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when you least expect it.
"... With the Baudelaire orphans, it
was as if their grief were a very heavy
object that they each took turns car-
rying so that they would not all be
crying at once, but sometimes the
object was too heavy for one of them
to move without weeping. So Violet
and Sunny stood next to Klaus
reminding him that this was some-
thing they could all carry together
until at last they found a safe place to
lay it down."
Snicket never promises his readers a
happy ending.
In fact, the reader is warned from
the very beginning of The Bad
Beginning, "If you are interested in -
stories with happy endings, you
would be better off reading some
other book."
Seven-year-old Lily Morrison of
- Huntington Woods didn't heed the
warning. "I love these books," she
said. "They are funny and serious at
the same time."
Classmate and friend Hannah
Korelitz, 7, of Huntington Woods,
agrees. "I like how the author makes
the words sound so good in the
story," she says.
Aaron Hovey, 9, a fourth-grader
from West Bloomfield, just finished
The Hostile Hospital, the eighth book
in the series. "I love these books," he
says. "I like Violet best because she is
really intelligent."
West Bloomfield resident Eli
Brand, 8, has read all nine books so
far. "I read them before I go to bed,"
he says. "I really like Count Olaf. In
one story he dressed up as a pirate
with a wooden leg and Sunny [of the
four very sharp teeth] bit his leg and
it broke." Brand is eagerly awaiting
the final four books in the series.
As the Jewish News was unable to

catch up with elusive Mr. Snicket in
person, his representative, Daniel
Handler, also the author of two books
for adults, The Basic Eight and Watch
Your Mouth, has kindly stepped up to
the plate to answer some questions:
JN: Why are two of your three main
characters named for the major play-
ers in the von Bulow murder trial?
DH: The von Bulow case is a piece
of quasi-mythology, something like a
lie and something like a truth, involv-
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amounts of money. It seems like a
natural antecedent.

JN: What do you think of Harry
Potter?
DH:: I've only read the first Harry
Potter book, and found Mr. Potter to
be brave and articulate in the face of
adversity, traits I am trying to culti-
vate in myself.

JN: What is your response to those
who would ban your books?
DH: Dear, dear, you seem very upset.
Why don't you go home, draw your-
self a bath, pour yourself a jigger of
good cognac and read a book you
enjoy. In fact, why don't we all do
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JN: Will the Baudelaire orphans ever
live, if not happily ever after, at least
not so steeped in misery?
DH: The Baudelaire orphans have
quite a few moments of happiness —
these moments do, however, tend to
be dashed. According to people of my
acquaintance who are much older
than I, such dashing does not end
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