Thoughts on the next Lemony Snicket book

[yendi]

I'm not sure how much of a spoiler it is to talk about titles, but considering the fact that the title and cover art to A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 12 is being kept secret (even though it comes out in eight days), I'll tag this.



First, remember that there's no guarantee that any of the information at this site isn't a lie. This is the Snicketverse we're dealing with here. But I'm assuming it's accurate, for now.

So, I've been avidly running through the clues at The Nameless Novel, and today's led to a secret code on this page. The code itself mentions a "Counterfeit Concierge," and in the cover art that we can see on the TNN page, there's clearly a concierge's desk.

Now, as some folks have noted, Snicket has not repeated alliterative/assonantal starting letters. That might be deliberate, or coincidental. If it's the latter, both "hotel" and "resort" are possibilities, probably with "horrible/horrid" and "wretched," respectively.

In addition, if you read the faux promo for the next The Littlest Elf book, the title is The Remarkable Resort. Since TLE tends to be the mirror of ASOUE, a "resort" title is certainly a possibility.

Of course, aside from the repeated first letters, I'm also not a fan of "wretched." That said, there's no direct synonym beginning with a true "r." That said, given our lack of other information, there are still thousands of adjectives -- after all, "ersatz" and "reptile" were certainly not inherently negative words.

I don't like the other possibilities for hotel -- inn, motel, lodge, etc are all too low-scale to have a concierge. That said, a big enough resort could be an island, which would give us an unused letter. And given the state of things at the end of the last book, I could see them getting to an island resort.

Anyway, only a week to go. But I want to know now, dammit!

Comments

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Repugnant Resort? Rational Resort? (where everybody has logic as a common character flaw... you know, he likes to do stuff like that... throw a whole collection of people into a common mindset that the triplets must overcome) Insipid Inn; Larchy Lodge... *shrug*

[montykins.livejournal.com]

I don't think it'll be The R___ Resort, but I'm basing that solely on The Reptile Room already having used R. My guess is Hotel, but I'm sad that the cover image from thenamelessnovel.com doesn't look like it's going to have the title on it. Maybe when all the pictures are assembled, a new mystery will be revealed.

[yendi]

But we also had the Hostile Hospital.

Also, by the time the complete image is up at the website, the book will have been released (the last piece comes together on the release date). I guess it's just their way of ensuring nothing happens any sooner.

[jerel.livejournal.com]

The author said that he was kind of nervous that only a handful of people knew the title of the novel. He suggested to his editor that they travel separately until publication; if they were together and something happened, no one would know what the bloody thing was supposed to be called.

[yendi]

Those comments were more in character -- a this point, there are probably thousands of folks who know (not least of which include printers and folks at Amazon and other places that have the book in stock and are waiting to ship it out).

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

hey! how did you know that? I thought I was the only one who knew that...... : (

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

Ah! Here it is.


Well, we KNOW they're going to the Hotel Denouement (although maybe not in book 12 -- since "Denouement" implies the books will end there, and we know we have 1 more book to go.)

But "The Hostile Hotel" is right now. How about "The Inhopsitable Hotel?" Nah......doesn't trip off the tounge quite right.

[thefirethorn.livejournal.com]

well, thanks to some Very Flawed (Morally) Dealer (Of Books), we now have this link.


http://www.grrface.com/2005/10/for-beatrice-no-one-could-extinguish.html



It has the title. We were all wrong.

[yendi]

*nod -- I just posted the same link earlier. To be fair, he hasn't used concept (as opposed to an object or place) since the first book, and I assumed that would remain the case until the Calamitous Conclusion.