Book 12 Title Rumor/Speculation Thread

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

You've just sparked an idea in my head:
Ignited Inn

[LiamSnicket]

hmm.. i personally think that handler will probably use something that NO ONE has thought of, u noe, 2 show he isnt prdictable. like the grim grotto for one, everyone wuz thinkin things with water even though he gave us most of the title but still, when would someone think of THE GRIMM GROTTO. not something that common for bodies of water. hell probably surprise us again.

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

yes probably with the entire title now being shrouded in mystery he has PLENTY of options now open. But that doesn't mean we can't guess...

[SnicketFires]

LiamSnicket said:

hmm.. i personally think that handler will probably use something that NO ONE has thought of, u noe, 2 show he isnt prdictable. like the grim grotto for one, everyone wuz thinkin things with water even though he gave us most of the title but still, when would someone think of THE GRIMM GROTTO. not something that common for bodies of water. hell probably surprise us again.

We did think of Grim Grotto, though.

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

So did others.
This angelfire site I used to go to a year ago estimated the title even in December of 2003. So I had a clear estimation of what the title was before I even found 667 and then others here had guessed that as well.

[QuagmireFan]

13th book:Flammable finish

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

I always went with Frightening finish...

[Duchess9876]

Violet said:

I think for 12 maybe The Lousy Lane or Lousy Lodge.

Lousy Lodge? You had it on the nose with Lousy Lane. It's right there in the back of book 11, just as all of the titles have been in the back of the book just before, in the letters LS has written to his editor. (Or telegram, in one instance.) It's not like you even have to dig for it; it's in the first torn letter at the end of book 11. The title of book 12 will DEFINITELY be LOUSY LANE.

[NOTE: I must give credit to my son for working this out--he told me and his sister about this before I'd even read the eleventh book.]

[Dante]

Duchess9876 said:

Lousy Lodge? You had it on the nose with Lousy Lane. It's right there in the back of book 11, just as all of the titles have been in the back of the book just before, in the letters LS has written to his editor. (Or telegram, in one instance.) It's not like you even have to dig for it; it's in the first torn letter at the end of book 11. The title of book 12 will DEFINITELY be LOUSY LANE.

[NOTE: I must give credit to my son for working this out--he told me and his sister about this before I'd even read the eleventh book.]

Imbecile! It does not say "The Lousy Lane," it says "Lousy Lane" and is referring to a place. The title is always in block capitals, quotes, or larger letters. "Lousy Lane" is not. Now stop wasting time with such uninformed idiocy!

[Duchess9876]

I'm said:

Imbecile! It does not say "The Lousy Lane," it says "Lousy Lane" and is referring to a place. The title is always in block capitals, quotes, or larger letters. "Lousy Lane" is not. Now stop wasting time with such uninformed idiocy!

Imbecile back atcha, extraordinarily rude and malicious person. On that theory, The Grim Grotto should not be a book title either, nor a great number of the other titles, which are also places. The Grim Grotto was also not in block letters at the end of book 10, which blows your highly dubious so-called theory. There is no reason that it needs to appear in the letter as "The Lousy Lane." The only block letters that appear in the letters--to which you attach so much importance--at the end of GG are the words NOT USE THE. Are you suggesting that this is the new title? I'm sorry, I thought that this was a place for civil conversation, not a place where reasoned discourse was going to be disrupted by insults and speculation with no grounds whatsoever. My bloody mistake. You will have the opportunity to eat your words--with wasabi--when the 12th book arrives with the title THE LOUSY LANE.

[Angel]

AnnaKarenina said:

Also, I was looking at ihavethesugarbowl's thread, and she gave us a link to an interview with Handler. The interviewer asked:
TFK: Have you begun writing the 12th book? Can you share any clues as to what that book will be about?
Lemony Snicket: Oh my, yes. Young readers who are fans of Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man, in which one can scarcely tell the characters apart let alone what they are doing, might be excited by the 12th volume.

You can look at the link if you want:http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/area/newsarticle/0,18077,698447,00.html

I just thought that was odd....I wonder how it connects...

Oh, the anxiety. Perhaps there will be an imposter or imposters. Actually, there probably will be. Still mysterious, though. I gotta see the rest of that interview... hang on....

As for it being out by April-- cool! That'll help me live through tomorrow's Regents.

[Jacques the Environmentalist]

I HIGHLY doubt that the title is The Lousy Lane as we have already seen Lousy Lane in book two. Yes I think we might see Lousy Lane in the books but no I do not think that is its title.

[RockSunner]

Duchess9876 said:

I'm sorry, I thought that this was a place for civil conversation, not a place where reasoned discourse was going to be disrupted by insults and speculation with no grounds whatsoever. My bloody mistake. You will have the opportunity to eat your words--with wasabi--when the 12th book arrives with the title THE LOUSY LANE.

I prefer reasoned discourse myself, and on that basis I doubt that the title will be "The Lousy Lane." Here is the context in the letter in question:

Lousy Lane ends in cul-de-[sac]... gas station attendant, wh[o]... the complete manuscript...

Isn't it clear in context that this is a description of where and how to pick up the manuscript, and not the title? The letters almost always contain complex directions to the publisher.

It seems to me that the title must have appeared on the torn-off part of the letters. There is a precedent for not giving the titles every time. The title "Grim Grotto" was completely washed out and illegible.

(My guess for the title is "The Dire Dirigible." We'll see soon...)

[Antenora]

Jacques said:

I HIGHLY doubt that the title is The Lousy Lane as we have already seen Lousy Lane in book two. Yes I think we might see Lousy Lane in the books but no I do not think that is its title.

I doubt somewhat that Lousy Lane will figure into this book. If you look at the map in the autobiography, you can infer from the path of the trolley tracks(which lead from the city) that this city is somewhere off the southwest corner of the map. Assuming that the hotel is in or near the city(as I think it is) and Kit takes a fairly direct path to it, perhaps using one of the "lesser lanes" shown by dotted lines, she won't be going near Lousy Lane.

By the way, does anyone know where Prufrock Prep is relative to the city or another location? I'm trying to put together a map showing every place the orphans have been, by extending the one in the autobio.

[cwm3]

I heard that the title will be "The Poached Prostitute."