A Series of Causes and Effects

[tealin]

So I was checking out my friends list and octaveleap has an interview with the amazing Mr Handler posted – thankfully behind a cut because it contains, in her words, BIG FAT FREAKING SPOILERs. I decide my innocence is too valuable and with a great deal of self-discipline manage to wrench the cursor away from the cut. This makes me wonder, though, so I go check Amazon to remember what the release date for the new book is and I find it's ten days earlier than I thought! That's cool. I scroll down looking for any vague clue of more information, but instead I find that little section that gives you lists other people have made. And one of them is ... 'READ BOOKS THAT FIREFIGHTERS READ WITH THEIR KIDS!!'

Heehee. Multiple amusing images float before my mind.

Also: I had searched for this book by typing 'Snicket' in the search bar, and this product came up on the list. ... um? I can make the connection in my head, but how did a computer dredge that up?

Comments

[fryingpanofdoom.livejournal.com]

There should be a new list on Amazon:
"Read Books that Commanders of the City Watch Read to Their Kids"
aka "Where's my Cow."

Are you going to get that now that you've ordered from Amazon?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Dunno ... It might be interesting to read maybe once. I'll look at it if and when I ever find it in a bookstore, and then decide. I have ordered from Amazon before (though I'm hard pressed to think of anything I have ordered for myself... they seem to all have been gifts) but when it's a new release I've been waiting for I like to go into the actual bookstore and pick up a copy that way. It's more exciting. Provided they have it.

[smokingguncafe.livejournal.com]

I just love it when authors toss off major plot points as if they meant nothing. Just to mess around with us.

[(Anonymous)]

... well heck I typed in hawaii and got like a pick of some wierd cow gut.

[(Anonymous)]

I clicked the interview link with the intention to sneak a peak at the first question, and it's perfectly kosher. You can read the interview. In fact, you've probably already read it if you frequent www.thenamelessnovel.com. It's just the thing where he gives little one word responses and then spews about keeping secrets for the last answer.

[salamandersoup.livejournal.com]

I clicked the interview link to peak at the first question, and it's entirely kosher. You can read it, no problem. In fact, you've probably already read it if you frequent www.thenamlessnovel.com. It's just the one where he gives little one word responses and then spews about keeping secrets for the last answer.

[octaveleap.livejournal.com]

Really? *I* thought it was a big fat spoiler.... I guess I'm a little behind the times. And I read nameless novel, too! ...Musta missed that one... Anyway, hehe, sorry to be a tease then :-p

Mr. Handler Interview

[(Anonymous)]

I think perhaps the spoiler is in the last paragraph where it says 'ringing bells'. If you use the sebald code here, it says something like 'It's Justice'. This could mean that the J.S., whose initials were engraved in the jam jar, is Justice Strauss.
But, if you think about it, that wouldn't really spoil anything anyway.

-BigHeadBoy

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

WELL, in the index to the Unauthorized Autobiography, under Justice Strauss, is says 'see disguises,' so I do hope we eventually find out what that's all about.

Clever of you for applying the Sebald code...

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

J.S. could also be Jerome Squalor ... that darn clever author has gone and set up so many J.S.s ... [funfusion!]

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

What, pray tell, does candy have to do with Snicket????

By the way.... we deeply missed you at the Witching Hour!

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

... Witching Hour? Eh?

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

Aye...The Witching Hour! In Salem, MA. It was pretty good.

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Oh. Um ... I was supposed to be there?

[canisdoofus.livejournal.com]

You're a Harry Potter Fan Artist. I think you would have enjoyed it!