Here's To 7 Years Of Snicket!

[Carma]

I started in 2003, after I saw my friend reading them.

Cheers everybody.

[OrangeYoYo]

D'you know, I actually followed the warnings that Mr. Snicket gave me at first. I dropped a copy of the Hostile Hospital in a bookstore. But later, I started reading them fervently...Must have been last year, or the year before that.

[edgar]

I started at about the time Grim Grotto came out in mid 2004 I was in Utah, and my grandma is a teacher, so she took me to her school and I checked out (stole and then gave back ) the first two. I was hooked immediately and read them in one day. I bought the rest in groups of three (TWW, TMM, and TAA, Then after them TEE, TVV and THH, then TCC and TSS) and I finished them all before TGG came out, and I got TPP and TE on opening days. It's been a fine couple of years, and they are definately tied with a couple other series for my favorite books. Cheers, to ASOUE and to Mr. D. Handler, a great author who pleases the fans and writes great books, and a lot of cheers to Mr. B. Helqist for such great illustrations that have inspired me greatly.

[bluexshoes]

I got TBB the same day I got Narnia... so that was... early 2000, late 1999 I beleive. Its been fun. Now I feel like starting them over.

[asher]

I was ASoUE addicted, which here means "couldn't put the books down", from the start. It's been great.

[korovamilkbar14]

I started in about 2000. Amazing series.

[mistakenfrisbee]

I started reading a month before I turned 11 (summer of 2002)...three or four months before TCC came out. I found book two in an airport store on my way to my grandmother's house in Utah for the summer and wanted to see what the fuss was about. I've loved it ever since.

[runordie]

all my editions are first, so....

[s]

It's been a good four years since I began reading the series. Thank you, Mr. Handler; you've certainly influenced me a good deal more than is perhaps healthy.

[Orangey Snicket]

It's somehow been coming to 8 years for me (started in 1999). I started at TBB.
Book orders and sister's influence.

[Linda Rhaldeen]

I started in early 2003, though I'd been aware of them for quite some time; I believe since about the time TMM came out or possibly earlier. I remember seeing them in a book order and thinking they sounded dumb, and the only reason I even began reading them in the first place is because the book I wanted to get from the library was checked out and I desperately needed reading material. It's kind of sad, really, and I wish I'd started reading them a lot sooner.

[ineedyourhelp]

I started on the series in the summer after 5th grade in 2001, but I had gotten TBB from somewhere before then, but had never gotten around to read it until that summer. Ever since then I haven't been able to put them down.

[A. the Returned]

I started at the end of 2001, sometime after THH as I remember reading a review by one of year 6 classmates which got me hooked. I remember buying TRR in Amsterdam while on holiday.

[beatriceblake]

I started reading them when I saw The Bad Beginning in a bookshop one Christmas and thought it would make a good present for my younger sister.

[jemima]

I was a very late bloomer of the ASoUE series. My first encounter with them had been with an old friend of mine who was reading The Bad Beginning in 2002. I forgot about it for a long time until they started showing the previews for the movie on TV. I remembered my friend and the book, and I knew it was based on the series, so I wanted to read the series before I saw the movie. (I wanted to see it because it looked like the dark humor things I like, hehheh.) So, I became an avid reader in August 2004.

Cheers to Daniel Handler! We love you, Mr. Snicket, and we've followed you for the years we read the books. A wonderful toast to you.