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Lemony Snicket's "The End" touches on themes far too complex for children and with a maturity and subtlety lost on most adult philisophical writers.

>> No.4721376

why not extol the virtues harry potter too

>> No.4721378

>>4721376
Because Harry Potter is just a story. It doesn't have anything to say about the real world, other than "the nazis were bad" and that's hardly a revelation.

>> No.4721394

>>4721378
series is barely a story. it doesn't even have that to say. sad that /lit/ is enamored by such garbage these days

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>>4721374
Such as?

>> No.4721425

>>4721378
I had never heard that comparison before. I can't believe I did not even consider that. J.K. Rowling is so deep.

>> No.4721578

>>4721374
Seconded. Shame so many people missed the point and just demanded answers to everything, even though the message was the world and people realistically are too complex for everyone to know everything and part of growing up is learning to accept that.

I understand kids complaining but for 'young adults' this should be an easy concept to grasp. Personally I think it was a brave move.

>> No.4721610

>>4721425
I was saying JK Rowling isn't deep. It's fun that you're so arrogant while also misunderstanding.

>> No.4721631

>>4721610
It's fun that you thought my comment was directed at you. It is also fun that you assumed that I had not in fact considered that before (I was being sincere up until saying Rowling is deep).

It's fun.

>> No.4721643

>>4721631
welp this guy lost

>> No.4721646

>>4721643
welp so did you

>> No.4721651

>>4721643
What? By pointing out that I was not misunderstanding or being arrogant and that in fact he was?

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>>4721631
>it's fun that you thought my comment was directed at you, the person I replied to

Go back to your Game of Thrones thread, autismo.

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>mfw Count Olaf died
Hurt like a punch to the gut even though he was a rotten bastard.

When did the last book come out, 10 years ago?

>> No.4722331

>>4722186
"You think I burnt down your home? Is that what you really believe?"

I loved how the children didn't celebrate at all or show any pleasure at his death. They just visit his grave and don't say anything.

A great series which I feel like too few people have read.

>> No.4722352

easily top-tier kids/young adult book

>> No.4722397

>>4722331
That fucking line, that fucking line

>> No.4722757

Sugar Bowl

>> No.4724203

So there are 13 books in this series?

I have the first 8 available to read. How long are they? Would you recommend reading them one after the other?

>> No.4724242

>>4724203
You could read all 13 in one weekend. They get progressively longer as it goes on with the last one coming in at like 250 pages.

Read them all. It's definitely worth it.

>> No.4724279

>>4724203
Just so you know, the first three books are pretty babby modo. It was only when writing the fourth that he was guaranteed that the rest would be published, allowing him to focus more on the long term characters and themes, rather than the short term situations of the first books.

>> No.4724498

>>4724279
>the first three books are pretty babby modo.
Define babby modo? (Baby mode?)

If the first three books are short reads I shouldn't be too concerned.