Rigth now, I’m kinda of obsess with Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. I discovered these books by watching the 2004 motion picture Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, with Jude Law as the narrator, Jim Carrey as Count Olaf and Daniel Handler as Lemony Snicket (wich is pretty ironic, because Lemony Snicket doesn’t exists, he’s just a character created by Daniel Handler himself). We can find in those books the really, really, really sad story of the Boudelaire children, who after the first book become the Boudelaire orphans.
Anyway, I wanted to read the books becasue someone told me that the movie has cut some of the parts in the books. I really hate that, but the movie was actually good. So, I watched the movie in 2004 and I expended 5 years trying to find the books so I could read them. I never find them. Apparently, in this country, the editorial was bought by the government and any library wanted to sell the books produced by the government (you can imagine wich tipe of president we have here).
So, in 2009, I was in a library buying school materials and when I was losing my time walking across the bookshelves, I found the second of the 13-books saga, “The Reptile Room”. I bought it immediately. I spent that year trying to find the other 12 books, but I couldn’t find neither the first nor the other eleven books.
Recently, I found a way I can read them. Some people may think it’s an irracional, impossible and maybe ilegal way, but I’m happy that I can enjoy the sad stories of the Boudelaire orphans. Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler is an amazing writter, and this saga is really great. I hope anybody could read it at any time in their lives. Anyway, by the time I’m writing this post I’d read the firts 4 books and I’m going to make posts about the ones that I already read and the ones that I’m going to read very soon.
The first book, The Bad Beginning; or Orphans! will be commented soon.
With all due respect,
M.J.
