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dows anyone think lemony snicket is cool! he's storys are cool, and really sad.
i love his stories. what is your best one? i really like number 4 but they are all good
all of em, but the second one is happy--kind of.
none of them are really that happy.
but still i am dying to find out what happens in the last book
I think they are good, but not with so many. One or two is fine, and then they start getting repetitive. Also I was annoyed with his defining words.
wow, old topic.
I've read all books and though I hate the ending, they are so cute and clever. The defining words is a really cute addition and most times makes me smile.
He did a really great job on the series, and a lot of wit was put into it.
The books were pretty good. I'm not sure which one i liked the most. I liked the movie too.
Wow, talk about an old topic being brought back to life.
I actually read the first 10 books out of order, and then for the life of me, i couldn't get ahold of the other three in any kind of accessible format. They were always on a huge long waiting list at any library I tried. So finally i got sick of it and downloaded a torrent with all 13 in audio, and now i'm working on reading the last three.
I couldn't make it through the first book. I got up to a part when Count what's-his-name started abusing those poor kids, and I just couldn't take it anymore.
Hahaha, Yeah, pretty morbid. Olaf, wasn't it?
cala, what happens at the end?
i never did get round to getting to the end, i read the grim grotto and i think that was it.
oh, and i like the one where they go to thee carnival, think it's number 9
I think some of these people get maried and baddy Olaf gets his death. That's only from what I've heard.
I can get the book for anyone who wants it, or any of them.
*** spoiler warning ***
The End begins with the Baudelaire orphans fleeing the burning Hotel Denouement. After surviving a storm, they find themselves on a coastal shelf of an island inhabited by a mysterious group of people. They are first greeted by a little girl, Friday. Count Olaf, who had previously proclaimed himself king of Olaf-Land, threatens the girl with a harpoon gun. Friday is unfazed; she refuses Olaf permission to land on the island, but invites the Baudelaires onto the island. Along the way, she describes what the islanders do with their time--all year long, they build an outrigger on the coastal shelf, and once a year the water rises high enough to submerge the shelf and launch the outrigger. This is known as Decision Day, when anyone who wishes can board the ship, bite a bitter apple, spit it back out, and sail away. The island facilitator, Ishmael, introduces the Baudelaires to the strange island customs. Also, Ishmael has the islanders (most named after famous literary or historical castaways) introduce themselves to the Baudelaires.
Although Ishmael always tells the islanders "I won't force you", it soon becomes apparent that his decisions go largely unquestioned and his suggestions are obeyed like orders. After the Baudelaires introduce themselves, Ishmael toasts the "Baudelaire orphans" (despite their not having mentioned their lost parents) with the coconut cordial which everybody carries, but which the orphans themselves dislike.
After another storm, more objects wash up including a giant pile of books tied together in the shape of a cube, an unconscious and pregnant Kit Snicket, and the Incredibly Deadly Viper from Uncle Monty's collection. The island people arrive and Count Olaf tries to fool them with a bad Kit Snicket disguise (with the diving-helmet containing the Medusoid Mycelium tucked under his dress as his supposed baby). Strangely, the islanders immediately see through Olaf's flimsy disguise and cage him. They then debate whether the orphans should be expelled from the colony when they discover that the Baudelaires are carrying "contraband" items. Ishmael decides that the children, Kit, and Olaf should all be abandoned unless they agree to abide by the colony's rules. After everyone leaves, Olaf tries to tempt the children to let him out of the cage by promising to explain the many mysteries and secrets which they have been surrounded by since The Bad Beginning, but they ignore him.
That night, two of the islanders Erewhon and Finn sneak out to feed the children and ask them a favor. A group of discontented colonists are planning a mutiny against Ishmael in the morning, and they ask the Baudelaires to go over to the arboretum where all the contraband items are collected, and find or make some weapons to use in the rebellion. Further, the mutineers refuse to help Kit unless the Baudelaires help them. The children agree, and set off for the arboretum. The orphans discover a well-appointed living area, before they are in turn discovered by Ishmael. They learn that their parents were once the island's leaders and were responsible for many improvements meant to make island-life easier and more pleasant, but they were eventually overthrown by Ishmael, who believed that a strictly-enforced simple life (combined with the opiate of the coconut cordial) was the best way to avoid conflict. The Baudelaires find an enormous history of the island, entitled A Series of Unfortunate Events, written by the many different people who had served as island leaders, including their parents and Ishmael. Ishmael also makes references to many other people, including a girl with only one eyebrow and ear (the mother of Isaac Anwhistle) and Gregor Anwhistle. The girl with one eyebrow and ear is also mentioned in The Wide Window when Aunt Josephine says something like " A lot of people have that one distinguishing feature ( the one eyebrow ). My grandmother had not only one eyebrow, but also one ear. ".
