Today is the official release date of the 13th and last book of the Lemony Snicket book, THE END. Here’s an excerpt from the back cover of the new book.

Our friends, Red Eft and Dadu, are having a party on Sunday. Red Eft’s brother, a supernumerary at the Metropolitan Opera, was going to come in make up and costume as Count Olaf but he had to decline. We’re hoping someone else will dress up as the Count.

Dear Reader,

You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the
end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if
you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the
end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of
your rope.
This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if
you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can’t stand such
unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of
wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about
the Baudelaire parents.
It has been my solemn occupation to complete the history of the
Baudelaire orphans, and at last I am finished. You likely have some
other occupation, so if I were you I would drop this book at once, so
the end does not finish you.
With all due respect,