Rating: Summary: The Wide Window Review: LOL... This book was an excellent, though not the best of the series so far. Lemony Snicket's series is just addictive.
Rating: Summary: Tragedy follows... Review: "The Wide Window" is in my view the most sad and tragic of all the books in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" centered on the life of the orphans Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. In book the third the Baudelairs are taken by their lawyer Mr.Poe to live with Aunt Josephine at her house on the top of the mountain at Lake Lachrymose, home of the venomous Lachrymose Leeches. Aunt Josephine is scared of everything and expects diaster to always be around the corner. She thinks she will get burned by using the stove so the Baudelairs have to settle with the most awful cold cucumber soup they have ever tasted. Plus Aunt Josephine loves nothing more than grammar and constantly corrects the orphans mistakes. However Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are thankful that Count Olaf hasn't appeared in the quiet Lake Lachrymose yet. Their luck doesn't last long. It seems this time Count Olaf disguises himself as Captain Sham a sea captain!!! He totally fools Aunt Josephine but not the Baudelairs! Mysteriously Aunt Josephine seems to have commited suicide after a phone call to Captain Sham and has left the children under his care! Can the Baudelair orphans foil his evil plans once again?I found this book to be very sad even though it was still hilirous. Lemony Snicket truly works his magic in these books. I can't wait to read his autobiography!
Rating: Summary: A sad, but good book Review: This book was especially good because it had a lot of suprises. At the end when they are trapped in Lake Lacrhymose the suspense was killing me because you didn't expect Count Olaf to come and rescue the orphans. I disliked Count Olaf a lot because he is so obsessed with money. The orphans are really smart and Sunny surprised me with her abilities to do thing for a very small child. I didn't like Mr.Poe either. I like Aunt Josephine even though I thought she was a freak. I felt really bad for her because her husband died. I felt really bad for the orphans too because their parents died and all these bad things keep happening to them. Over all the book was really good and I can't wait to read another book about the Baudlaire orphans.
Rating: Summary: Adam's review for The Wide Window Review: You're never going to know what is going to happen next in the book The Wide Window! In the book there are exciting and surprising things that make you jump out of your chair, and that make you want to read even further. This book is the third book in a series about three children named Violet, Klaus, and, Sunny. Their mom and dad died in a fire, now they are on their third adventure with Aunt Josephine. This is a really good book. I really like the series. I think that it is an adventure with lots of surprises. But if you think that this is a happy book, you should think again, because there are some bad things that happen to these children.
Rating: Summary: One Breathtaking Book! Review: If your looking for somthing new and exiting this is the book for you! During the story the poor Budelairs encounter: Leaches who to eat their new caretaker, Capitan Sham [Count Olaf], a person who looks like a man nor woman, a annoying waiter, one big, black lake, and grammer. This book will keep you on the edge of your seat and keep you up until the early hours of the morning. Lemony Snicket is one heck of a author he can make you see the pictures in your head and make you feel as if the story is real and your in it. I cannot describe how these books make you feel as if your in the story but when your there you know it and it is as if time is not there and every page you turn is a an adventure that you wouldnt miss for the world. So take my advise, read this book. If not, one of his others, and find yourself trapped between the pages of this book and in an adventure.
Rating: Summary: Unfortunate Performance Review: Note that this audio book is read by the author, not by Tim Curry who did such a wonderful job reading the first two books in the series. Lemony Snicket should recognize his talents and limitations and stick to writing. Lemony's writing is wonderful, his reading is very disappointing. Hopefully the publisher will re-record this book with Tim Curry or with someone else with equal vocal talents.
Rating: Summary: Best of the year Review: I liked Series of Unfortunate Events because it is full of adventure. I loved The Wide Window.It is a 10 and up book.I think it's a sad but good book. My favorite character is Sunny, an infant. I like her because she is cute.
Rating: Summary: Great book! Review: This book is a great book! I used to not like to read but when I started reading these books I then loved to read and then I would stay up late and finish the book I was reading. One of my favorites is number three. These books get better as you read them. Although these books are a little frightning I still recomend them. But if you like to have a happy ending at the end of each book don't read it. Because nothing but a few things are very happy in this book.
Rating: Summary: Have you lost the thrill? Review: Are you sick of reading fairy stories that always end Happily Ever After? Wonder why villians try to take over the world when they must know they wont win? Here is a tale about three children who don't always win. Lots of twists, lots of fun. So far, number three is my favourite, numbers 1 and 2 set the scene, so in 3 there's more action and adventure. The books might seem repititive, but the writer is clever and funny, introducing new ideas with each book making the stories more complex and intriguing. A book adults will enjoy too! These books make you love books! As twisted and funny as Roald Dahl and Edward Gorey, as spine tingling as Agatha Cristie!
Rating: Summary: They're good books, but... Review: I've read the first two books in this series too. They're funny and well written, but i don't think i'm going to read any more in the series, because they're basically all the same. Count Olaf shows up in some disguise, tries to get rid of the kids, who know its Count Olaf but no one believes them. In the end, it is Count Olaf and the kids lose everything but their lives, and the adults realize that they should have listened to the kids. But of course, in the next book they fall for it again. If you don't mind that sort of thing you should read them all, but if reapeting plots bug you, you should only read one book in this series to get the whole idea.
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