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Post by csc on Dec 10, 2011 8:25:58 GMT -5
So funny! I need to read this book now. Can't wait until it's realeased  . My favourite parts of the trailer were: "ERIC! WHERE ARE YOU?!" and "Say it one more time! 'I don't like a bossy person!' You follow orders pretty well." |
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Post by Invisible on Dec 10, 2011 9:29:11 GMT -5
My favourite part was when he ran after a woman at the beginning. Seeing Daniel/Lemony run makes my soul happy ;D
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Post by Invisible on Dec 10, 2011 10:56:08 GMT -5
It reminded me of TEE as well. Perhaps it was intentional?  I was convinced for a second he was about to burst into song there XD |
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Post by allegedly bryan on Dec 10, 2011 12:06:32 GMT -5
"I love you! NO!" Also, he runs like a small girl . |
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Post by Dante on Jan 3, 2012 15:51:15 GMT -5
Oops, I'm a week late! But things got pretty hectic when I was going away, so I blame it on that. Why We Broke Up has now been officially released! Title: Why We Broke UpRelease Date: December 27, 2011 (Little, Brown & Co.) ( source) Illustrated By: Maira Kalman Details: As Daniel Handler. "About a long letter from a girl to a boy about why they broke up." ( source). Was briefly moved to 2012, but was originally set for 2011 (see here).  |
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Post by B. on Jan 3, 2012 16:28:06 GMT -5
The trailer was hilarious.......I loved the bit where he phoned up Eric and slid down the banister. |
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Post by Hermes on Jan 3, 2012 16:57:33 GMT -5
I hope Eric turned up in the end!
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Post by Dante on Jan 26, 2012 13:59:14 GMT -5
According to Amazon, HarperCollins will be releasing a "limited special edition" of TBB on May 29th. It lists Michael Kupperman (of The Spoily Brats) among the authors, indicating that the edition may use the penny dreadful paperback content, and indeed the price is also the cheap paperback price, but a word of warning: A while back Amazon was slapping his name on every single book in ASoUE based on a misinterpretation of the creditation for the paperbacks, so Kupperman might not actually have anything to do with the new edition, if it exists. These details are also on HarperCollins's own sites, however. Keep your eyes out. The Bad Beginning Limited Special Edition |
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Post by Sophie Baudelaire on Jan 26, 2012 14:09:22 GMT -5
Wow I just watched the Why We Broke Up trailer...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I loved watching him run....classic.
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Post by B. on Jan 26, 2012 16:00:28 GMT -5
@dante, Sounds good. Do you think it will be available in UK?
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Post by Dante on Jan 26, 2012 16:20:55 GMT -5
@dante, Sounds good. Do you think it will be available in UK? I doubt it, since Egmont is the purveyor of ASoUE in the U.K., not HarperCollins; HarperCollins editions aren't sold here, or at least not outside of specialist shops, I imagine. You would have to order it from abroad. (I still haven't got Why We Broke Up or The Chronicles of Harris Burdick chiefly for that reason, but I'll be going after them soon.) |
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Post by B. on Jan 27, 2012 11:14:01 GMT -5
I'll watch that Amazon page hawkishly then.
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Post by Dante on Jan 31, 2012 6:58:05 GMT -5
More importantly, I may have dug up a release month for the new series - for the U.K., at least. On a hunch, I decided to look for the release schedule for Egmont, the U.K. publishers of the series. In this catalogue (page 128), I found an entry for the new series - sadly, it's described only as "Lemony Snicket's new series" and doesn't have a cover, and nor does it list an illustrator so they're doing a good job keeping mum on it. It does, however, list a release month: September. Take it with a pinch of salt - since they have so little other information, things may change, and we've got no guarantee that it'll release at the same time as the U.S. edition - but this sounds pretty plausible to me. Furthermore, they list the book as being in paperback at a cost of £5.99, which is what they were charging for their paperbacks of ASoUE (same price for all lengths), but more worryingly, the page count they give is only 176, which is between TBB and TRR in length; however, you have to bear in mind that ASoUE is printed with quite few words to the page, so the new book could quite conceivably be a lot longer than the originals if they've changed the formatting; in addition, in my experience page counts listed online are notoriously unreliable, and it could just be a predicted length for a non-finalised manuscript. In fact, the same catalogue lists TBB as being 176 pages when it's actually quite a bit shorter, and seems to have erroneous page counts for the other books as well, so I'm inclined to think they may have just used the details from that as a placeholder. The recommended age for the book is 8+, but again, ASoUE has the same age rating and these things are fairly subjective, and it may just be a prediction. In other words, the details in this paragraph can't actually be relied upon. (Incidentally, they list a U.K. edition of Why We Broke Up for August.) |
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Post by Hermes on Jan 31, 2012 9:31:34 GMT -5
The recommended age for the book is 8+, but again, ASoUE has the same age rating and these things are fairly subjective, and it may just be a prediction. In other words, the details in this paragraph can't actually be relied upon. I think '8+' should just be seen as assigning the book to the general class of 'books for older children' - the split is normally made either at eight or at nine. This does not, of course, mean that it can't be read by adults, or by teenagers, just that it is written in a style associated with children's books, and contains nothing unsuitable for them. That's what ASOUE is, and one would expect this to be similar. Oo! |
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Post by Dante on Jan 31, 2012 13:05:20 GMT -5
I think '8+' should just be seen as assigning the book to the general class of 'books for older children' - the split is normally made either at eight or at nine. This does not, of course, mean that it can't be read by adults, or by teenagers, just that it is written in a style associated with children's books, and contains nothing unsuitable for them. That's what ASOUE is, and one would expect this to be similar. I wasn't trying to slam the 8+ rating, just remind people of the context. It's easy to forget that ASoUE is technically a children's series when everyone here is at least a teenager, and I think has to be to even register. The rating signifies that it doesn't deal with the tropes of work that is explicitly for teens or adults. Doesn't signify that teenagers and adults can't read or enjoy it. |
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. My favourite parts of the trailer were:
I was convinced for a second he was about to burst into song there XD
