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Post by Foxy on Jan 9, 2019 9:38:03 GMT -5
I thought it might be fun to do a series of topics on which we discuss the most unbelievable things which happen in the books. I tried to pick one event from each chapter or so. I might post a new poll each week.
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Post by Mr. Dent on Jan 9, 2019 11:10:39 GMT -5
The most unbelievable part of this book is, to me at least, that a scoundrel like Count Olaf would go out of his way to buy fresh raspberries for the children's oatmeal.
It's immersion breaking and basically completely and utterly ruins the whole series.
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Post by Dante on Jan 9, 2019 11:43:21 GMT -5
He got up early, too. Or maybe he just never went to bed the previous night?
Edit: After considerable reflection, I'm going to vote for Count Olaf's escape, purely on the grounds that it involved the intervention of a character who would never appear or even be mentioned again.
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Post by Skelly Craig on Jan 9, 2019 12:19:22 GMT -5
I thought Sunny climbing up the elevator shaft using her teeth in TEE was most often cited as the most unbelievable thing in ASoUE. Maybe it's too absurd to mention?
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Post by Mr. Dent on Jan 9, 2019 12:21:52 GMT -5
This is specifically The Bad Beginning.
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Post by Skelly Craig on Jan 9, 2019 14:01:40 GMT -5
Oh, sorry, I missed that part. My vote goes to the legal loophole of signing with her left hand then.
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Post by Hermes on Jan 11, 2019 11:55:10 GMT -5
I agree with Terry: definitely the hand thing. 'Own hand' does not mean that.
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Post by colette on May 14, 2020 11:50:56 GMT -5
First four are, sadly, believable to me. Children being treated as slaves by their adoptive parents is the thing. The troupe not reacting at Klaus being hit is perfectly realistic, they are bad people. Distrusting child victims of domestic abuse, sadly, happens, people often assume children want to exaggerate their problems.
I'd say Violet's invention is the most unrealistic to me.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on May 14, 2020 14:00:07 GMT -5
It is difficult to say ... What is unrealistic is not always difficult for the reader to accept. Sunny's words being completely understood by Violet and Klaus is undoubtedly unrealistic. But it does not break the suspension of disbelief.
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