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Post by Gigi on Aug 17, 2006 15:15:29 GMT -5
I got Book Blast e-mail from Harper-Collins today. A few new bits to share. ![](http://i8.tinypic.com/24vuqlk.jpg)
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Post by Dante on Aug 17, 2006 15:21:01 GMT -5
I just got this too, and added it to my list of information at the start of the TBL thread.
...That's all I really have to say, actually. It kinda speaks for itself. With the possible exception that everyone was 10 years old at one point in their life, so that fact might be more interesting if they extended the sentence. Oh, and maybe Snicket's previous job had an impact on his personality, explaining his rather downcast demeanour?
Edit: And also, Code Class presumably wouldn't have been on at Prufrock Prep. or a normal boarding school, so that might indicate that the opening stages of TBL take place within a V.F.D. headquarters, where they had such education and examination. Or they were secret classes, etc., etc.
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Post by Gigi on Aug 17, 2006 15:23:33 GMT -5
Wow! You actually got the e-mail at the same time! (for once)
They're talking about those secret file folders again. I can't wait to actually get this thing to see what it all contains.
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Post by Dante on Aug 17, 2006 15:32:48 GMT -5
Wow! You actually got the e-mail at the same time! (for once) Oh, I've never had a problem with Book Blast. It's just AuthorTracker that seems to think it can dawdle along on the way to my inbox, stopping all too frequently to tie its shoes or take a meal in a nearby theme restaurant, or eventually getting a new job and never arriving at all. It certainly sounds like TBL's very construction will be impressive (and certainly surpass nearly every, if not every, other book I've read). It'll be fun just to see what it's styled like and where everything slots away. I know I was wondering where one would keep the punch-out letters once they were punched-out.
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Post by Gigi on Aug 17, 2006 15:43:51 GMT -5
It also sounds like it should be handled with great care. I can see the letters easily tearing as they are punched out, or bent as they are put in the files. I've even considered buying two copies, one that I wouldn't open or use to preserve it.
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Post by Dante on Aug 17, 2006 15:56:58 GMT -5
I'm getting an HC copy eventually, for several reasons, one of which is that I don't trust Egmont not to have mucked about with the contents, regardless of their carefully-worded statements.
Edit: Sorry, Egmont. Only not if I'm right. I'm putting my hope in the possibility that there was so much complicated and involved stuff that they couldn't risk changing it. The almost identical cover is a good sign. But this isn't about my complaints.
No, it's, for one time only, about the letters and the anagrams. They must be quite carefully-worded, as I would have thought it would be difficult to find important Snicket secrets that use exactly the same letters. Unless there's some left over, but that's cheating.
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Post by Antenora on Aug 17, 2006 16:03:51 GMT -5
It also sounds like it should be handled with great care. I can see the letters easily tearing as they are punched out, or bent as they are put in the files. I've even considered buying two copies, one that I wouldn't open or use to preserve it. I might end up doing the same thing(or at least I will if I can convince Mother to get two, maybe paying for one myself). Anyway, I agree that the code class is likely a VFD training thing, or if it's at Prufrock it's a secret class. Also, I think this code class might be where Lemony and Beatrice were passing notes, and where the other student, O, was filling his notebook with anagrams of obscene words. I'm trying to think of what the "surprisingly...10 years old" sentence is referring to. Possibly when Beatrice met Lemony, or her recruitment into VFD, or the death of one or the other of the Beatrices?
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Post by Gigi on Aug 17, 2006 16:29:21 GMT -5
Buying two copies would also get you two posters that you could hang up and see both sides at the same time.
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Post by Brownie on Aug 17, 2006 19:22:08 GMT -5
This is proof that TE is really getting close!
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Post by Dante on Aug 26, 2006 10:34:23 GMT -5
Sometimes I wonder why he hasn't just written a BOOK. You know, a normal one. I guess that due to those all secret folders and punch-out letters and stuff this book wouldn't be published in my country and I will not find any e-books :/. That'd be a real shame if it didn't get published in your country. The secret folders and such might not be necessary, though - I keep on worrying that the U.K. publishers (Egmont) will have cut out most of the interesting design quirks to save money or just to tweak things for the sake of it. So if other publishers did that, there might be a chance. (Or you could just try and order an English-language copy; your English seems pretty flawless to me.)
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Post by Dante on Sept 5, 2006 6:26:31 GMT -5
I got another Book Blast which put the spotlight on TBL today, but it didn't have new information. And why would it, frankly, since the book is out now. But anyway, here's a picture: ![](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v497/FFWF/BookBlastTBL2.png)
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Post by katekor on Sept 5, 2006 12:00:24 GMT -5
I got that too. I also get emails from Barnes & Noble every week, and the featured book was TBL! I have yet to get it... I'm wondering if it's even worth it though.
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Post by Gigi on Sept 5, 2006 14:16:41 GMT -5
It's worth it! Get it!
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