- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Egmont Books Ltd; 1st edition (1 Aug 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1405200634
- ISBN-13: 978-1405200639
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 13.4 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography is bizarre, abstruse ("a word which here means 'cryptic'"), and truly entertaining. Would you expect anything less from the mystery man behind A Series of Unfortunate Events (The Bad Beginning, The Ersatz Elevator and so on.)? Virtually every detail of the volume has Snicket's indelible mark, from the book jacket to the copyright page text to the intentionally blurry and bewildering black-and-white photographs appearing throughout. An apparently false obituary for Lemony Snicket sets the stage for what turns into a series of mind-boggling bundles of coded information passed from hand to hand, gleaned from newspapers blowing through streets, pages from a journal addressed to "Dear Dairy", blueprints of ships, minutes from secret meetings, and a lot of edited and disputed commentary. The question is, do we finally discover the meaning of VFD? You know you're not going to get a straight answer. But any fan of Snicket will have a lot of fun trying. (ages 9 and older) --Emilie Coulter, Amazon.com
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Finally, the definitive - and only - book for anyone interested in learning more about the alarmingly elusive author. Here is a collection of evidence - writings, annotated photographs, mysterious diagrams, and several disorientating maps, accompanied by captions, an introduction, and an extensive index. Together, these pieces will shed light on a life that until now has been unfortunately shrouded in darkness, and will finally answer the questions on everyone's mind: what do we really know about Lemony Snicket? And why is he so interested in the lives of the Baudelaire orphans?
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Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the purportedly true chronicles of the Baudelaire children, was reported dead today by anonymous and possibly unreliable sources. Read the first page
Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
Lemony Snicket, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events, the purportedly true chronicles of the Baudelaire children, was reported dead today by anonymous and possibly unreliable sources. Read the first page
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is for everyone who has read the Series of Unfortunate Events with a notebook and pencil deep into the night, juggling anagrams, noting references and deciphering the many embedded clues for would-be members of VFD. If you've read Dante in the hope of discovering more about Beatrice's identity, if you've deciphered all those anagrams in the Hostile Hospital, if you have a convincing theory about the sugar bowl secret: this is the book for you.
Lemony Snicket has created a cult following, and for those of you (those of us) who aren't content to see the books as a tale of high-jinks by the beleaguered Baudelaires, this is essential reading to help you get further into the next level. Filled with enigmatic clues and red herrings and stamped with Snicket's characteristic wry sense of humour, this takes the shape of a scrapbook of photographs, family trees, letters, transcripts of conversation, book lists, a song or two, newspaper cuttings, the secret documentation of a Very Secret Organisation and other intriguing snippets. Just don't expect clear answers, whatever you do: you're far more likely to come across new questions. Hone your observational and note-making skills and buy this book for an enjoyable and absorbing read.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The title is itself enigmatic _a word which here means: the title is either a witty joke, a straight forward fact that is easy to understand, a disguised straight forward fact that is not that easy to understand or is in code.
If you have read the unfortunate series by this author, which I strongly recommend, you'll find that the Un-authorised Autobiography is more of a book about the books than it is a book about the author. Maybe, if you happen to be an unfortunate fan, you will find in this book an amalgam of clues to successfully solve the enigmas of the unhappy series. I myself, have been unable to solve the sugar bowls mystery code, but I am feverishly working on it. There are some handy clues concerning the code in this book. As the series are not yet published in full _at the moment, 11 out of 13 books have been published_ I sincerely hope the whole thing sums up to something meaningful, thus to a happy ending... although this is unlikely.
The content of this book is amazingly uneasy to read. Which in this case is a good thing. From the unusual front cover down to the documents that illustrate the orphans' sad story and Snickets participation in it, the autobiography is just as obscure and puzzling as the rest of the series. Every chapter has been carefully re-titled by the author and is documented with pictures and scans of the actual files connected to the Baudelaire orphans and the sneaky organization: V.F.D.
Do not delude yourself by thinking you'll get a clear picture of the author, or his life, or about the outcome of his books. Snicket made sure the enigmatic aura of his works remains even on this book. I am afraid you'll have to cleverly make your way through the hints and clues just as Klaus usually does. Still, if you lose patience you could also invent something with them or gnaw the pages away.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
If your looking for answers to unanswered questions then this is not the book for you. However, the autobiography is truly amazing and it is very well written. If you are a fan of Lemony Snicket then this is a MUST READ. You will not be dissapointed if you get the book, but do not except anything lower than the best from Lemony Snicket.He tends to trail off the point but that is what makes his wrting so good.He is a mystery writer and keeps his readers in suspense.The Autobiography is very good.
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Utterly Addictive.
The hardcover edition of this book is my personal favourite, as it opens in a cupboard-like fashion which is great as it really protects the pages. Read more
Published on 2 Oct 2008 by J. Grant
The most random and weird book I have ever read
Odd, yes, but intelligent and clouded with mystery. Who is Lemony Snicket? Is Daniel Handler (The author) making this up or is it factual? Read more
Published on 23 Aug 2004
A must-read after the Ersatz Elevator
This is brilliant. Any Lemony Snicket devotee will be lost without it. It has to be read after the Ersatz Elevator, as things like VFD and the identity of Beatrice and Esme, as... Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2002 by marthiemoo
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This book was everything I was expecting, right down to its crazy 'door' front cover. It was good, with lots of special bits for the reader (background, hints of Lemony's... Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2002 by Caillie
Finally.
Finally we learn more about the man of mistery- and misery- himself. Yep, "LEMONY SNICKET". Read more
Published on 6 Aug 2002
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