Lemony Snicket

[Kell]

I'm thinking of getting hold of the Lemony Snicket Series of Unfortunate Events books. Has anyone read them? Are they any good?

I'll freely admit, the main reason I'm attracted to them is I love the author's name!

[Inanna]

After seeing the film I have considered getting them, but haven't as of yet :wink:

[Maureen]

I love the author's name!

Me too!! and I love saying it. Go figure!

[Kell]

You know what? I had assumed, from the name, that the author was a womna, but it's a guy! And apparently it's pronounced le-MOAN-ie, rather than LEM-onn-ie. Imagnie my surprise!

[knitnurse]

Kell, did you see him on breakfast tv the other morning? Nothing like you would expect, and he was really flummoxing the presenters as he was a huge character :D

My daughter loves these books. Actually, she is nearly 10. I wonder if she would like to come on here and chat to Tiger :) She usually doesn't want to do anything that's MY idea :wink:

[Michelle]

She'd be very welcome - and if it's all a bit overwhelming, she can post here in the Young Person's section. :)

[Louiseog]

I've read Lemony Snicket and they are really good, clever and well written while not being patronising.

[Copper]

They're Great! I'm up to book nine and I just love them!

They keep you interested because the have a great sense of adventure and mystery!

I found some of the books more enjoyable than others though but I had to stick with them to find out what happened next!

[Tiger]

I've never actually read a Lemony Snicket book, although I have one from the library ready to be read.

[Sugar]

I read the first one, and I'm going to buck the trend. I really didn't enjoy the experience.

I actually found the style was incredibly patronising - particularly the use of long words with a definition in brackets afterwards (which means...).

Wild horses couldn't have dragged me to watch the film, and there is no way I would read another. There are too many other *good* books out there waiting for me!

I can appreciate that they are really popular and that they are developing vocabulary and that ever elusive love of reading in a previously hard to reach group, but they are certainly not for me.

[Louiseog]

I read the first one, and I'm going to buck the trend. I really didn't enjoy the experience.

I actually found the style was incredibly patronising - particularly the use of long words with a definition in brackets afterwards (which means...).

Wild horses couldn't have dragged me to watch the film, and there is no way I would read another. There are too many other *good* books out there waiting for me!

I can appreciate that they are really popular and that they are developing vocabulary and that ever elusive love of reading in a previously hard to reach group, but they are certainly not for me.
Think you've got a point, I read mine with 11 yesr old who hates reading and so the patronising bit actually helped him and made him laugh, kids quite like being sarcastic don't they?
Don't have the broad appeal of HP for example