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Summary: Amesome!
Review: This was a great book! If you like this book your going to have to buy the next one's.I think this was very cleverly made.
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Summary: a deliciously dark delight!
Review: suspend your disbelief for a moment and imagine that tim burton, edward gorey, and charles dickens were locked in a room for a brainstorming session to create a new series of children's stories. this is what i can easily see when sitting down to read any of the books in lemony snicket's dark, humorous, and cleverly written series.they are not harry potter. the comparisons alone are ridiculous. they're not even remotely similar. apparently, a "reviewer" can find two books in the same store, one of them being harry potter, and proceed to lambast the non-potter book solely on the fact that they co-exist. i just have to roll my eyes, shake my head, and write a review whenever i see this. by now, you know the plot of these books. yes, they're pretty much the same, and yet they're different. i think you need to gauge your own child's sense of the morose before opting to read these to them. older children, i think, will delight in them, particularly those with a slightly twisted sense of humor. i, personally, will continue to read each book in the series, if for no other reason than to see how count olaf will turn up next!
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Summary: What A Great Book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book! I think that even though it can be a bit boring there are many great parts. It is also sad and scary but that makes it have flavor! I like this book and I reccomend it highly!
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Summary: Great book, great series
Review: Honestly, why are people abusing these books? Abusing children?! It's set in a perfect way, so that it's ridiculous enough to not be taken seriously, but not so ridiculous that it's stupid. This is a wonderful series. I've only read the first three books, but I'm hooked. Oh, and in book two, don't worry about the curses, because their small enough that if 9 yrs plus can't take them, they can't take Harry Potter either (specifically the 4th, it has more than two curses). So people who complained: Stop taking it so seriously; it's A BOOK!!
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Summary: Wanted the next best thing after Harry Potter. didn't get it
Review: I was looking for a book that would be as fun as reading Harry Potter and I heard that these books were what I was looking for. I'm 21 and LOVE Harry Potter but not these. I felt like I should be 10 yrs younger to read this. Just wasn't entertained at all. So overall, not a book for anyone just the little ones.
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Summary: Horrible
Review: I wouldn't even rate this book one star! It probally was an idea from Harry Potter. He made these books so depressing so dont read them they are horrible. They are so boring also, read the Harry Potter books first they are much better.
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Summary: This book is NOT depressing
Review: Some people may say that this book is depressing. I, on the other hand, find this book to be a great read. The fact that the Baudelaire Children are in a terrible predicament doesn't stop them from cooking up ideas and inventing things, and that makes for a great story line.This book is well written and captivating. I couldn't put it down! So, if you're looking for a good book to read when you have some spare time on your hands, pick up this one!
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Summary: Take the author's advice on the back of the book.
Review: I can't imagine what other reviewers found in this book to grant it more than a single star. They must have severely low expectations for their children's literature. The only thing going for this book is the running gag from the author about how terrible the books are and how depressed he is at having to write them. (His web site is hilarious, by the way. This book, however, is not.) Some might argue that this book is morbidly funny, even slightly camp - and that they enjoy being in on the author's joke. However, I found the characters unrelentingly stupid or cruel, and the story unimaginative. Even the children are dunderheads (except Sunny, aptly named). And the "joke" of the author's morbidity wears thin all too quickly. Do yourself a favor and follow the author's advice (humorous as it is) and truly avoid this book. There are many imaginative, well written books for children that handle dark themes well, and are a joy to read. This isn't one of them.
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Summary: So dreadful I can hardly believe it was published
Review: When this novel was given to my son as a birthday present, the family proceeded to read it aloud, as is our custom. We're fiction lovers in this family; I'm a writer myself. My husband and I kept waiting for it to get better. No such luck. The ending was awful. If you're looking for a one-dimensional story, with no subplot, no character development, unbelievable sketches built around gimmicks rather than in-depth characters anyway, an ending we pretty much guessed long before the semi-melodramatic finale, loads of flaws in the plot, etc., you're really gonna enjoy this book. Others may wonder, as I do, what on earth is going on with HarperCollins these days. This is yet one more book from my earstwhile favorite publisher where the jacket copy is far more interesting than the book itself. Beneath the hype, a real stinker, sad to say.
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Summary: Great Read-Aloud!
Review: I am a 7th grade Language Arts teacher and am always looking for great books to read aloud to my students. I picked up the first, The Bad Beginning, because I liked the size and cover of the book. After I read the letter from Lemony Snicket warning the reader to put the book down immediately, I was instantly intrigued. I was drawn to the author's sense of humor and his unique way to explain vocabulary make me think this was a possibility for a read aloud. My students LOVED this book. We are now on the Wide Window and they beg me everyday to read some more. The kids are beginning to understand the humor. They boo whenever Count Olaf is in the scene, they groan with the stupidity of Mr. Poe, and they are stunned when Mr. Snicket actually reveals the fate of the characters before it happens. The best endorsement of a book is when my 13 year old boys, who keep telling me reading is boring, go buy these books on their own! Well done, Mr. Snicket. Fremont's 7th grade class cannot get enough of the Bauldelaire Orphans.
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