Read the article here in the Daily Mail. The most wonderful and ironic quote from the article? Here it is (these sentences have made my day):
- The group was set up after its founder, Adrienne Small, read the first book in the series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket to her daughter. She said the books caused her daughter to take a more negative approach to life, which only got worse when she read all 13 books in the series.
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I bet that's the best compliment Daniel Handler has received about his books.
I know. Isn't it funny, Laura. I mean the series is called "A Series of Unfortunate Events." Shouldn't mom have known its endings were unfortunate?
We were laughing until there were tears in our eyes. Even my nine year old thought this was ridiculously funny.
Ah, but Tarka the Otter, anyone? I'm still blubbing...
The great thing about Lemony Snicket is that actually, the books all do have positive endings, cunningly disguised. The 'no happy endings' promise is a feint. It's a bit like Bush snr. attacking the Simpsons when in fact they are just about the best family role model out there...
LOL. Any chance the daughter grew into a teenager over the course of reading 13 books? That could explain the the "negative" outlook! Or sometimes mothers alone are enough to send daughters over the edge, slightly daft or not. :)
Oh dear gods above !!
The Daily Mail alone was enough to make me shudder ! Someone give that mother a brain, please ?!
That makes for a crap acronym. To say nothing of her cheering "happy endings" (which has a dual meaning, after all -- think of the children!)
Kelly.
I THOUGHT. YOU. WERE. JOKING.
No. Way.
Yeah, I'd like to ban happy endings. I'd like to abolish death as well, but some things are just not in my power.
Has this woman not yet figured that out!?!?!
This whole thing kind of makes me want to write a book with an unhappy ending, to see if it will get banned. Astounding!
Oh for crying out loud . . .
Love2Learn: I'm so happy I made your daughter laugh. Yay!
Nick: You should know to stay away from Otters. They're like dogs. Only in water.
Sara: If ONLY I could blame Snicket for my daughter's tween behavior. Wait a minute...maybe I could! Plus, we here in the States like suing. Think it would work?
Michele: I should have mentioned sources, it's true. But the piece is syndicated and was in the Norwich local paper too. (But, as you know, we book people in the States occasionally enjoy finding that this type of think happens in the U.K. sometimes as well.)
Kelly F: Quick! Cover their ears...
Tanita. Nope it's for real. I've seen the news alert come up for 3 different papers so far this morning. Almost makes you miss the States, doesn't it?
Jen: Do it!
Jules: I know...
That's too funny, Kelly. The books made her so miserable yet she had to read the entire series. One suspects that the daughter doesn't see the series in the same way as the mother...
Who volunteers to send the woman The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane? I mean, it ends happy.
One of their reps - Claire Hughes was on Jeremy Vine's BBC radio 2 show today. She herself upset a lot of kiddywinks listening (at 1.00pm, so they'd have been mostly preschoolers and tots) by glibly mentioning that Father Christmas wasn't real! Well done Mrs. Hughes :P
Anyway it's stupid. They also want to ban The Little Mermaid, which if they actually read properly would realise is more bittersweet than happy - the mermaid dies, yes. But through her love for a human and self-sacrifice of choosing to die rather than to kill the prince and end the spell making her human, she gains the chance to get a soul an eternal life in heaven. Which (if you believe in heaven) is actually more uplifting than The Snowman, which I love and all but in which he just melts into nothing.
This is so odd. The woman Claire Hughes was actually on the BBC?
I was horrified by this article but then I found out it was a marketing hoax:
http://www.inkygirl.com/happy-endings-foundation-a-book-marketing-ploy/
I suppose Ms. Hughes was actually an employee of the marketing company. I wonder how the BBC feels about this?
Wow I did get referred to their site, and when the disclaimer was pointed out I laughed it off as me and the press being taken in by a spoof site. However, I'm really suprised it was a marketing ploy!
The radio show featuring Clare Hughes should be still on the BBCs listen again feature until Friday 12th.
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