |
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Post by Dante on Oct 13, 2005 14:13:33 GMT -5
Sixteen's right. We were told several chapters in advance.
However, TRR was rather sad. Uncle Monty was so good to them, but then Stephano started terrorising him. He pushed a lamp onto Monty which injured his arm, and Monty thought it was due to Klaus's ineptitude, and then the Baudelaires barely spoke to him the night before he died.
It's a good deal harder to be so sorry for Aunt Josephine, though.
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Post by Antenora on Oct 13, 2005 14:32:40 GMT -5
I think Monty's a lot more sympathetic than Josephine, too. He might have been scatterbrained, but he seemed to care more about the children than she did.
Both of their deaths are pretty disturbing, indeed, probalby among the most disturbing deaths in the series. Monty's death was pretty strange and morbid.
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Post by Sixteen on Oct 13, 2005 14:34:03 GMT -5
I don't think Josephine loved the children less, she just was too preoccupied with her fears to show that love.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Oct 13, 2005 16:12:33 GMT -5
In other words, she was a bad guardian. Uncle Monty rawked, and was even better in the movie. Bless his soul.....
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Post by s on Oct 14, 2005 16:31:56 GMT -5
I liked the morbid-ness of those books; it's one of the cool things from the books that we don't see in the later ones. But yeah, I wasn't too upset with anyone's death.
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Post by euro on Oct 14, 2005 16:58:06 GMT -5
I liked the morbid-ness of those books; it's one of the cool things from the books that we don't see in the later ones. But yeah, I wasn't too upset with anyone's death. I agree completely. We won't be seeing anymore deaths like those in the earlier books. It's a shame too; I really liked reading about them. |
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Post by Ennui on Oct 15, 2005 9:00:03 GMT -5
I actually preferred Josephine, because she's exactly like my mother...Monty was irritating and feelgood. Good coconut cream cake recipe though...
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Post by Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo on Oct 15, 2005 9:06:58 GMT -5
I don't think Josephine loved the children less, she just was too preoccupied with her fears to show that love. I realise this is off-topic, but I agree with your sig. |
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Post by LargeManFeOrMale on Oct 15, 2005 9:51:25 GMT -5
I preferred Josephine(as you can see from my siggy), Monty was a bit of an annoyance for me
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Post by nyflamehead11 on Oct 17, 2005 15:33:04 GMT -5
josephine is a freak
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Post by s on Oct 17, 2005 21:35:15 GMT -5
 How dare you! Josephine is an intelligent, if slightly paranoid, woman who just happens to appreciate proper grammar! I infinitely prefer her to, say, Carmelita, who really is a freak (or rather, to use her own term, "cakesniffer.") |
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Post by Dear Dairy on Oct 17, 2005 22:35:46 GMT -5
Personally, I found TBB much more disturbing with its implication of child molestation. It bothered me so much that I didn't read TRR or TWW until they came out in paperback. THEN I got hooked!
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Post by LargeManFeOrMale on Oct 18, 2005 13:46:41 GMT -5
It wasn't molestation! I would explain why it wasn't but then i'd probably get banned.
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How dare you! Josephine is an intelligent, if slightly paranoid, woman who just happens to appreciate proper grammar! I infinitely prefer her to, say, Carmelita, who really is a freak (or rather, to use her own term, "cakesniffer.")
