kimoz17
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Post by kimoz17 on May 30, 2012 22:37:15 GMT -5
You've done a fine job already of keeping the alliteration and even some letters to which the canon corresponds. Might I suggest 13. The Utopian Uniform, referring to the islanders' robes? The reason why I picked The Untrue Utopia is despite Ishmael's effort to create a perfect environment or community (Utopia), hidden within the shadows are the villagers secretly not abiding his rule. Even Ishmael himself is breaking a few rules. So it's an Untrue Utopia. :)) Those are really good, kimoz17 - so good that I feel no qualms about saying that you could have done better for THH. You could go with something like The Invalid Institution, say. How about "The Infernal Infirmary"? :)) |
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Post by Dante on May 31, 2012 4:03:49 GMT -5
Those are really good, kimoz17 - so good that I feel no qualms about saying that you could have done better for THH. You could go with something like The Invalid Institution, say. How about "The Infernal Infirmary"? :)) Now that's more like it! |
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kimoz17
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Post by kimoz17 on May 31, 2012 8:10:48 GMT -5
I'll change The Mean Mountains to The Malignant Mountains.  |
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Post by Christmas Chief on May 31, 2012 13:58:36 GMT -5
Nice. I agree your title for TE was more fit to content; I was actually going for sound. (In fact, "Austere Academy" has always bothered me a bit.)
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Post by Dante on May 31, 2012 14:06:36 GMT -5
The Austere Economy... no, that's not right.
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Post by Kensicle on Jun 2, 2012 8:30:02 GMT -5
The Insane Institution?
Nah, that sounds like a lunatic asylum.
Edit: The Insidious Institution?
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Post by Christmas Chief on Nov 3, 2012 17:30:11 GMT -5
Bumping this because it's struck me that Murder! would have been a lot more fit for TVV, with the death of Jacques and the presence of crows. TRR might instead exclaim Poison!, which conveys more or less the same message.
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Post by Skelly Craig on Nov 3, 2012 17:50:52 GMT -5
That would've indeed fitted the books more suitably. I'm quite bitter that the enhanced paperback editions of ASoUE didn't get past the third book. We'll never know Snicket's secret message and won't get to see any more of Helquist's beautiful artwork depicting the Snicket universe.
Also, The Hostile Hospital's paperback title could be Flatline!
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Post by Dante on Nov 6, 2012 8:27:55 GMT -5
The Hostile Hospital, or, Paperwork!
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Post by Old Swinburne on Nov 6, 2012 11:39:07 GMT -5
The Maddening Mariners, Or, Mutiny!
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calvero
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Post by calvero on Sept 10, 2013 21:46:01 GMT -5
I wouldn't change the titles of the beginning/End or second-to-last title, but I'd change the rest. It spells out half of a sentence, but without knowing the rest you can't tell whether it's good or bad.  Bad Beginning A (TBD - to be determined) U (TBD) D (TBD) E (TBD) L (TBD) A (TBD) I (TBD) R (TBD) E (TBD) S (TBD) Penultimate Peril End |
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Post by Dante on Sept 11, 2013 2:05:06 GMT -5
That would be quite satisfying, wouldn't it? For TGG as "S," you could quite easily have something like "The Struggling Submarine" or "The Submarine Schism." For TMM, "The Disastrous Drudgery"? For TEE... well, being British, for me it's no problem to replace a title about elevators with "The Lamentable Lift."
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calvero
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Post by calvero on Sept 11, 2013 16:44:17 GMT -5
The problem for The Ersatz Elevator is that their isn't a L word that means the same as ersatz.
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Post by Dante on Sept 12, 2013 2:19:55 GMT -5
"Ersatz" is definitely one of the best words to be included in an ASoUE volume title, but it also doesn't fit the broader pattern of the first word just being an adjective synonymous with "bad." Which is good, but also means, for the purposes of this exercise, that it can be replaced with something that fits more smoothly with the rest of the group.
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Post by Skelly Craig on Jan 30, 2022 18:49:55 GMT -5
TBB - Ben
TRR - Rupert
TWW - Wendy
TMM - Mallory
TAA - Aaron
TEE - Eleanor
TVV - Victor
THH - Henry
TCC - Caroline
TSS - Susan
TGG - Gilbert
TPP - Peter
TE - Emmett
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