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Post by Hermes on Jan 28, 2018 19:08:06 GMT -5
... by Neil Patrick Harris.
Has anyone read it? Is it any good?
(It has an approving quote from Lemony Snicket, but possibly he is biased in this case.)
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Post by Dante on Jan 30, 2018 4:45:32 GMT -5
I've been thinking about acquiring it. If I do, I'll be sure to report back.
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Post by Esmé's meme is meh on Jan 30, 2018 9:25:17 GMT -5
I bought it some weeks ago but didn't have time to read it! I'll make sure to write a review when I'm done.
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Post by Hermes on Apr 22, 2019 9:24:39 GMT -5
Well, I've finished it, and it's - quite nice. NPH is clearly a Snicket fan - this comes over in many ways, the way the narrator addresses the audience, the fact that the hero may possibly be an orphan, and some features of the plot, which recall a number of the books but especially TCC. The book contains a number of secret messages, which are not that hard to decipher, and their content is not especially exciting, though there's a hint at another hidden message which is harder to find. Does real magic exist? Probably not of the kind you were hoping for - NPH agrees with Snicket on this. But his general view of the world seems a lot more hopeful. And one of the characters may be a 667er.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Apr 22, 2019 12:06:22 GMT -5
Do you mean one of the characters acts like a (specific) 667er, or the character may actually be a knowing nod to one of us??
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Post by Foxy on Apr 22, 2019 12:20:24 GMT -5
I had never heard of these before, but my library has the first two, so I will be reading them! I like the title of the third one, and I am assuming the book has something to do with music based on the boy playing the violin (or is it a viola?) Thanks, Hermes, for the suggestion!
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Post by Hermes on Apr 22, 2019 14:52:11 GMT -5
Wait, there's a third book? We've only got as far as the second here - which, come to think of it, has a Snickety title.
Terry: neither of them, really, just that he has the name of a 667er. But it's a rare enough name that I was rather struck by its appearance.
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Post by Foxy on Apr 22, 2019 19:55:27 GMT -5
Oops, I just looked it up and learned the third book is not expected to come out until September 10 of this year. It is going to be called The Minor Third.
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Post by Foxy on May 8, 2019 13:47:39 GMT -5
I just finished the first book. There were a lot of similarities to ASOUE. I noticed the blurb by Snicket on the back cover. Carter being left with his Uncle Sly sounds a lot like the Baudelaires getting left with Count Olaf. The carnival reminded me of TCC, and Bosso and his crew were like Olaf and his crew. The hotel reminded me of TPP.
There was no thirteenth chapter! So that was a big difference.
My favorite quote: "You've been following me around since we left Mom's womb!"
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Post by Dante on May 8, 2019 15:52:15 GMT -5
Over a year after saying I was thinking about acquiring it, I'm still only thinking; but that's an interesting report. I may actually have to make a movement on the subject.
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Post by Foxy on May 10, 2019 9:00:18 GMT -5
I don't know if I would recommend them, to be honest. I don't really like the writing style. I started reading the second one because I wanted to give the series a chance, and I liked that the magic club meetings seemed kind of like V.F.D. meetings, and then there was a character named Sandra who reminded me of Madame Lulu, but then it started going into séances and ghosts, so I decided not to read anymore. I might try the third one when it comes out.
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Post by Dante on Aug 18, 2020 12:11:33 GMT -5
Keeping up my trend of participating in this thread far more slowly than I could have ever intended, I finally read The Magic Misfits a little while ago! Volume one, anyway; I think they're actually up to the fourth and final by now. My memory of the plot is a little on the hazy side, alas. I think the premise has a lot of potential, though I have an idea that things felt a little too easy at the end; but I felt the backstory, both of the protagonist and of the adult character, was more successful and something I would be interested in seeing more of. That each book appears to be focussing on a particular one of the Misfits strikes me as very intriguing, cementing each of them as a protagonist in their own right rather than only side characters to the real lead. I can definitely see myself checking out the remaining volumes... if only Egmont would make it a little easier; they appear to have published a hardcover version of the second volume way back in 2018 and then left it at that, leaving me with little choice other than to purchase the American editions from now on...
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