Saturday January 06, 2007 The End
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It began with The Bad Beginning and it supposedly finishes with The End. And just like the advice of a good therapist after you've been in a torrid relationship, I was looking for closure. |
I should have taken heed of the words of Lemony Snicket right at the beginning and not read these books. Rather than buy this "last one", I requested it from the library back in the middle of December. I was 125th in line. Good, I thought. It'll be available around March 2008 and I can get on with other things in the meantime. I didn't count on the county library system having 77 copies of the book, and turning them around quickly. I picked my copy up yesterday afternoon.
I've just finished it and can only say that this book has done nothing to change my opinion of the series. I'm still sorely disappointed. There is an ending of sorts, but so so many unanswered questions. I'm deliberately not going to try to give anything away here. There might be some sorry pathetic masochistic individuals out there, who derive pleasure from these books. I'm not one of them. Maybe young readers 9-12 are more forgiving. Maybe they don't demand as much from an author as I do. If I was doing one of my recently read reviews and having to rate it, I'd give it one star because the illustrations are good (thank you Brett Helquist), and the author does appear capable of correctly spelling all the words and forming complete sentences.
If Mr. Snicket is thinking of writing any more of these unfortunate books, then I have a couple suggestions for the next title. You could call it The Capitalistic Crutch or maybe The Moronic Moneymaker.
I'll repeat what I asked when I blogged about the first book. I'm still curious.
To the parents out there who have children that have read these books; did they enjoy them? Were they avidly waiting the next book in the series with the same urgency as people do for the new Harry Potter books? How did they enjoy The End?
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