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Post by i. on Aug 22, 2004 19:40:43 GMT -5
I liked how Lemony would pop in and say STOP once in a while.
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Post by Triangle Eyes on Nov 21, 2004 16:00:32 GMT -5
I voted "other" because I really, really like the whole Violet-kidnapping. It was too awesome! And how Klaus and Sunny disguised themselves to go and save her. It was mad awesome.
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Post by Dante on Nov 23, 2004 11:41:08 GMT -5
I thought that the best part was the children comparing themselves to Olaf, and that idea has really developed in the later books.
I'm a sucker for moral philosophy.
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Post by cwm3 on Nov 25, 2004 14:06:13 GMT -5
I voted "STOP" STOP.
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Post by SnicketFires on Nov 29, 2004 20:10:54 GMT -5
I liked the whole "Snicket fires" aspect of it. I also enjoyed the Troupe members and Esmé's shoes.
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Post by asoueaddict on Dec 6, 2004 20:47:02 GMT -5
The audiences in these books are always stupid about violence... it's like they're evil themselves. "Yay, let's see people get eaten by lions!" "Yay, let's see a 14 year old girl get her head cut off!" Idiotic dudes, man!
My favorite part of THH was the way Lemony described the unconscious Violet. There was something about the way he described her lying there, and her siblings staring at their sleeping sister sadly, and the way he spoke of how she really was quite pretty, and then when she started to come to... it's no wonder that this is the book that got me officially hooked on the series.
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Post by artluvr on Dec 7, 2004 5:26:30 GMT -5
The audiences in these books are always stupid about violence... it's like they're evil themselves. "Yay, let's see people get eaten by lions!" "Yay, let's see a 14 year old girl get her head cut off!" Idiotic dudes, man! Not idiotic. Handler's making a good point about humanity when he writes those scenes, and it's that, when you get down to it and everyone's overly moral facades are taken away, people are often primal and evil. It's Lucafont's "people are a salad" philosophy set on a larger scale. There's no doubt that, in their personal lives, each of those people fervently denies their own misbehavior and goes through life acting as polite and good as they can manage.
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ChilledCucumber
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"Where there's smoke there's fire."
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Post by ChilledCucumber on Dec 17, 2004 9:26:11 GMT -5
Haha, everytime I hear the Volunteers Fighting Disease I start laughing. So I guess that's the only non-depressing aspect. I pick that one!
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Post by asoueaddict on Dec 17, 2004 23:06:28 GMT -5
It's Lucafont's "people are a salad" philosophy set on a larger scale. You're right. I guess stuff like this is supposed to get us thinking. And Lord knows I spend a lot of time wondering if the few bad things I've done make me a bad person. Moral stuff like that can be so frustrating.
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Post by Danger on Mar 10, 2005 20:05:02 GMT -5
1st choice.Most of their gaurdians were quite annoying.Like Sir and Prufrock Prep.Plus I liked the fact of showing the orphans at their bad side.
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GemGerl
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Post by GemGerl on Mar 11, 2005 14:05:50 GMT -5
I liked the anagrams bcoz you get clues wot could happen in the future books
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