Lemony Snicket.com: Book Blast 2

[Flaneur]

"What You Need to Know About Lemony Snicket's The Penultimate Peril": www.lemonysnicket.com/event/bookblast2.html

Linked to by someone from a LiveJournal community. Have not found the link to it on the main site yet.

Item 10.

Shocking.

Gaaaah.

To be coherent, I can only assume they mean the swimming woman/diving helmet woman/woman in trunk of taxi man's car. Which one? All of? Don't know. Discuss.

!!!!!!!

[Dante]

I've compiled a list of possible questions to fit the answers, although only 9 and 10 are phrased as actual answers; the rest could be random tidbits.

1. How many more books are there in A Series of Unfortunate Events?
2. Was it safe for a pregnant taxi driver to run off the road, even under those circumstances?
3. How can I read the backwards text in The Penultimate Peril?
4. Can I make a reservation at the Hotel Denouement?
5. Who are Sir and Charles?
6. Since Dewey Denouement is dead, does that mean Frank and Ernest are now twins rather than triplets?
7. Is the High Court accountable to anyone?
8. What happened to Esmé Squalor’s special hors d’oeuvres?
9. Were the Baudelaire orphans and Count Olaf guilty or innocent?
10. Is Beatrice the person who [...]?

Obviously, my phrasing of the last question is somewhat incomplete, as it's so ambiguous that it could refer to quite a lot of situations.

Edit: I wonder if they are answers to actual questions received by HarperCollins, or whether Book Blast just made them up.

[Flaneur]

sc0tty said:

I'm aware that you said, first of all, that you couldn't find the link. Then you started talking about it like we could all read/find the article.

A person posted on an aSoUE LiveJournal community the link to this page, which I put in my first post. I meant that I could see no linking to it from the main LemonySnicket.com; however, I have now discovered that it's from an e-mail from BookBlast.

I think the questions have to have been made up, or at least the last one has to. I can see no way anyone could get that idea, or why HarperCollins or BookBlast would have chosen to create this article without the reason being to let out this detail.
They could have taken the other answers from questions they were actually asked, though.

[Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo]

I deleted my post. I repeatedly clicked it, and it wouldn't work. However, after posting that, I clicked it, and it worked. Therefore I deleted my post.

[Dante]

I guess there's one other thing we can say about this message: It doesn't actually give us any useful information. Question 10 was probably just made up without reference to the book at all, or is just a complete red herring. And only questions 1, 7, 8, and 9 seem like questions anyone would actually have, or rather, answers anyone would actually need.

However, it might indicate that we can expect more Book Blast articles on LemonySnicket.com in the future, which would be very welcome. This one, though, seems just like filler to tide us over until they start giving out information about the upcoming books again.

Edit: Also, I've edited the thread's title to make it more specific.

[Antenora]

I suspect that HC just made up those questions, myself. Most of the answers aren't really helpful.

Item 6 does seem to confirm something I'd been unclear on: Both Frank and Ernest are alive. I hope we see them in book 13, myself, or at least learn more about them.

The "High Court" one did make me wonder, though, about authority in the ASOUE world. Is there a government that the High Court answers to? We've heard of a few leaders such as the Duchess and the King of Arizona, but apparently the court isn't accountable to them.

[Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo]

I don't think it actually implies that Frank and Ernest are alive in the next book, just at the end of Book The Twelfth.

[Deleted]

OMG 10

[beatriceblake]

Does this mean that Beatrice is alive at the time of the Baudelaire's story and dies sometime between this and Lemony writing the books?

[Antenora]

That's a possibility I've considered; if Beatrice is currently alive, she'll probably die in Book 13(whether or not Lemony thinks she's dead at the time the earlier books are taking place).

sc0tty said:

I don't think it actually implies that Frank and Ernest are alive in the next book, just at the end of Book The Twelfth.

If they're alive at the end of book 12, they'll most likely live to see Book 13 as well, since it'll pick up right where TPP left off.

[lauren]

How very interesting! Beatrice could be anyone from the women in the taxi, the diving woman, the woman who constantly refers to her mum...or the mum of that woman....anyone

[Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo]

tocuna said:

sc0tty said:

I don't think it actually implies that Frank and Ernest are alive in the next book, just at the end of Book The Twelfth.

If they're alive at the end of book 12, they'll most likely live to see Book 13 as well, since it'll pick up right where TPP left off.

Yes, it will pick up where Book Twelve left off. However, I might not have made this clear, there is a massive fire at the end of TPP. I don't think they would have survived that.

[callum]

yes i think these are genuine (usually red gerrings are misleading not completly false)
i think no# 10 was referring to the woman in the back of the car
i think the shocking revalation about beatrice wil be something big the bauds find out about after meeting her then conveniently she dies

[A. the Returned]

I received the email today. Did anyone else notice on the side, there is a link to the Nameless Novel site under the heading, 'there is nothing here'. I went there and now it has a message that you are too late but to sign up to Author tracker to receive secret communications. I wonder what these could be. The Beatrice answer could have too many questions for us to possibly figure it out.

[Juan Roberto Montoya De Toledo]

I think it's just another way of saying 'news about these books'.