YOU CAN ALL RELAX, THE LAST LEMONY SNICKET IS OUT TODAY!!!

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It's called 'the end' and my ds will faint with joy when I present him with it! (if I can find one here in the sticks)

really? Am I the only one who is excited about this?

I'm excited but mine didn't arrive today!

I have it, my ds is delighted and will read it tonight in bed!!!

I bought it for DS on Sunday. Books etc had run out, and Waterstones had it hidden at the back in the children's section with the other Lemony Snikett books - which is strange as it is supposed to be the biggest kids book publication this year.

DS had finished it by the time he returned from school on Monday.

DD and I both read it this weekend - I really liked it but still lots of questions left unanswered. I wonder what he plans to do next?

We got DS's copy in TESCO last week

Don't say thers is still questions left that'll drive me mad!
(if my book ever arrives )

Can I just ask all Lemony Snicket fans what age your children are? DS1 is 7 and enjoyed the film, just wonder whether he could cope with books.

DD1 is 11 and has read them since the first one came out. DD2 who is 9 can't really get on with them - they are quite "wordy" and have quite sophisticated humour, which tbh she's not really getting just yet.

A series for slightly younger children, in a similar vein (ie: beautiful colours and pics and quite an old fashioned feel), is "The Spiderwick Chronicles" - maybe he could read these and then move onto the Snickets?

Thanks janeite, I'll have a look at The Spiderwick Chronicles.

DS has read his
I got mine from TEscos

best thing was I got him to clean the car in and out and tidy his room before he could get his hands on it

used the copy i bought as a weapon to make dd1 tell me what a fab mother she has (makes change from what she mutters about me under her breath usually ).

Got in the spirit of things and left her a note in the kitchen along the lines of "Don't look on your bookshelf as I am sure you will be able to find something far less unfortunate to do." type of thing. Took her a few momants for the penny to drop then she legged it to her room. Bless. She's 11.

Mrs Spoon, I started reading them to DD when she was 7. She got bored in the 4th/5th book, and we have never gone back to them. IMO there is a lot of repetition and not really a great deal of action.

DS (mentioned below) is 12 and loves them.

I read it yesterday, it does seem a bit unfinished as there is still unanswered questions and does seem to be stranger than the others or isit just me?