>>11 Would ya look at that.. Lemony Snicket actually did depress someone by writing.
Yeah, I dunno. I was never really depressed by the serious, I think it was sort of like some kind of black humour for me. I understood that many people died, and many close friends were lost, and that the Baudelaires were bullied. But I think it might've had something to do with the fact that I was still fairly young when I read the series. And that I had only just begun properly getting into reading books.
I wasn't too disappointed with the ending. I went into major obsession mode and went on the internet researching what went into the books after that. I remember just being disappointed because it turned out that their parents weren't really alive at all. I still have trouble working out what happened after that.
Daniel Handler said that he just wanted to write a gothic-esque series about kids growing up. So maybe the whole thing was really just a metaphor for them growing up.
