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Post by theplague on Jan 24, 2017 22:19:05 GMT -5
For instance, the exterior of 667 Dark Avenue, or the interiors of Prufrock? Some of these locations are fairly interesting in my mind so I was wondering how other people chose to interpret these areas.
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Post by Dante on Jan 25, 2017 3:22:21 GMT -5
There are some locations which are so vaguely-described that it's actually a puzzle to imagine how they're meant to work at all. I wish the Netflix set designers luck in trying to figure out an arrangement of the interior of the submarine Carmelita that makes any sense.
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Post by counto on Aug 15, 2020 20:54:37 GMT -5
667 Dark Avenue is a high-rise apartment in the City, the architecture is reminiscent of 1930's Art Deco.
Prufrock Prep is a depressingly grey 1800's building (considering it's a boarding school), which has a sort of Dickens feel to it.
The Village of Fowl Devotees is a 1600's Amish like pilgrim settlement, where anything modern day is frowned upon. For me I believe the village was inspired by Salem, Massachusetts where dozens of people were burned at the stake for witchcraft.
Hotel Denouement appears to be based off of Liberty Hotel in New York.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Aug 15, 2020 23:17:15 GMT -5
It is so interesting that for me very detailed descriptions of places are very boring for me. As I read ASOUE the place appears in my imagination so naturally that I didn't even realize that the descriptions were really very vague. It's like Sally Sebald's appearance ... She looks so real to me even though she's just a name written on a page. But I cannot describe exactly what I see as I read. But I know that I see something, for sure.
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Post by Dante on Aug 16, 2020 1:52:42 GMT -5
That is one of the strengths of Snicket's choice to generally provide only sparing description. But I wonder how you would have felt if there were more illustrations, Jean Lucio? Where there are illustrations, do you find your mental image, however indistinct, overriding them?
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Aug 16, 2020 6:50:26 GMT -5
I wouldn't mind if there were more illustrations. I recently read Wondla (books 1 and 2 but 3 I haven't read yet, because it must be in some moving box). It is full of wonderful illustrations and I loved it. Illustrations in children's books are essential and part of the nostalgic feeling when an adult decides to read something childlike. On the other hand, I remember when I read Sherlock Holmes a few years ago and there was only one illustration in the edition that I bought, and in that illustration it showed Sherlock Holmes' face in the middle of the book. That offended me a little, because it was totally different from what I was imagining and it was a break in the rhythm of the story. On the other hand, I am very happy to have never seen any illustration of Poirot or Jane Murple other than the floor plans. Literature made for adults needs to use illustrations very carefully I think.
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Post by counto on Aug 17, 2020 22:23:20 GMT -5
Picture books show you what they look like, with regular books we use our imagination
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