A complete wreck

No, this post is not about myself, but about a series of books I bought. I now have all thirteen volumes of A series of unfortunate events.

[ and the whole series in a slip-case is called: The complete wrack... ]



Book Description: (From Amazon.com)
For readers who deserve the very worst, all thirteen volumes in Lemony Snicket's best-selling A Series of Unfortunate Events are now available in one terribly heavy package. Slip-cased in an excruciatingly exquisite box, readers can now uncover the entirety of the Baudelaire's misfortunes—right from The Bad Beginning through to The End. There is nothing worse than having all thirteen of Lemony Snicket's books in one place, except, perhaps, reading them...

One of the thirteen terrible books

They are very beautiful books, with a kind of antique look-and-feel. The one disadvantage of these books (besides the sad stories) is that they read very fast: in under 3 hours you've devoured a volume...

[ but then again, there a thirteen to go through... ]