Friday, September 15, 2006

Current Events 9/15

At Wikipedia there is a preview article about a book being released this October 13th, The End by Lemony Snicket. The End is the last and the 13th in a Series of Unfortunate Events, a popular yet depressing series of children’s books. Under normal circumstances, I wouldn’t be writing about them, but I’ve been reading them since I was a child myself, and I’m dying to find out how it ends.
The author of this article is unknown and quite possibly at least ten different people so I can not call them bias in any way. Their details are accurate; I’ve researched the book since its announcement. The tone is very matter of fact, like most everything on Wikipedia, however there is no way to describe the series, let alone its last book, without an air of mysteriousness. They also bring in hints to its end, including the usual letter from the author on the back of every book in the series. The series is also stated to end the way it began, with the word Beatrice.
Overall our friends at Wikipedia know they’re doing. The article is precise and informal and never bias, even in the slightest. I salute the grand wiki.


Update (10/18/o6) : I finally read The End and it was as great as expected and then some. What was incredibly surprising was Snicket's constant refrences to ONIONS as a symbol and a theme thoughout the whole book (especially in the first five pages, where he writes about nothing else but onions). I had no prior knowledge of his respect for things with layers that make you cry (and it's not a layer cake with chocolate covered thumbtacks), so I am even more honored to bear the name Tom with Onions. I salute Lemony Snicket, with onions. sniff...

1 comment:

Paroune said...

Tom - This is a terrific blog!!! I enjoyed your Andy Rooney style of commentary of a topic you seem most familar. Outstanding insight into your excitement and motivation to read the book, it brought me back to my youth, and the anticipation of a good movie (Star Wars). Keep up this outstanding work.

Mr. A