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Post by s on Jun 22, 2006 17:10:58 GMT -5
Ah yes, I just received this e-mail. This sounds interesting, as we'll hopefully learn more about the childhoods of the now-adult characters of ASoUE, who (in my opinion) are really the more intriguing ones.
Also, this sentence from the e-mail made me laugh:
Heh. Remedial gym class. If that was an option at our school, I so would've taken it.
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Post by Jack on Jun 27, 2006 21:01:00 GMT -5
As I posted somewhere before, watch, this book will be like: B-E-A-T-R-I-C-E <---- the "Beatrice" letters!
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Post by Dante on Jun 28, 2006 2:42:02 GMT -5
You know, it's possible that the punch-out letters of the alphabet - at least, I'm assuming that's what they mean - spell out Beatrice's full name, in which case that pun would indeed be accurate. It would be quite an amusing double-meaning. [/ruins joke with logic]
Then again, I think that they were meant to spell out "what the future holds," or something like that, so perhaps not.
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Post by Jack on Jun 30, 2006 11:14:15 GMT -5
Hmm... either way Snicket wants to play this out, it will be amusing, and I really hope we will find out what crime Bea and Lem commited together before she died.
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Post by Sora on Jul 1, 2006 4:56:31 GMT -5
I assume it in some way has too do with the sugar bowl. Or perhaps, the death of Olaf's parents. They seem to be the obvious crimes, but they are logical. Of course for the latter too be true, Beatrice would have to be the Baudelaire's mother and Lemony would be writing the series 12 or so years in the future of the story.
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Post by Ennui on Jul 31, 2006 11:39:28 GMT -5
God, I wish it was a book, pure and simple, without extraneous gimmicks (it could still have internal ones, like LSUA did).
All the same, I'm looking forward to it almost more than to The End. Some Duchess goodness, I suspect...
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Post by Gigi on Jul 31, 2006 15:19:58 GMT -5
I'm really looking forward to the "extraneous gimmicks". I hope it's interesting enough to keep us occupied with its mysteries until The End comes out.
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Post by TheManager on Aug 1, 2006 11:35:25 GMT -5
I am certain when the Beatrice Letters come out, several mysteries will be solved yet more shall arise.
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Post by Gigi on Aug 2, 2006 12:20:25 GMT -5
Oooo! Barnes & Noble has a new picture of TBL. (I wish we could see even more detail.) Is it just me, or does that look like an angry bat hanging on the poster? The pages don't look like normal pages. It seems we will get some sort of fold-out envelopes or something. And what's with the extra book and poster? I've noticed that several bookstore sites listed on lemonysnicket.com list it as The Beatrice Letters with Poster. In fact this one has a review of the book that mentions it is a double-sided poster. I hate it when they do that! If you hang it on a wall, you can't see both sides at the same time.
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Post by Antenora on Aug 2, 2006 15:10:47 GMT -5
It looks like there are a few envelopes, or possibly booklets, inside the package/folder of TBL, and we're seeing one of them propped up against the outside. As for the poster, it does look like there's an angry bat on it, or possibly a cat wrapped in a blanket(I'm not sure which way up it's supposed to go). And I might photocopy one side of the poster so I can have both visible on my walls, or something.
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Post by s on Aug 2, 2006 16:03:43 GMT -5
Perhaps the second book was pulled out from the first for display purposes?
The poster looks intriguing. I really hope this isn't too gimmicky, though. I'd like there to be more substance to it.
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Post by Gigi on Aug 2, 2006 16:22:08 GMT -5
Have you read any of the "About the Book" blurbs? Not bn.com or amazon, but some of the stores listed on lemonysnicket.com. They are obviously referring to The Ominous Omnibus. That's strange.
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Post by katekor on Aug 2, 2006 16:37:04 GMT -5
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Post by Phoebonica on Aug 2, 2006 16:50:52 GMT -5
Spoilers for that review:
...there's more than one Beatrice?
Well, that just turns everything completely on its head, doesn't it?
(On a less awestruck note, does anyone else find it creepy that one of the ads next to that review is for "St. Olaf Bookstore"?)
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Post by Gigi on Aug 2, 2006 17:04:34 GMT -5
Or could it be that Beatrice has a double personality? Or is she bipolar and has mood swings? Or...? Or?? Or is September 5th still too far away???
Now I'm really looking forward to it!
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