Dastardly DJ
Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 4:05 pm
I'd say that Schlop has gotten pretty fleshed out over the years, too!
And I am also pleased to report that Book the Seventh was REALLY GOOD. Snicket is doing a better job of making the books into mysteries and keeping Count Olaf out of the way until near the end. Since we, the readers, always recognize Olaf, unlike every other adult in the books, it's less annoying to have less Olaf in the story. Anysneech, high praise (and paws) for Book the Seventh.
Here are some good lines:
After even the first few steps, the disadvantages of the bus ride seemed like small potatoes. "Small potatoes" is a phrase which has nothing to do with root vegetables that happen to be tiny in size. Instead, it refers to the change in one's feelings for something when it is compared with something else. If you were walking in the rain, for instance, you might be worried about getting wet, but if you turned the corner and saw a pack of vicious dogs, getting wet would suddenly become small potatoes next to getting chased down an alley and barked at, or possibly eaten.
Lee is pretty freaked out about reading Book the Eighth though because it's called "The Hostile Hospital" and Lee already thinks Hospitals are plenty hostile without reading a book about it. I'm not sure what to do- she really doesn't want to read it!In this large and fierce world of ours, there are many, many unpleasant places to be. You can be in a river swarming with angry electric eels, or in a supermarket filled with vicious long-distance runners. You can be in a hotel that has no room service, or you can be lost in a forest that is slowly filling up with water. You can be in a hornet's nest or in an abandoned airport or in the office of a pediatric surgeon, but one of the most unpleasant things that can happen is to find yourself in a quandary, which is where the Baudelaire orphans found themselves that night.