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Posted By: Dark Knight Oct 22, 2004 - 03:30 pm

I was thinking, are these books anygood?, are they for kids only....????, oh and there is a movie coming out did you think it will be any good.....????

Posted By: Magus Oct 27, 2004 - 03:11 pm

I haven't read any of them. But apparently I hear that they're quite good, critics seem to back this mindset. I might have to take a look at them myself.

Posted By: deejay Nov 09, 2004 - 12:53 pm

Yeah, the books were good at first, but each book is basically the same as the last; Kids finnaly get a break through, bad guy finds them, kids get the raw end of the deal for the rest of the book, bad guy wins and gets away unitl the next book where it starts all over again. The movie might be good, becuase i did like the first book, but i think the author needs to know where to stop.

Posted By: Magus Nov 11, 2004 - 06:05 am

I think I heard that he ended the series, bt I'm not sure where or how credable it really was.

Posted By: Pat0214 Dec 22, 2004 - 09:19 am

Really not the best series for younger reader I've read. Harry Potter is much better that goes without saying and here's a few more I've read that you guys might actualy enjoy even if there are for younger readers....

The Redwall series by Brian Jacques, surprising there is no topic on that series here.
Artemis Fowl

Posted By: Magus Dec 22, 2004 - 09:34 am

I began reading that series a long while back. My sister read it all first and told me to start, not with Redwall but, with Martin the Warrior. I stuck with it for over half the book but something else, I forget what, drew my attention away from it.

Posted By: Sindatur Dec 22, 2004 - 09:55 am

Diane Duane's Young Wizards Series seems to be pretty good. I've read the first two, and have enjoyed them.

Posted By: Iznardi Dec 22, 2004 - 10:23 am

No fantasy, but you can also trust "The Shakespeare Stealer, Shakespeare's Scribe, and Shakespeare's Spy" by Gary Blackwood, for the 12 to 14 set who can deal with historical series.

Peter and the Star Catchers, the new prequel to Peter Pan by Dave Barry is also pretty good and makes a nice gift in hardcover.

Posted By: Bmat Dec 22, 2004 - 11:00 am

Should this topic be moved to Books for Young People?

Posted By: ~*FallenFaerie*~ Dec 22, 2004 - 05:43 pm

the series of unfortunate evnts are awesome and i think they're way more appropriate for older kids than your average 12 year old, they've got some major literary/historical refrences (like vice principal nero who gave a six hour violin concert, this refers to nero, who fiddled while rome burned) i just reread the earlier ones, and i picked up on a bunch of things i missed when i first read them in middle school. lemony snicket (whose real name is daniel handler) plans to end the series with book 13(he's got 11 out now) and every book has 13 chapters in it, i thought this was a cute concept.i saw the movie earlier this week, it was really good, and completely true to the books (as true as it could have been, considering they crammed 3 books into 2 hours)but sometimes it seemed like a vehicle for jim carey. other than that it was great. plus jude law is in it. i love jude law.

Posted By: Magus Dec 22, 2004 - 06:33 pm

My dad works with a guy who knows good ol' danny.

Posted By: woody000 Dec 29, 2004 - 12:29 am

Well I was very impressed with the film. I'll have to read the book. Though my problem is that I like to read books quite slowly and take it all in properly. So I've now got a long list of books I've been meaning to read. *sigh* lol

Posted By: Magus Dec 29, 2004 - 05:32 am

I had a really weird dream about the movie last night. I don't really remeber what it was, only that it was really strange.

Posted By: Adelpha Salatonga Feb 06, 2005 - 04:50 pm

Hey y'all I've got all 11 of the series of unfortunate events, and they're pretty good. I want to see the movie, though. How did you find out Lemony's real name is David Handler? And is he really being chased by the cops or what? Are the Baudelaires even real??? That's what I want to find out, kk?

bye bye see yall later

Posted By: Gypsy_girl Mar 16, 2005 - 05:27 am

I don't think that he's really being chased by the cops. Think about it this way: IF he was being chased by the cops, then they would have found him already. If we can find out that his real name is David Handler, and that his "alias"
is Lemony Snicket, then the cops probably could have found that out a LONG time ago. And then since they knew that, they could probably easily find him. So, if he was being chased by the cops, he would have been arrested/found/stopped/whatever-you-want-to-call-it.

As far as the books go, I think they're pretty good. I heard that he was planning to do 13 books in all (not including the un-authorized autobiography). The movie was good, and I liked it, but for book-to-movie accuracy, in my opinion, it was not good.

That's just my two cents though

Posted By: Bmat Mar 16, 2005 - 07:48 am

I liked the movie and have just bought several of the books used. I'm looking forward to reading them.

Posted By: Safire_slash Mar 17, 2005 - 08:19 am

I've read some of the books, and although they're not bad if i want to spend an hour reading something mindless, they are very obviously meant for young readers- if only the fact the story is interuppted regulaly to define a word- incredibly irritating. The refernces that are referred to i think is the authors attempt to increase adult interest, however the refernces are small, and most children would read them without a second though.