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Summary: The Bad Beginning
Review: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket is miserable, sad, depressing, and of course unfortunate. It tells the sad story of Violt, Kause, and Sunny Baudelaire. However, for such a sad tale it is good!
The story opens on Briny Beach where the children were spending the day. They receive the terrible news about their parents perishing in a fire that burned down their mansion. As if that isn't enough, they have to go live with an evil man who tries to steal their fortune. Lemony Snicket is a marvelous writer. Anyone who enjoys Harry Potter books would like this book.
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Summary: The Bad Begining
Review: The Bad Begining The Bad Begining is a story about three children whose house burned down while they were at the beach. Unfortunately their parents were in the house. So from there a man named Mr. Poe has to find a family member to take responsibility of the orphans and so he takes them to their uncles house. Count Olaf! What a name and from there on it gets worse because he treats them with no respect.
I think the best character is Sunny the little baby because she likes to bite everything just like when I was baby I chewed on everything in site. I didn't like Count Olaf because he did the most hateful things to the children. The theme of the book is acting smart and something good may come out of it. I think the best thing about the book is when Count Olaf found out when the oldest Baudelaire Violet signed the marriage paper with the wrong hand so they couldn't get married and Count Olaf couldn't have the Baudelaire fortune. The worst part was when Count Olaf smacked Klaus the middle age orphan across the face. ...
I think the authors writing is great because he keeps the reader reading and he makes his books so interesting to where you don't want to put the book down. Lemony Snicket (author) gives the perfect amount of details in this book of the series. The vocabulary is just right, not too hard but not too easy. I like everything about the book. The Bad Begining is a great book. This book should be read from about seven and up, only because it's not bad for that age group and they may just think it is the best book because it tells about a child's life and how it turns out. I give this book five stars.
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Summary: The Bad Beginnig
Review: The Bad Beginning The novel, "The Bad Beginning", is a story by Lemony Snicket. It begins as a terrible start that leads three wealthy children in to the hand of unfortunate events. The children get adopted in to a terrible man named Count Oalf. He mistreats the children so bad that it could cost them their lives! They are in danger and in need of help until they find someone loving and caring lady. But is she really all that or is he another one of Count Olaf's friends ready to kill them for their huge fortune? In this novel there are four main characters named Count Oalf, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. The children are very likeable and active. Violet Baudilar likes machinery and she wants to be an inventor when she grows up. Klaus Baudilar wants to read, read, read, all day long. Sunny (the baby) Baudilar wants to chew chew, chew, 247. Count Oalf the most dislikable character, is ugly mean and sloppy. Since the novel is very mysterious and mean the theme must be "You can t always get what you want." Lemony Sniket may have some words that a 4th grader may not understand but he has the definition beside it. I can't stand that because you can figure it out as you read that paragraph the word is in. I was very satisfied with the ending it left me in suspicion about what would happen to them next. Or were there lives would lead them. They never tell you what happens to Count Oalf.... Most people would not like the ending because it is not a, "Then they lived happily ever after." kind of ending.... Lemony Snicket keeps the reader so into the book you would not want to put it down. It tells every question you would want to know if you were confused. He tells very brief descriptions and helps keeps you on task (he will never let you get bored) the way the novel is written. You can fell how the other characters are felling because he gives you real life situations. I think that ages 8-14 would enjoy reading this book because it is not to babyish or to old to put the book down. It is interesting and enjoyable to read. I would prefer kids with imagination and adventurous minds and love to read. I guarantee that if you are all the above you would pick up this book enjoy it, love it, and buy it. He has so far 9 series out so go to your nearest bookstore and buy it before it is to late!!...
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Summary: Nothing's better
Review: This book is fabulous! The characters are perfect and it really feels like it is true. The author makes it feel like you can just see everything that is going on! This book may have miserable events but the story and everything in it is wonderful!!!! This book is so good you get glued to the book. I finished it fast because I had to at least read the book for three hours a night. I would reccomend this book to anyone who can read!!!!!
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Summary: The Good Beginning K.S.
Review: The Bad Beginning is about a three wonderful kids. These kids have a very happy life until they are on the beach and this man named Mr. Poe came and informed the kids that there loyal parents had died. These Three kids were named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. Violet was fourteen and enjoyed inventing things. Klaus was twelve and enjoyed to read. And Sunny was just a baby and had really sharp teeth, and loved to bite. When these three orphans were informed there house had been burned down with their parents inside, there life began to change. They went to live with this man named Count Olaf. This man was evil and the three kids had figured it out living with him for a couple of days. They soon realized they were in a trap. Was this trap dangerous? Was it for their lives?
