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Post by Alfred is Present on Apr 8, 2006 1:54:30 GMT -5
I cannot accept the cover there.
It has to something like white, yellow, or something like that. Then, the spine words will be written in some other color.
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Post by cwm3 on Apr 8, 2006 3:55:23 GMT -5
Do we even know this is the official picture? Perhaps they just made some minimal alterations to the covers of one of the other books they slapped up on Amazon before releasing the official cover later.
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Post by Dante on Apr 8, 2006 5:54:41 GMT -5
I think Fiona and Fernald are not connected as family either because : They are step brother and sister. Actually, as far as we know, they are complete brother and sister, with the same mother and father. If I recall correctly, the newspaper article merely said that Fernald had started the fire, and didn't mention his death or escape or anything. Also, we've had teaser covers for ages now. The new-ish one looks like a faded version of the previous one, and I'm inclined to think just that - it's the same teaser as before, with the apparent slight colour difference being due to image quality. Besides, why would they use purple when there's so much else they could use that's not so similar? Edit: Gosh, I was in such a hurry earlier. I completely forgot - teaser covers are off-topic here; this thread is only for directly official stuff like AuthorTrackers and anything that appears on LemonySnicket.com. Teaser covers should be discussed in the Official B13 Speculation Thread. As for the April Fool's Day prank, I knew it was a prank immediately because I'd predicted that there would be one. However, as somebody said, it's possible that there's a grain of truth in there - for example, there could be just one parent happy in their new home, or both or one could be unhappy in their new home, or something like that. (And we already know that TBL will have photographs, from the Thirteen Shocking Secrets.) I count it as being fairly unlikely, as the stuff in the list is all fairly straightforward and there can't be many loopholes, but I'll grant that there could be a bit of truth in it (for would not that be the real April Fool's Day prank?). Also, I'm considering - since we're getting a slight bit of TBL information in these AuthorTrackers and such - to changing the title of this thread to allude to all future books (as in, B13 and TBL), but I'll wait and see what information comes up in future. |
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Post by Antenora on Apr 8, 2006 7:25:36 GMT -5
I think that if there's any grain of truth in the April Fool's letter, it lies in the statement about the Baudelaires' journey having a triumphant end. Unlike the others, that one's somewhat vague, and could imply a triumph for Olaf--or merely state that the Baudelaires will get out of their ordeals alive and relatively well, which would be comparatively triumphant.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2006 8:43:25 GMT -5
Do we even know this is the official picture? Perhaps they just made some minimal alterations to the covers of one of the other books they slapped up on Amazon before releasing the official cover later. No, it was on bn.com first |
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Post by cwm3 on Apr 8, 2006 9:33:43 GMT -5
Which means it might be something bn.com slapped up before releasing the official cover later.
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Post by Dante on Apr 8, 2006 10:00:09 GMT -5
Which means it might be something bn.com slapped up before releasing the official cover later. Actually, the same teaser cover - or at least, the previous version of it, which was somewhat darker in colour - is also on LemonySnicket.com's books page, and I've never seen B&N put up anything cheap or fake (whereas Amazon had a TPP teaser cover instead of a B13 one for weeks, and hardly seems to bother putting up covers anymore). If I see a cover on B&N - a Snicket-related one, at least - I consider it to be official, since it's always proven to be thus far. Indeed, they've had them relatively early, before the covers have appeared on LemonySnicket.com or in publicly-released HC material. |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2006 10:58:18 GMT -5
Which means it might be something bn.com slapped up before releasing the official cover later. Actually, the same teaser cover - or at least, the previous version of it, which was somewhat darker in colour - is also on LemonySnicket.com's books page Yes there is, I forgot about that. EDIT: here it is:  |
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Post by cwm3 on Apr 10, 2006 5:48:22 GMT -5
Well, it's obviously not the final cover...it's unlikely they're going to release the book with "THE END: Too Dreadful To Picture", right? Everyone prefers the detailed picture.
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Post by Dante on Apr 10, 2006 7:04:01 GMT -5
Well, yeah. That's why it's called a teaser cover. Point is, it's on LemonySnicket.com, so it's official material. Although it wouldn't really matter at all, because that might not even be the final spine colour, they could just be having the teaser restyled as TBB as a sort of teaser of a teaser, or to promote discussion (which it certainly has done).
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Post by aly07 on Apr 10, 2006 17:06:48 GMT -5
Oh man, I finally made it through an entire discussion. I feel so proud of myself. I don't even know where to begin. Well, I don't believe that's the true book cover. Maybe it's just my Harry Potter roots, but I like to think author's like to provide us with covers so vague that we have endless hours of fun guessing what it could lead to. However, this cover is so vague, it's not even vague. What could I ensue from this cover? Hm...oh! I got it! The Baudelaire bumpkins are lying in their warm beds, fast asleep, where it's so dark you can't even see. Suddenly, Mama pushes the door open and turns on the lights, "Wake up, children! It's a beautiful day outside!" Then she flings open the curtains and the orphans see the sun smiling at them. The End.
What? It's as likely as Beatrice being the Hook-Handed Man.
Enough joking, I am in agreement that the April Fool's Prank has truth in it. Something that when we do read The End, we'll hit our heads and say, "Duh! I should have realised that!"
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Post by joker on Apr 10, 2006 18:42:35 GMT -5
Well, about it being the real thing or not:
I believe that The End: Too Dreadful To Picture
is not the official PICTURE, as the PP had something like it.
But, then again, on the teasers of PP, the spine color was the same as real.
So: The pic on the teaser cover will not (if it is they're dead) be the real one, but the spine color (I think, at least) will be the same, although I can't say I'm not dissapointed. I was hoping for it to be white and gold spine letters. Grrr...
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Post by Dante on Apr 11, 2006 14:24:13 GMT -5
Hold on, hold on. Some of you actually took that teaser cover seriously? No, no, no. There was never any question of that being the real cover; of course it's not. We've had teaser covers like that for ages. Definitely had one just like that for TGG and TPP, and it's obvious they're doing the same for B13. The illustrations are a defining characertistic of the books, and fans, reviewers, indeed just about everyone, would be highly unimpressed by the lack of a cover image; it's just lazy, so it'd be a strange world where they actually did that. No, the only thing on that teaser cover which is at all likely to be accurate is the spine colour, and possibly not even that. The same goes for the title - "The End" is almost certainly a teaser title, as "The Nameless Novel" was for Book 12 (and, to a lesser extent, "The Grim Gr" for Book 11). It's very unlikely that the 12-book naming pattern would be broken now.
I just have to make all this very clear, and in no uncertain terms. Sorry for any impressions of patronisation you may come away with.
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Post by Sugary Snicket on Apr 11, 2006 16:29:21 GMT -5
Think about it: Yes, Lemony confuses us with teasers, but I think that this is exactly what he wants. He's of course trying to fool us because he doesn't want us to read them, right? So, it'd make sense that he made the teaser cover confusing, and recolored it. I highly, highly doubt that this is the actual cover. It's a really stupid thing to think.
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Post by freeeagle on Apr 12, 2006 19:42:39 GMT -5
Why exactly are we debating the colour of the spine anyway? Think about it. An also, why would they just use "THE END Too Dreadful To Picture" as the cover illustration?
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