June 16, 2004

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Lemony Snicket

Yesterday I read The Bad Beginning, the first in A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket. It’s an easy read, and a rather engaging one at that. “Engaging” in this context means “I had lots of errands and chores to accomplish that were neglected because I was reading the book.” If you’re not familiar with the series, you can learn a lot just from the title of the series. The events in the entire series are, I understand, terribly unfortunate for the set of protagonist siblings, the Baudelaires. I took a particular liking to the youngest of the Baudelaire siblings, Sunny, who likes to bite things. I will soon be writing a Freudian analysis of the novel, as soon as time allows (“as soon as time allows” in this case means never, as my Victorian sense of decency forbids me to ever write anything of the kind). Incidentally, someone has written a Freudian analysis of The Cat in the Hat. So far as I know, though, none have been written about any of Lemony Snicket’s works.

Posted by jonsligh at June 16, 2004 04:35 PM
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As one who has read all installments of the Series of Unfortunate Events to this point, I can assure you that rotten miserable things happen to the Baudelaire orphans. I particularly like the bookish Klaus, although I admire Violet's creativity. The movie based on the books will be released in December of this year . . . .

Posted by: prufrock at June 17, 2004 09:22 AM

i must see it!
i agree with your positive assessment of klaus and violet. but really--can creativity or bookishness ever be as admirable as the propensity to bite everything in sight? and we certainly can all identify with sunny. some of us are not bookish, some are not creative; but all of us have, at one time or another, had a habit of sticking everything possible into our mouths. sunny is our everyman of these unfortunate stories.

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