I thought this book was fantastic. This is one of my favorite books along with the other Series Of Unfortunate Event books by Lemony Snicket. I thought that this book described the terrible life of the three Baudelaire orphans so well. I would recommend The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, and The Hostile Hospital. They are all a part of The Series Of Unfortunate Events written by Lemony Snicket. I thought there was nothing to make this book better than it already is. K.S.
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Summary: Miserably Unique, Captivating Read, but slightly insulting.
Review: We read the book together Mom (age 30), son (age 14), and two daughters (ages 10 and 12). It took us about 7 hours to complete the book, reading a couple of hours per night. Each day the children and myself anxiously waited for reading time due to our curiosity of 'what would happen next!' We are now anxiously awaiting Amazon to deliver the rest of the books in the series! The book was dreadfully morbid yet intriguingly unique and fun to read as a group. The author is an absolute nutcase who is bound to make you laugh in some twisted sort of way. He is quite upfront about the book being a horrible book and that makes it all the better.
Outside of [feeling the author insults the reader's intelligence by some insuations] the book is still definitely worth the read and it captivated the children and myself enough for us to order the rest of the series. We all applaud the author's unique style and hilarious presentation of these unfortunate events. He himself is just morbid enough to be responsible for telling this dreadful tale.
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Summary: Great book
Review: The book, The Bad Beginning, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket was a great book. I rated it five stars. It's about three miserable orphans whose parents perish in a fire. All of their belongings burn to ashes. The orphans have to go live with their evil Uncle Olaf who has a plan to steel their fortune. He makes them do hard chores. I recommend this book to anyone who likes when sad things happen to other people.
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Summary: Enjoyable dark humor
Review: ...READ THE BACK OF THE BOOK JACKET! Does it sound funny and amusing? Then you will probably like it. If you think "ewww" then you will probably dislike it. It's as simple as that. The book is dark humor and dark humor only appeals to certain tastes. I would have loved this book as a child since I was raised on such movies as Arsenic and Old Lace. Other children may be frightened, use you own judgement. However, it is my belief that these books are more fun for adults than children. I fail to see why these novels are compared to the Harry Potter series (of which I am not a fan) since they are not really the same genre. I think this book will be more enjoyable readers who have had wide experience in the field of "orphan" stories (read the Boxcar Children back to back with this book and note some amusing comparisons) This irreverent tale turns many of the cliches of the genre on their heads. Now, adult content. Forced marriage to a 14 year old. I honestly do not believe that most children will think of the risque aspect of the plot device. After all, it is not really dwelled on and besides it has been used in Disney films, fairy tales and such for years. And the plot is all centered around getting the fortune from the children not Count Orloff finding a bride. Again, parents should use their own disgression. (The same argument goes for the child in danger plot device) This book has marvelous dry humor and it is a kick to read but it simply is not for all tastes.
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Summary: worth it
Review: origoinally i scorned this book- what was this new shiny addition to my neighborhood bookstore and why does the back suggest i dont read it? either way i wasnt going to i was going to ignore it and read my other books that didnt need to rely on flashy illustrations and fancy hardcovers. needless to say i read it. my mom once made a deal with me that she would buy any book i wanted as long as i would finish it- that was her first mistake her second was actually living up to her promise but this a bad begining was pushing my familys tight budget with its heafty price tag- so i was going to follow the authors advice and not read this tale of woe. then one day i had made an extra ten dollars so i bought it and from the second i opened it to the moment i finished it- this was one of the best books i have ever read. it was new- refreshing- it was amazing so i read the entire series in almost a week, the writing is fantastic and the illustrations are perfectly melded with the story line not to mention utterly amazing themseves so was this book worth my hard earned money and did i change my view of mister lemony snickett- the answer would have to be yes. anyways read the book its great for anyone (im 15) and it is worth it. maybe i should quit judging books by the cover.
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Summary: A Great Read!
Review: This book is so good! I bought it last summer and at first the back sort of turned me off. I bought it anyway and then I took it to my summer camp. I was so into the book I read it in 1 day and then I wrote to my mom to ask her to send me more! The whole series if great! I can't wait until the ninth book comes out. I just love how this book makes you want to find out what happens!
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