{"id":472,"date":"2006-12-14T23:04:05","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T04:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=472"},"modified":"2024-02-23T21:17:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:17:23","slug":"snicket_10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2006\/12\/snicket_10\/","title":{"rendered":"Snicket, Lemony: (10) The Slippery Slope<\/cite> (audio)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think I may do a single run at finishing A Series of Unfortunate Events, now that the last book’s out and I’m in the mood for some frivolity. At any rate, I just finished listening to the tenth book, The Slippery Slope<\/cite><\/strong>, as read by Tim Curry, and went straight into the next one.<\/p>\n

The theme of The Slippery Slope<\/cite> is aptly described in its opening paragraph:<\/p>\n

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A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled,” describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn’t hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is now dead.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Baudelaire orphans find themselves on various roads less traveled in the Mortmain Mountains, where they meet a number of unexpected characters, some new (and occasionally surprising, at least to me) and some old; face serious (though obvious) moral dilemmas; experience at least two landmark events in their lives; and learn a bit about the mysteries surrouding them. We the readers learn more [*], which is perhaps unfair, but that’s what happens to the Baudelaire siblings.<\/p>\n

I forget how many days prior books have taken, but this one took only three by my count, and it introduces a hard deadline just five days away. The relationship of that deadline to the overall series’ progression remains to be determined. I haven’t heard howls of indignation from anyone who has finished the series, though, so I’m guessing that however we get there, the destination won’t suck. (Remember: only cake-sniffers spoil people for things they haven’t read yet!)<\/p>\n

[*] Specifically, it seems (ROT13’ed for spoilers): gurve sngure vf hadhrfgvbanoyl qrnq; gurve zbgure znl or yrzbal favpxrg’f fvfgre, naq vs fb, fur’f nyvir; naq gel nf gurl jvyy, gurl jba’g svaq gur fhtne objy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think I may do a single run at finishing A Series of Unfortunate Events, now that the last book’s out and I’m in the mood for some frivolity. At any rate, I just finished listening to the tenth book, The Slippery Slope, as read by Tim Curry, and went straight into the next one. … <\/p>\n

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