Happy Snicket Day
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tealinWelcome to the Hotel Denouement!
I know what I'm doing at lunch. And on the bus.
You know, up until this morning, I was nearly certain the book was actually going to be called The Nameless Novel. Because they would do that.
MUCHO SPOILERS:
Kit ... is pregnant? I thought she'd be too busy fighting evil and escaping dastardly plots and sending coded messages for a night of wild passion. I'm ... I'm not even going to think about that.
Vessel For Disaccharides. [rolls eyes]
I am sure that at some point, there will be some sort of reference to The Importance of Being Earnest.
I played (well, looked at the music and held my violin up and sort of stumbled around the notes) the overture to La Forza del Destino at music camp last year, and at the time I liked it enough to think I needed to check it out from the library ... now I definitely will. A little thing not mentioned in the book thus far is that the composer is Verdi ... whose name not only means 'green' but also has a convenient initial. Verdi's Finest Drama, anyone?
9:14 pm
I have just read an obvious example of the Sebald Code but I can't get it to work! Gnuh!
And long live the Dewey Decimal System. I would want ... hmm, probably room 398. 398.21, to be precise. My favourite Dewey number. (Boy, it sure would be embarassing if I remembered it wrong...)
7:52 am Wednesday
I am loving the spatulas.
Esme Squalor = AAAAH. Fashion has gone too far. Toooo far.
2:01 pm Wednesday
Aha, so Bertrand is Mr Baudelaire ... and he, we know, as well as Beatrice, tamed lions.
Wouldn't it be wacky if Count Olaf turned out to be a 'good guy.' Haha. That would be almost as crazy as Natasha.
9:40 PM - UPON COMPLETION OF THE NOVEL
Well. that was ... that was something.
Some random notes: While the fire was no great surprise, the gigantic cast reunion was. The question of whether J.S. was Justice Strauss or Jerome Squalor was very efficiently dealt with. I liked the passage about wicked people not having time to read, and it has affirmed my bus ridership, where I read 90% of this novel and which allows me a brief respite in fiction no matter how hectic my schedule.
Most interesting of all, I thought, was the shift in theme, or at least percieved shift in theme. So far, or at least in the later books, Snicket has taken a refreshing if unfashionable stance against moral relativism, arguing that some things are just wrong. While noble people may do wicked things, and vice versa, the actions themselves usually have an absolute positive or negative value, and to see a crime as excusable if one person does it but damnable if done by another is a ridiculous and invalid point of view. In Penultimate Peril, this philosophical viewpoint seems to get a bit hazy ... I await the resolution, if there is one, with great interest.
BBC Quote of the Day:
See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you'll be wondering where the grenade is.
I know what I'm doing at lunch. And on the bus.
You know, up until this morning, I was nearly certain the book was actually going to be called The Nameless Novel. Because they would do that.
MUCHO SPOILERS:
Kit ... is pregnant? I thought she'd be too busy fighting evil and escaping dastardly plots and sending coded messages for a night of wild passion. I'm ... I'm not even going to think about that.
Vessel For Disaccharides. [rolls eyes]
I am sure that at some point, there will be some sort of reference to The Importance of Being Earnest.
I played (well, looked at the music and held my violin up and sort of stumbled around the notes) the overture to La Forza del Destino at music camp last year, and at the time I liked it enough to think I needed to check it out from the library ... now I definitely will. A little thing not mentioned in the book thus far is that the composer is Verdi ... whose name not only means 'green' but also has a convenient initial. Verdi's Finest Drama, anyone?
9:14 pm
I have just read an obvious example of the Sebald Code but I can't get it to work! Gnuh!
And long live the Dewey Decimal System. I would want ... hmm, probably room 398. 398.21, to be precise. My favourite Dewey number. (Boy, it sure would be embarassing if I remembered it wrong...)
7:52 am Wednesday
I am loving the spatulas.
Esme Squalor = AAAAH. Fashion has gone too far. Toooo far.
2:01 pm Wednesday
Aha, so Bertrand is Mr Baudelaire ... and he, we know, as well as Beatrice, tamed lions.
Wouldn't it be wacky if Count Olaf turned out to be a 'good guy.' Haha. That would be almost as crazy as Natasha.
9:40 PM - UPON COMPLETION OF THE NOVEL
Well. that was ... that was something.
Some random notes: While the fire was no great surprise, the gigantic cast reunion was. The question of whether J.S. was Justice Strauss or Jerome Squalor was very efficiently dealt with. I liked the passage about wicked people not having time to read, and it has affirmed my bus ridership, where I read 90% of this novel and which allows me a brief respite in fiction no matter how hectic my schedule.
Most interesting of all, I thought, was the shift in theme, or at least percieved shift in theme. So far, or at least in the later books, Snicket has taken a refreshing if unfashionable stance against moral relativism, arguing that some things are just wrong. While noble people may do wicked things, and vice versa, the actions themselves usually have an absolute positive or negative value, and to see a crime as excusable if one person does it but damnable if done by another is a ridiculous and invalid point of view. In Penultimate Peril, this philosophical viewpoint seems to get a bit hazy ... I await the resolution, if there is one, with great interest.
BBC Quote of the Day:
See a pin and pick it up, and all day long you'll be wondering where the grenade is.
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Date: 2005-10-18 05:11 pm (UTC)Jon (at school so can't log in)
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Date: 2005-10-18 08:12 pm (UTC)Hoorah for Book the 12th!
Date: 2005-10-19 01:47 am (UTC)Huzzah for Book the 12th!
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Date: 2005-10-24 12:41 am (UTC)Cool! Did you make that?
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Date: 2005-10-25 12:24 pm (UTC)Wow
Date: 2005-10-29 01:54 am (UTC)Snicket
Date: 2005-10-21 02:24 am (UTC)Gosh, I hope not.
-BigHeadBoy
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Date: 2005-10-21 02:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-30 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-21 09:19 pm (UTC)*loses*
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Date: 2005-10-23 01:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-24 12:45 am (UTC)I've read about half of these so far... must pick up the others someday.
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Date: 2005-10-24 01:39 pm (UTC)As for the sugar bowl, I actually cracked up laughing for a good minute. Science geeks of the world unite!