The Baudelaires and Ishmael go back to the other side of the island, where the mutiny is already underway. Count Olaf returns, still in disguise. After a brief exchange, Ishmael harpoons Olaf in the stomach, which shatters the helmet containing the Medusoid Mycelium, infecting the island's entire population at once. With Count Olaf slowly bleeding to death, the Baudelaires run back to the arboretum to try to find some horseradish to cure everyone. They learn that their parents had hybridized an apple tree with horseradish, allowing the fruit to cure the effects of the Medusoid Mycelium. The Incredibly Deadly Viper offers them an apple. After sharing the apple and curing themselves, they then gather more apples for the island's inhabitants, only to discover that the island people have abandoned the mutiny and boarded their outrigger canoe, ready to set sail. Ishmael refuses to allow the apples on-board, though it is clear that he himself has already eaten one to cure himself, and the boat sails away to a horseradish factory to save everyone (It is hinted though, that one apple might have been sneaked on board by the Incredibly Deadly Viper to tide them over until they reach the factory).
Kit tells the Baudelaires the fate of the Quiglys, Hector, Phil, Captain Widdershins, and his two stepchildren Fernald and Fiona. After reuniting on Hector's float, they are attacked by trained eagles, who pop the balloons supporting the float and send them hurtling back to the ruins of the Queequeg. There, they are taken by the mysterious object shaped like a question mark (called "The Great Unknown" by Kit Snicket). In turn, the Baudelaires confess their own crimes committed at the Hotel Denouement. At this point, Kit is about to go into labour. She seems to be dying of the fungus, but cannot eat the bitter apple due to the hybrid's unhealthy effects on unborn babies. She is still trapped on top of the cube of books (her Vaporetto (boat) of Favorite Detritus) but when the critically-injured and fungus-choked Olaf hears that she is still alive, he takes a bite of an apple and manages to get her safely down onto the beach, giving her a single soft kiss as he lays her on the sand and collapses, still conscious, beside her. Kit recites the poem "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" by Francis William Bourdillon, answered by Olaf reciting the final stanza of Philip Larkin's "This Be The Verse" . He then dies. The Baudelaires help Kit give birth to a baby girl. She then dies due to the Medusoid Mycelium, after asking the orphans to name the baby after their mother. Here The End ends with the Baudelaires becoming Kit's child's adopted parents, and became the only ones in the island. They bury Kit and Olaf, apparently next to each other, somewhere on the island.
The book ends with an epilogue in the form of a short book titled "Chapter Fourteen" that begins one year later. Kit's baby and the Baudelaires sail away from the island on the boat they arrived to the island on to immerse themselves in the world once more. As they board the ship, Kit's baby says the boat's actual name, "Beatrice", which is also her own name.
In the last illustration of the book, the ocean's wave contains an outline of a question mark, or The Unknown.
wow cala, that's great. :)
it would be great if you could actually get me that, so i can read the whole thing for myself, and if possible, the whole series?
i only have them on audio tape and it would be great to have some kind of electronic version
Dan, I'll get them and zip them and send them. anyone else let me know here or PM me.
Wow... glad I didn't read that. Thanks for the summary, though.
thanks cala. :). i'll be looking out for them.
i don't actually read much, and from the books i've read, that series has to be the best
ok, I have all books now. Either post your name here or PM me with contact details and I'll throw these your way.
Yes, I am more of a serious reader, here. However, if you enjoy a good tragedy, I suppose it would be for you.
But then if we go tragedy here, I'd go for Shakespeare.
count olaf... love him!. my best ones are when he pretends to be the gym teacher, when he sets fire to the carnival, when he made aunt josophine write the note and when he killed uncle monty.
fave person in the story is sunny, she's just soooo cuuuute!.
i love mister po, if it wern't for him, who knows where the children would have been. probably stuck on the beach