And thus completing Plato, I moved on to something on the complete opposite end of the spectrum in terms of writing: Lemony Snicket's holiday tale, "The Lump of Coal", illustrated by Series of Unfortunate Events partner Brett Helquist.
It took me about five minutes to read the book, so I'll try not to spend more time on it than that. Simply put, after the polarizing finish to Snicket's Series, it's refreshing to see a Snicket book reach a logical and ironic conclusion, which is what I hoped for The End.
Snicket's focus is the beauty of miracles (or coincidence, if you want). Since the book is written under the penname Lemony Snicket, a lot of the tropes from A Series of Unfortunate Events are here -- non sequitur inserts from the author's personal life, a hilariously specific definition of a word. The illustrations are more realistic than the few present in Series, and it's nice to see them in full color. Finally, it was easy to relate to the lump of coal, and I could not be more happy with his ultimate fate.
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