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Books / Re: JK vs Lemony
« on: January 21, 2006, 12:53:21 PM »
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Has anyone got a favourite moment from these series?
Has anyone got a favourite moment from these series?
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Books / bURe: JK vs Lemony
« on: January 21, 2006, 12:52:17 PM »
But Voldemort isn't scared of Ron and Hermione. And most questions should be answered in the last book.
The Quagmires are more fortunate because they escaped and they found one of the people they had lost. I am sticking to my guns!
The Quagmires are more fortunate because they escaped and they found one of the people they had lost. I am sticking to my guns!
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Books / Re: JK vs Lemony
« on: January 21, 2006, 06:31:36 AM »
JK isn't 'losing touch' in my opinion. She conveys comedy through characters rather than narrative (LS uses the latter), and she is trying to build up to the final book (e.g killing of characters). It has always been thought that it would be Voldemort vs Harry in the end, and therefore Dumbledore would have to die in order to make this possible. Dumbledore would have stood in the way of the inevitable one-on-one.
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Books / Re: JK vs Lemony
« on: January 21, 2006, 06:22:38 AM »
Only die-hard Dumbedore fans will honestly care, when it comes down to it. And Sirius was never a much-loved character. Also, if it gets all over the media when an HP character dies, that must mean that the books are more important to people. Not to mention that the LS books are all about misery, and when death happens so often, nobody thinks of it as front-page stuff.
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Movies and TV / Re: What happened to...?
« on: January 21, 2006, 05:14:36 AM »
la regle rouge est marrant!
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Books / Re: ***Spoiler*** Lemony Snicket
« on: January 21, 2006, 04:42:20 AM »
I think the passages were to escape the fires set by the bad side of the schism. Lemony wouldn't be their father because he is dead, and also because he and Beatrice never married; she ran away with someone else.
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Books / Re: ***Spoiler*** Lemony Snicket
« on: January 20, 2006, 02:19:45 PM »
who are you, dankezman; are you German?
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Books / Noughts and Crosses
« on: January 20, 2006, 08:31:59 AM »
Has anyone read this trilogy on racial equality? I enjoyed the first one the most, but the entire series was both funny, sad and interesting. It was written by Malorie Blackman
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Books / Re: ***Spoiler*** Lemony Snicket
« on: January 20, 2006, 08:29:52 AM »
Book 10:-
In Lemony's letter to Kit, He refers to Kit making two suggestions; the second of which is a salad with a range of ingredients, which the Baudelaire mother used at a dinner party (so it says later in the book).
In Lemony's letter to Kit, He refers to Kit making two suggestions; the second of which is a salad with a range of ingredients, which the Baudelaire mother used at a dinner party (so it says later in the book).
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Books / Re: JK vs Lemony
« on: January 19, 2006, 02:55:00 PM »Quote
I didn't mean to get grumpy about replies...Sorry!
I agree with both of you; the series are dark, but not too dark. Harry Potter seems to get darker and darker, but LS is always the same - more humorous than the author implies. And I also agree that the books in the LS series follow the same pattern, and seem to be aiming for a higher age range towards the end of the series.
Speaking of funny extracts, I like the part in LS where the author "gives Violet privacy" on the mountain with Quigley. Ha ha ha
Book 10
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Books / Re: ***Spoiler*** Lemony Snicket
« on: January 19, 2006, 02:43:18 PM »
Another one, Chimera:
Baudelaire's mother made Kit and Lemony's salad thing. Lemony would probably tell Beatrice this sort of thing, considering the fact that he is random and helpful (LOL). It goes with your Beatrice=Mother theory.
Baudelaire's mother made Kit and Lemony's salad thing. Lemony would probably tell Beatrice this sort of thing, considering the fact that he is random and helpful (LOL). It goes with your Beatrice=Mother theory.
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Books / Re: CHERUB
« on: January 19, 2006, 02:18:36 PM »Quote
No, I haven't read it. I haven't even heard of it. Is it any good? Sounds a bit like Alias for kids.
I'd probably like it. I love spy books because I always wanted to be a spy when I was younger and be all clever and sneaky and totally kick-butt--until I had the realization that it'd be hard to have a family if I was running off to save the world, and that they'd be in danger all the time as well. So, I decided to go into English and writing/editing/teaching instead. Somewhat safer, though probably just as insane.
Ha ha ha.
I'm sure it is; all my English teachers were!!!
Yes they are good. The first one's called "The Recruit", and they're by Robert Muchamore. I used to want to be a spy, and my sister did, but we've realised that it's a rocky path full of deception and difficulties. Possibly similar to teaching?...
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Books / Re: JK vs Lemony
« on: January 19, 2006, 02:14:24 PM »
I didn't mean to get grumpy about replies...Sorry!
I agree with both of you; the series are dark, but not too dark. Harry Potter seems to get darker and darker, but LS is always the same - more humorous than the author implies. And I also agree that the books in the LS series follow the same pattern, and seem to be aiming for a higher age range towards the end of the series.
Speaking of funny extracts, I like the part in LS where the author "gives Violet privacy" on the mountain with Quigley. Ha ha ha
I agree with both of you; the series are dark, but not too dark. Harry Potter seems to get darker and darker, but LS is always the same - more humorous than the author implies. And I also agree that the books in the LS series follow the same pattern, and seem to be aiming for a higher age range towards the end of the series.
Speaking of funny extracts, I like the part in LS where the author "gives Violet privacy" on the mountain with Quigley. Ha ha ha