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Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning

Series of Unfortunate Events #1: The Bad Beginning

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Naveen, The Bad Beginning
Review: Dear reader,
If you like fluffy white kittens, sunshine, rainbows, and sunsets, then you better just not read this book at all. For the Bad Beginning is about Misfortune, Unhappiness, and Misery. However it is not just about Violet, Sunny, and Klaus'unfortunate lives, but it is also about cleverness. This book is based on an evil man, Count Olaf, who tries to steal the Baudalaire orphans' Fortune. What is this euil man's plan? Will he be defeated? Find out in the first book of the Series of Unfortunate Events, The Bad Beginning.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The bad beginning according to Yelena
Review: Violt, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are very unlucky children they would have never pictured their parents dying in this terrible mess.After their parents died they had to live with a maniac that treats them terribly. Will he ever become a good person? Read this book to find out.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: How Unfortunate
Review: The Series of Unfortunate Events is about three orphans who lost their parents in a horrible fire, and has to move in with a relative. The relative is a wicked, mischief, fortune hungry man named Count Olaf. He treats the children badly by beating them sometimes. Like for example, he slaps Klaus sometimes but doesn't hit Violet because he's trying to marry her, (she's only 14 years old). And Sunny is just an infant so he really doesn't hurt her. The Baudelaire children will inherit their parents' fortune when they reach 18 years old. That's the only reason he wants to marry Violet. But, if you're interested in misfortunes, criminals, and unlucky children then you should read this book.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Bad Beginning
Review: The Bad Beginning is an exciting story about three children named Violet who is 14, Klaus who is 12, and Sunny who is just a baby. The story begins when Mr. Poe, a family friend, came to tell them that their parents died in a tragic fire accident. They were sent to live with a mean old man that goes by the name of Count Olaf. Mysteriously he has a eye on his ankle and everywhere in the house. They had to cook, clean and do other chores around the house for him while he goes to work. After a while he gets nicer and nicer and they had no clue why. He then asked them to perform in a play... read the book to find out more about the three unlucky children. We liked this story because it's exiting, mysterious, and you never know what's going to happen next.

-Veronica,Alex, and Colleen

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Series Of The Unfortunate; The Bad Beginning
Review: I give this book five stars because:

1.It makes you want to keep reading
2.Its humorous
3.Its entertaining and interesting to read
4.The author has a great sense of humor
5.The author uses descriptive words

Violet, Sunny and Klaus Baudelaire are three very unlucky children. When their parents perished in a fire, they thought life couldn't get any worse. They were wrong. When the three children are sent to live with a distant relative, they had hoped their luck was about to change for the better. Unfortunately, they had reckoned without Count Olaf and his diabolically fiendish scheme to steal the children's inheritance.
The Series of Unfortunate Events are books that are very different to the typical image of children's literature. As the narrator says, "There is no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and there are very few happy things in the middle." The author uses a great sense of humor and depending on how you focus upon the book, it can either be depressing or very funny. I personally found it very good and interesting to read. Even though some of the things that happen to the three orphans are just plain awful, it still makes me want to read more and more.
The characters are both entertaining. Count Olaf is dangerously evil. The Baudelaires are intelligent, clever, resourceful children who enjoying reading and inventing. No matter what happens, they will always find some solution to their problems, even though more bad things are just around the corner.
This book is really fun to read and very interesting. I recommend this book to all kids of all ages. Whoever reads this book will enjoy it and when they start reading it, I bet they wouldn't want to put it down.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Bad Beginning
Review: I give this book five stars because:
1. It makes you want to keep reading
2. Its humorous
3. Its entertaining and interesting to read
4. The author has a great sense of humor
5. The author uses descriptive words

Violet, Sunny and Klaus Baudelaire are three very unlucky children. When their parents perished in a fire, they thought life couldn't get any worse. They were wrong. When the three children are sent to live with a distant relative, they had hoped their luck was about to change for the better. Unfortunately, they had reckoned without Count Olaf and his diabolically fiendish scheme to steal the children's inheritance.
The Series of Unfortunate Events are books that are very different to the typical image of children's literature. As the narrator says, "There is no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and there are very few happy things in the middle." The author uses a great sense of humor and depending on how you focus upon the book, it can either be depressing or very funny. I personally found it very good and interesting to read. Even though some of the things that happen to the three orphans are just plain awful, it still makes me want to read more and more.
The characters are both entertaining. Count Olaf is dangerously evil. The Baudelaires are intelligent, clever, resourceful children who enjoying reading and inventing. No matter what happens, they will always find some solution to their problems, even though more bad things are just around the corner.
This book is really fun to read and very interesting. I recommend this book to all kids of all ages. Whoever reads this book will enjoy it and when they start reading it, I bet they wouldn't want to put it down.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Bad Beginning Review
Review: This is a great book, and I reccomend this series to most people, because it's got humor, suspense, action, and mystery all slamed into one series. The whole series is about these three children, Violet, the oldest who is 14 and loves to invent things. Klaus, 11, loves to read books about anything. Sunny, the youngest, about 12 months old, likes to bite things, anything really. Their family is VERY wealthy. So anyway, the series is about these three children and their unfortunate events that occur after their parents die in from a fire that happened at their house, and they meet a horrible person who keeps going after their fortune. You'll have to find out what happens in the 9 book series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Bad Begining
Review: If your one of those people who likes books with good/happy beginings and endings then you should definetily not read this series. The Bad Begining is the first book in The Series of Unfortunate Evnts.
There arr three Baudelaire children, Violet, Klause, and Sunny, one day they were playing on the beach when a man named Mr. Poe comes to tell them that there parents had died in a house fire. At that moment the chidren thought their lives would never be the same and it wasn't. Mr. Poe took them to their, third cousin four times removed, Count Olaf. He was a tall man with one eyebrow. He had an eye tatoo on his left ankle.
As the children went on with their live they relized that they did not like Count Olaf as much as they thought they would. He was a rude a crule man with no good heart at all. The Baudelaire orphans had a great fortane after their parent died, witch could not be accessed until Vilot became of age. Count Olaf wanted thier fortune soooo bad he tried anything he could to get it. He devised a plane to get it.
If you want to find out what his plan was, if he succeeded, and what happened to the orphans read The Bad Begining By Lemony Snicket.
I would rate this book with 5 stars because it was one of the best books I have ever read.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
Review: The book, The Bad Beginning, by Lemony Snicket, is about three kids who have a run of bad luck. First, their parents died in a terrible fire. Their parents left Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudilare a fortune that Violet, will receive when she comes of age. They are sent to live with a terrible man, whose name is Count Olaf who tries to steal their fortune. Will the children ever escape from Count Olaf? Will their run of bad luck ever end? Read the book The Bad Beginning to find out more.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Great Story
Review: The Bad Beginning is the first book in the Unfortunate Events Series and in my opinion one of the best. The series is about 3 orphans, named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelair who have to extremely bad luck and have to keep running from an evil man named Count Olaf that's after their fortune. Now, in this particular book is when everything started going wrong for the Baudelairs because first their parents die in an awful fire that also burned down their house and then had their first encounter with the greedy Count Olaf. Then things just slowly begin to get worse from there. I think the Unfortunate Events series is an exciting and adventurous book that makes you keep on reading because you always want to know what happens next, so I can safely say that this book is a real page-turner.


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