Video: Lemony Snicket Makes a Youtube Video

Posted on November 25, 2009

Lemony Snicket (aka Daniel Handler) has decided to take to Youtube to discourage his many readers from taking advantage of the fact that the first book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, #1: The Bad Beginning is now available to be read for free online. By squinting, we can just make out what books Lemony is currently reading: A Century of Horror, The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford and Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex by Judith Levine and Joycelyn M. Elders. Unfortunately Lemony is interrupted before he can tell us his second important message. Take a look:

If you must, you can read the first book in the series here.

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