[ SECRET POST #2351 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2350 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm honestly curious about this. What about these books appealed to you as a child or even now as a teen or adult?

I was already adult when they were published and I got curious about them so I tried reading them. I didn't like them at all or even could see how they appealed to kids; Olaf was skeevy as all get out, it seemed like the author told instead of showed most of the time (iirc), etc.

No offense is meant if you do like them; I just want to understand what the appeal is for those who do like them since they're so popular. I don't like the Twilight books, but I do understand why some people love them so (hell, I loved skeevy 80's romance novels at one time).

OP

[(Anonymous)]

To answer your question, the books make me laugh out loud. I totally dig the dark humor and the outrageous narration. When I was a kid, I didn't like reading the nice books, I liked reading Roald Dahl and Goosebumps and Lemony Snicket. These books, as well as teaching me a lot of vocabulary, were very entertaining.

I might despise the conclusion of it, (I don't think Handler planned things out very well,) but to me, it was a creepy bunch of books that made me laugh and taught me things. Also I always liked books which had villains that were real people over unstoppable supernatural beings. Olaf was a bad guy who seemed like he'd exist in real life, which made him even scarier.

In short, I understand why people wouldn't like the books (repetitive, confusing near the end, explaining a lot of the plot rather then showing it,) but the macabre nature of the books made me love them.

[(Anonymous)]

I thought they were well-written and I loved the black humor and literary/historical references.

[quietdragon]

They're just plain funny and I love black comedy.

The showing, not telling is done in such an elaborately overdone and facetious way that it made it funnier to me.

At least, that's why I liked them... also, Violet is a pretty awesome female lead for the genre and also, I just really, really love sibling relationships in fiction and I always think the world could use more stories that focus on sibs.