cephaus
Bewildered Beginner
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Post by cephaus on Sept 20, 2006 6:41:32 GMT -5
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.
really now...
*runs off to check the Beatrice Letters*
I wonder where it could possibly be?
Does anyone have any idea?
Personally, I think it's either in the sonnet - they DID say it was coded... or somewhere in the poster...
Any ideas?
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Post by PJ on Sept 20, 2006 7:26:32 GMT -5
The title? We already know about the title. Perhaps it means the content? I.e Beatrice Sank.
Or perhaps the appearance of Beatrice II?
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Antenora
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Post by Antenora on Sept 20, 2006 8:56:49 GMT -5
I'd be skeptical of this source, as I don't believe that Borders is affiliated directly with the publishers. It looks to me like someone misinterpreted the existing information about TBL, as it's generally agreed that the letters spell out a message about B13's content. Also, my local Borders once had an ad for TCC noting that the Baudelaires "encounter ...Chabo the Wolf Baby", so they've had promotional material clearly written by people who haven't read the books before.
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Post by Dante on Sept 20, 2006 9:11:06 GMT -5
If that information was true, I would have expected HarperCollins, AuthorTracker, Snicket, possibly Barnes & Noble, and other sources to have actually hinted at it or implied it rather than not saying anything at all like that. That sounds a lot like a misinterpretation - when we first heard that TBL would have punch-out letters, then that they'd spell out B13's real title was my first thought, but then we actually found out a lot more about the books and Handler himself and every other source basically confirmed that the title really was The End.
Incidentally, I can't read the article; it redirects to an error page and says that the feature's currently unavailable.
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Post by Gigi on Sept 20, 2006 9:37:12 GMT -5
Don't forget that Borders is associated with Amazon, which is often wrong about such things.
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Post by Dante on Sept 20, 2006 9:42:47 GMT -5
On a different and not really noteworthy note, Egmont (the U.K. publishers) have finally added a page on The End to their own site, and they've updated UnfortunateEvents.com for the first time in months to warn that, er, there are only 23 days until The End is released. (Egmont's webpage gives the wrong cover for their edition of TBL, and UE.com doesn't mention TBL at all - I'm wondering if they consider TBL to basically be a HarperCollins book rather than their own.)
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Post by RockSunner on Sept 20, 2006 12:28:26 GMT -5
Having the title encoded in the sonnet would be a grotesque anachronism. I hope they don't do this. Obviously Beatrice couldn't predict a title of a book published years after her death. On the other hand, Lemony could be inspired to title a book based on a message he recently decoded.
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Post by Jacques the Environmentalist on Sept 21, 2006 21:25:10 GMT -5
hm. I'm not sure I trust this. ESPECIALLY if it's got ties to Amazon which is like our version of the Daily Punctilio.
I still haven't been able to find a code in the sonnet. Then again it also took me days to decipher "beatrice sank"
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Post by RockSunner on Sept 22, 2006 7:29:17 GMT -5
Yes, they really haven/t given us enough time between TBL and TE to work out the code, if the secret is just the title,
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Post by Kevin the Freak on Sept 22, 2006 10:07:53 GMT -5
You see, now some people are starting to think that what I suggested ages ago was right  However,can this source be 100% relied on? |
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Post by Dante on Sept 22, 2006 10:12:00 GMT -5
However,can this source be 100% relied on? Every time I've tried the link, it hasn't worked at all. For me, the source doesn't even exist, which is one reason why I don't feel compelled to think much of it. The other reasons are the ones I've posted before (not a source connected directly to HarperCollins, and that interpretation of TBL hasn't ever been even implied in official material, or anywhere outside of our own TBL pre-release speculation). |
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Post by Kevin the Freak on Sept 22, 2006 17:20:51 GMT -5
Yeah. Exactly. Still, it seems a good idea, and a cunning plan.  |
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Post by Dante on Sept 25, 2006 13:32:42 GMT -5
I've discovered three online bookstores using the following intriguing synopsis: " Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe." |
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Post by orphansrgreat on Sept 25, 2006 13:45:43 GMT -5
Wow . . . noice. So who are the inhabitanta. The female finnish pirates pehaps?
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Post by Gigi on Sept 25, 2006 14:48:16 GMT -5
The Others?  |
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