klaus12
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Post by klaus12 on Nov 7, 2006 17:46:37 GMT -5
The Hobbit or There and Back Again
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Post by Dante on Nov 25, 2006 9:42:46 GMT -5
Incidentally, Amazon Canada has Horseradish down as April 11th, and Orphans! and Murder! down as April 25th (it also has their publishers down as HarperCollins Canada rather than HarperCollins and HarperTrophy, which may explain the discrepancy); however, I recall Amazon Canada being somewhat inaccurate in the past, so we may want to take that with a pinch of salt. Or they may have more recent information, or their branches of HarperCollins think they can release the books earlier; take your pick. Edit: And now B&N has put up an April 24th release date for Horseradish. (Reposted when adding this edit to draw attention to this fact, as we seem to trust B&N.)
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Post by petepulga on Nov 27, 2006 18:21:34 GMT -5
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Post by Antenora on Nov 27, 2006 20:03:28 GMT -5
Where did you find that picture? If you made it yourself(which I suspect you might have as it's on Imageshack rather than any more official site) it belongs in Aggravating Art. I can't find that image on Amazon, B&N, or LemonySnicket.com. It also doesn't look very... official.
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Post by beatriceblake on Nov 28, 2006 5:34:00 GMT -5
The bitterest truth of all is that Handler will laugh and take our money for several years to come with a series of arcane "companion" volumes:
Medusoid Mycelium: The Terrible Toxins Sapphires and Sugar Bowls: These are a few of my favourite things by Esme Squalor A very Quagmire Christmas
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Post by Dante on Nov 28, 2006 11:22:26 GMT -5
Yeah, that cover's definitely fake - the image is from the second page of a Google Image Search for "horseradish," and that's not to mention the inconsistent capitalisation, the inappropriately-sized scrappy-looking Snicket signature, and the fact that it's on Imageshack rather than being linked from a reputable bookselling website. Care to explain yourself, petepulga?
I remain of the opinion that Horseradish is not another aSoUE companion book - given that of the little information we have of it so far, the only thing that even remotely hints at an aSoUE tie-in is the title. (Of course, I'm biased because I hope Handler never writes any more aSoUE-related books.) I think it sounds more like Snicket's other non-aSoUE projects. I guess we'll find out when they actually start hyping it.
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Post by beatriceblake on Nov 28, 2006 18:21:04 GMT -5
Good point Dante. I assumed that the title Horseradish meant it must be another book from the Snicketverse but it could just be a clever in- joke I suppose. After all Handler refers to something from The Basic Eight in one of the ASoUE books.
Although it would be strange. If it isn't a Snicket book why give it a title that suggests it is? He would risk getting parents upset because their children could end up buying a book with "adult" themes. Especially if it is like Watch Your Mouth.
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Post by Dear Dairy on Nov 28, 2006 20:51:42 GMT -5
Where did you find that picture? If you made it yourself(which I suspect you might have as it's on Imageshack rather than any more official site) it belongs in Aggravating Art. I can't find that image on Amazon, B&N, or LemonySnicket.com. It also doesn't look very... official. True, but it does look . . . yummy! I expect this is a Snicket (that is, "children's") book, as opposed to a Handler (that is, "adults' ") book, simply because it's published under the Snicket name. I don't, however, expect it to be a "Baudelaire" book, but something else Snickety like "The Composer Is Dead."
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Post by petepulga on Nov 30, 2006 15:10:22 GMT -5
i made ir myself the cover!
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Post by Dante on Dec 3, 2006 12:34:44 GMT -5
Okay, that's fine. Just try and make it clearer next time you do something like that. (You might want to post it in the Aggravating Art section, for example, for others to comment on and to make it clear it's your own work.) --- Update: The publisher's synopsis has arrived. Life is a turbulent journey, fraught with confusion, heartbreak, and inconvenience. Unfortunately, this book will not help.
Instead, this book of wit and wisdom offers a selection of alarming but inescapable truths from the work of Lemony Snicket, along with selections from his unpublished papers and remarks he has made at dinner parties and anarchist riots.HarperCollins pageHarperChildren's PageRelease Date: 24th April 2007, as on B&N, and since HC are the publishers then that's probably the final word. Page count: 176, rather than the page count of 96 given originally by other sites. Age Range: It's interesting to note that B&N recommends it for ages 12 and up, whereas it rates aSoUE as being for ages 9-12; HC, though, puts both aSoUE and Horseradish as being for age 10 and up, but that might be to encourage sales to younger fans. My speculations: So, that synopsis makes it sound like some of the book's content will actually be quoted straight from aSoUE - probably the same sorts of quotations as those in The Blank Book and The Notorious Notations, if so. Although there would obviously be some or mostly new material, as it'd be really cheap just to sell a book of Snicket quotations, but if they form the majority, that might explain the apparent aSoUE connection in the title that some have noted (although that might well be just down to what's most appropriate for Snicket's general depressingly honest tone). Oh, although Snicket's written other stuff besides aSoUE, so there could be quotations from that, but his other works obviously aren't nearly so long. Selections from his unpublished papers - I wonder if that means in reality, or in the alternate reality where Snicket is a real person? We can only speculate.
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Post by Antenora on Dec 3, 2006 13:03:46 GMT -5
This makes it sound like Horseradish almost certainly won't provide us with any new information directly relevant to the series, any more information than Snicket's asides usually give us-- which is practically none. Especially if it consists largely of old quotes. It might also contain clever quips and definitions that Handler never got a chance to use in the actual Series; I recall he once mentioned wanting to define "called on the carpet" but not managing to work it in, and that he kept thinking of words he wanted to define but realized he couldn't use them, after The End. Edit: Here's the source of my above comment about "called on the carpet" and Handler still thinking up clever Snickety definitions he couldn't use.
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Post by Dante on Dec 10, 2006 13:01:14 GMT -5
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Post by Gigi on Dec 13, 2006 14:15:03 GMT -5
Mine isn't fake. ![](http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061240060.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V34430368_.jpg)
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Post by Dear Dairy on Dec 13, 2006 17:04:11 GMT -5
Whoa! What an awesome cover. I would buy the book just to get that.
Thanks, Gigi!
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Post by Gigi on Dec 13, 2006 17:06:52 GMT -5
You're welcome. I think it's pretty cool too. Let's hope the contents of the book live up to the cover.
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