A Series of Unfortunate Disapointments

"Lemony Snicket" has become not only famous, but very successful with his series of books titled "A Series of Unfortunate Events". I read the first book, waaaay back all those years ago, in a matter of hours and immediately wanted to go back to the library for more.

Now that all 13 books have been release, there are thousands of disappointed fans, waiting loyally for what comes next. He left a cliffhanger the size of South America, as well as dozens of unanswered questions. The story is not complete. And to top it all off, he cheated by hiding the 14th book in the back of the 13th.
I once read a theory that he was teaching us basically that life isn't fair and we don't know everything in life or something along those lines which really ticked me off. As well as keeping up with the Baudelaire story and the many many characters in between, we have been learning about Lemony Snicket's story as well. All we've gotten are bits and pieces.

While still finishing off the series, he has released a number of books.
The Beatrice Letters, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography, plus blank journals with quotes from the book and artwork from Brett Helquist and puzzle books. Who knows what else.

Then there was rumor that he was releasing a new book soon (which has since then become released). "Horseradish: The Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid" or something along those lines. I was excited, maybe this was a new trilogy to finish off the series. This was answer all our questions.

I was mistaken and thought the overview of the introduction was actually the story. Here's what Wikipedia has to say:

The bulk of the introduction follows the story of a man and a woman who live in a small grass hut in a village surrounded by a horseradish field. They generally live a routine life, and, as they have no taste for the horseraddish, spend most of their time hunting to prepare raisin-stuffed snails to provide for their meals. One night, the woman asks her husband if there is more to life than doing the same thing for years. Her husband replies that the woman's mother once told him about a wise man who would probably know. The woman visits her mother, who says that she heard about the wise man from the woman's third grade teacher, Ms. Matmos. Ms. Matmos tells the woman that the wise man lives on the top of a mountain far away and that the journey to the top of the mountain is difficult and dull.

After months of walking and thinking about the subjects in the chapter headings, the woman arrives at the house of the wise old man; however, he is in fact not a wise man but a wide man. Tired and hungry, the woman returns home, but learns that in her absence her mother has taken her fishing pole, also that her husband has married Ms. Matmos, and that she failed third grade. The moral of the story is that life has bitter truths that cannot be avoided.

Chapters

1. Home
2. Family
3. School
4. Work
5. Entertainment
6. Literature
7. Travel
8. Emotional Health
9. Affairs of the Heart
10. A Life of Mystery
11. The Mystery of Life
12. An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does
13. Miscellaneous

What in the world?
The introduction is supposed to outline the themes which are the titles of the chapters.

"It is a "wit and wisdom" quotation book partly drawn from Snicket's famous A Series of Unfortunate Events."

My library has let me down and they don't have it.
And now he is releasing NEW books. "The Bad Begging, OR ORPHANS!" - "The Reptile Room, OR MURDER!"
Basically re-releasing the series with more words in the title. I don't get it. You have a series to finish!!!! I have not been able to get my hands on one of these books so I do not know if there is anything actually different about them.

But it seems to me, Mr. Snicket is losing what he once had. Whatever that is, Im not quite sure. But it would appear he is squeezing every penny out of his writing career -under the name Lemony Snicket- while it lasts. And that makes me mad. I just hope he answers the questions tons of people around the world want answered before he gets stoned to death.

I would, however, be willing to forgive him if he actually finished up the series.