So it turns out it is perfectly legal to sit out right in the open where everyone, even children, can see you, reading this. I have started a campaign to prohibit all Snicket reading and Snicket production for the sake of the morale and morals of our children and our grown-ups and to corner the market with lucrative underground Snicketing.

The Unauthorised Autobiography is a postmodern portmanteau palimpsest collage of fragmentary fragments and decontextualised correspondence. Fortunately if you have read A Series Of Unfortunate Events you will be able to make the right kind of nonsense out of all this sense and immerse yourself in the world of secret organisations falling apart in arson and betrayal and, indeed, fill in a few blanks and make a few connections here and there. In keeping with the overall theme of the main series, every secret revealed and mystery solved generates more secrets and mysteries, and if you haven't worked that out by now maybe you should go back to the beginning and read it all over again until it finally sinks in.