This book has an orange spine with the same spiky plant pattern in
it. The ‘ribbon’ alongside this is a jaggedy saw blade pattern in a reddish sort
of a colour.
This is the first book so far not to show all three Baudelaires on
the cover. It’s just got Klaus with one of the lenses of his glasses badly
cracked. I think his outfit looks quite snazzy, there’s a definite Victorian
feel to the outfits that the children are pictured wearing.
In the background there are two things of note. One is a building
with chimneys which are belching out smoke. This is evidently the titular mill.
In front of the mill but still behind Klaus is someone wearing dungarees and
holding up two pans. The person in question can’t really be seen very clearly
because they have a mask over their mouth and nose. It may be significant that
this person only has one eyebrow.
Much of what I remember of the original three books is heavily
influenced by the film adaptation, so I’m a little bit sketchier on what happens
in this one. I know that Mr Poe is beginning to scrape the bottom of the barrel
as they don’t have many relatives left; presumably the relatives they do still
have are wary of taking on the Baudelaires because acceptance of them as their
wards pretty much is a signature to their death warrant.
I know that the mill does some bizarre mundane task and the
employees work without pay. I think there’s a character who is known as ‘Sir’
because his actual name is long and unpronounceable. I pointed out the glasses
sign at the end of the last book and I know that comes into it somewhere, but I
don’t have a clue exactly how or where.
We’ll kickstart this one on Monday afternoon and get the first
five chapters read next week.
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