"That's what I'm trying to find out," she replies. He also meets a girl, about his age, who writes and reports for a newspaper that's gone out of business because of the lack of ink. A bowl of peanuts is "either salty or dusty."Īlong the way, Snicket confides: "Knowing that something is wrong and doing it anyway happens very often in life, and I doubt if I will ever know why." It's for young readers who appreciate word play. With illustrations by the cartoonist known only as Seth, it's complex and confusing - but that's the point. It's noir for tweens who embrace and even enjoy discovering that the world isn't as simple and pure as grownups have led on.
Snicket ends up in a strange seaside town (with no sea), assigned to recover a black statue of a mythical beast, which may or may not have been stolen. Vocabulary lessons were never so much fun. It's not only repetitive, it's redundant, and people here have heard it before." "You already said you were sorry," the chaperone shoots back. Snicket replies, "I'm contrite, a word which here means - " His chaperone defines apprentice as "a word which here means 'a person who works under me and does absolutely everything I tell him to do.'" In the new mystery, Snicket recalls when he was almost 13 and started an apprenticeship with an enigmatic secret society. It's also a prequel to Handler's best-selling A Series of Unfortunate Events, which featured Snicket as adult narrator and a character.
It's the first book in a new four-volume series by Lemony Snicket, pen name and alter ego of Daniel Handler. If the great hard-boiled detective novelists Dashiell Hammett ( The Maltese Falcon) and Raymond Chandler ( The Long Goodbye) had a dry sense of humor and wrote for kids, the results might be something like Who Could That Be at This Hour?
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