File Under: 13 Suspicious Incidents - tie in book to All the Wrong Questions, goes best between books two and three.The Beatrice Letters - written before book thirteen, but I would recommend not reading it until afterwards.13 Shocking Secrets you'll wish you never knew about Lemony Snicket - Pamphlet written to promote the 13th book, not much in it.Mysterious Messages Concerning the Dismal Dinner - series of four pamphlets written to promote the movie, could be read anywhere after book 1.Lemony Snicket: An Unauthorized Autobiography - Published between books nine and ten, but only references stuff from the first six books.All the Wrong Questions - Newer series, 4 books, Lemony Snicket gives an account of his own life when he was 13.A Series of Unfortunate Events - Original series, 13 books, Lemony Snicket chronicling the lives of the Baudelaires.There are also several tie in books and pamphlets. Sunny is rather a one-note character at this point, but I guess that's inevitable.There are two main series, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and All the Wrong Questions. The difference between him and Violet is not a difference between arts and sciences, but rather between pure and applied - he learns, she creates. It's particularly notable that Klaus is a polymath - he knows both the difference between crocodiles and alligators, and who killed Julius Caesar. The other thing that struck me in the early chapters was the way the character of the orphans was established by what they were doing at Briny Beach. 'Mrs Poe purchased clothing for the orphans that was in grotesque colours'. ATWQ rather suggests that his family was wealthy quite recently, if he attended Wade Academy. Klaus's surprise that he is also an actor suggests that 'count' is seen as a job, or at least a position with responsibilities - as 'duchess' clearly is in Winnipeg - though in fact even in Britain, where peers still have some constitutional functions, many of them have other jobs, and indeed I know of at least two who are actors.

It never becomes clear just what is meant by Olaf being a count. I think what we see in the trailer is fair - it is indeed quite large, but not enormous (clearly not on the scale of 6687 Dark Avenue). 3 we are told 'Count Olaf's house was quite large'. 2 I would have guessed it was quite small - it has just two windows (facing the street, presumably), and the tower is said to be above the windows, implying they are quite close together - however in Ch. Regarding Olaf's house, from the description in Ch. And Olaf's fondness for wine is indeed striking - I think it comes back in one of the later books, but most of the time it fades away. Yes, the grittiness is noticeable - though of course there are elements of absurdity: the marriage plot is rather weird when you think about it.

Asoue the bad beginning