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Post by Libitina on Sept 3, 2006 10:24:26 GMT -5
Hmm, that is a good idea. It's also interesting that the book is referred to as "Book the Thirteenth" on the front cover of The Beatrice Letters (Suspiciously linked to Book the Thirteenth!) instead of The End. If the title were, in fact, something different, they wouldn't leave the false title on a book like that, for it would be around after we got the real title and it would look inaccurate.
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Post by Antenora on Sept 3, 2006 11:12:05 GMT -5
However, maybe the publishers slapped the sticker on there before they had decided to release The End's real cover, and by the time the news of The End was out, it was too late to change it. It does seem like The End's cover got released kind of spontaneously, or was leaked to the New York Times before they put it on official sites and things.
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Post by Gigi on Sept 3, 2006 11:15:35 GMT -5
Didn't we see photos of TBL cover without the sticket for a while before the sticker was added? And when in the timeline does the release of The End cover fit in there?
It could all be a big conspiracy/surprise, or we are just reading waaaaaay too much into things.
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Post by Dante on Sept 3, 2006 11:27:19 GMT -5
Didn't we see photos of TBL cover without the sticket for a while before the sticker was added? And when in the timeline does the release of The End cover fit in there? It could all be a big conspiracy/surprise, or we are just reading waaaaaay too much into things. There is what I have termed a "draft" cover of TBL - the version originally used towards the end of the Shocking Secrets document has the words "The Beatrice" in black rather than red, and there is no sticker.  So that's kind of what I think was a first draft of the cover, that they tweaked later. Although Egmont's cover for TBL is apparently pretty much identical to that version. I think that using "Book the Thirteenth" rather than the title of the book sounds pretty clumsy on the sticker regardless of whether or not it's meant to be concealing the truth from us. |
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Post by Gigi on Sept 3, 2006 11:41:19 GMT -5
Yes, it clearly has been tweaked. Lemony's signature is a bit more flowing than in that image, and it's in gold. And the letters in LETTERS are different, but I won't say more than that. (It's a cool surprise for Tuesday.)
Anyway, back to The End. If I were laying odds, I would probably only give a 5-10% chance that they are going to fool us with a different title. And maybe those odds are even too high.
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Post by Dante on Sept 5, 2006 6:21:50 GMT -5
Wa-hey, I sure do hate it when my Internet glitches, because now I have to retype my entire post over again! Anyway, Book Blast mentions The End.  1. Clumsily-worded information that Olaf causes the shipwreck, or are they trying to tell us that the shipwreck would have been a good thing but that a terrible villain somehow spoils those good aspects? 2. Even in TGG, they only said that horseradish diluted Medusoid Mycelium. Hm, if the Mycelium is rare, then its true cure might be even rarer. I wonder if you're thinking what I'm thinking? It's good to hear that the Mycelium will still be an issue, anyway. 3. A brae is a hill, although you could have figured that out from the context. I guess it's going to be one of those obscure words that Snicket defines. 4. This could either just be reinforcing the whole "B13's on an island, guys" message, or they could be trying to tell us that the phrase "No man [orphan] is an island" will be used in B13, and which means that people have to depend upon each other. 5. Wow, big surprise. Edit: It also mentions the first Vile Video:  ...and the spotlight is on TBL ( there are screenshots over in AAppendices). |
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Post by s on Sept 5, 2006 14:50:19 GMT -5
Yeah, I just received this.
1. I was thinking the latter, that the shipwreck would somehow have been pleasant were Olaf not involved. However, they're obviously being ambiguous on pupose, and perhaps Olaf is the cause of the shipwreck. It seems likely, anyway.
2. Er, yes. Horseradish. It should be interesting to see the deadly fungus return.
3. Along the same lines as "flaneur," a word he'll define that everyone's choosing to use repeatedly, I presume.
4. Both, methinks.
5. How dreadfully surprising!
...Nothing particularly insightful, but then, there never is.
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Post by Dante on Sept 6, 2006 7:30:56 GMT -5
Incidentally, I found an article about the Vile Videos, although it's got no new information. biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060905/latu028.html?.v=69In fact, I only post it here so I can point out that they say that the Shocking Secrets document came out in May, when that's absolutely not true - it was on LemonySnicket.com in mid-March, but AuthorTracker only started promoting it in May. Given that fact, possibly it wasn't meant to be put on LemonySnicket.com so early? I didn't think a document labelled "Summer Reading" really made sense to be posted in March. Edit: It's all about B&N at the moment, so allow me to contribute a page containing several aSoUE activities, including working versions of the currently inactive "Terrible Trivia" and "Miserable Maze" games from LemonySnicket.com, among others that I haven't seen before. |
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Sept 13, 2006 21:54:32 GMT -5
I doubt they'd spring a new title on us. Even they aren't that diabolical.
Are they?
Well the car crash with Mr. Poe in trr would've been pleasant because it saved them from Olaf. But Olaf made it unpleasant by fooling Mr. Poe. More of the same? Maybe Olaf will fool the FFP into thinking the Baudelaires are evil.
Well the one cure for mycelium is horseradish. But then there's also wasabi. What are they trying to pull?
Brae seems to be a new obsess-over word for Handler.
Again the theme of interdependence.
We already know about the secrets.
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Post by Dante on Sept 15, 2006 12:43:39 GMT -5
From the article I posted right here about The Tragic Treasury: " LS: [...] Is it not enough that a British publishing house known as Egmont is reportedly printing several copies of the 13th and final volume in A Series Of Unfortunate Events, entitled The End, in which the Baudelaires find themselves shipwrecked on a desert island containing a dystopic utopia and an hysterical history, where villainy slaughters and villains are slaughtered and where seaweed, for what is arguably the first time in literary history, is used as a wig?" |
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Post by Linda Rhaldeen on Sept 15, 2006 12:55:03 GMT -5
Hmmm, very interesting. Some of that we already knew, but a dystopic utopia? Perhaps that means the island is inhabited, after all. And the part about villains being slaughtered sounds very similar to Rock Sunner's story.
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Post by Sora on Sept 15, 2006 20:14:13 GMT -5
It seems that this island may be a home for VFD, perhaps a place where The World is Not Quiet, and no-one is truely noble. This is peculiar....
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Post by RockSunner on Sept 16, 2006 0:37:08 GMT -5
Hmmm, very interesting. Some of that we already knew, but a dystopic utopia? Perhaps that means the island is inhabited, after all. And the part about villains being slaughtered sounds very similar to Rock Sunner's story. I'm glad I didn't hear about this interview before I finished the story. I tried to work in as many things as I could from things I heard about TE. But a dytopic utopia on the island wouldn't have worked well for me. (I hope it's not too much like TVV). |
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Post by Flaneur on Sept 19, 2006 19:50:26 GMT -5
One of the books featured in My Borders Monthly - a customizeable e-mailing from the titular bookstore - 's "Independent Reader" selections was tBL: Leave it to that rascally Lemony Snicket to tease us with a book that offers clues about the final book in the Series of Unfortunate Events (coming in October), without simply handing over that final book itself. Here you'll find a series of letters between Snicket himself and the elusive, mysterious Beatrice. Break the embedded code and you'll discover the title of Book the 13th.Then it links to the first Vile Video and the interview located here: www.bordersstores.com/features/feature.jsp?file=snicket3. This interview's introduction repeats: These letters contain hints about the title of the final book, but readers must break the embedded code. And book the 13th, that final volume, which at this point is simply called The End, will be available October 13.More doubts and suspicion. Sigh. |
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Post by superorange on Sept 19, 2006 20:02:31 GMT -5
Why wouldn't the title just be The End? It's a perfect name. D:
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