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Summary: This book is great!!
Review: When my friend Sarah told me about the Lemony Snicket books I made her lend me all of them. I could not set these books down! I am really looking forward to September when The Hostile HOspital comes out!
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Summary: The BEST series in the world!
Review: This is the best book of the best series in the world!! It will make so much more sense, though, if you read the first six, which I also HIGHLY recommend. This book could not be made better- it i hilarious, though you will be screaming out the answer to the mystery in this exciting book. I was torn between reading it all in one day or savoring it for a couple! An easy read, I loved it. I recommend it to every young person who likes humor!!!
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Summary: An AMAZING book!
Review: This book is great! I couldn't put it down! It's very funny with good word choice! I love this series and I can asure you that you'll love it too!!!!
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Summary: The Vile Village VFD By Lemony Snicket
Review: My son (age 9) and I have read every book in this wonderful series and they just keep getting better. As JK Rowling can't crank out Harry Potter's adventures quickly enough, these books are great fun and are great vocabulary builders.
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Summary: Teachers says, "Fifty 3rd graders can't be wrong!"
Review: Another teacher and myself combine our classes for read aloud time. Our classes are really enjoying the books in this series, and we are just finishing "The Vile Village" as the school year ends. It did take a while for some kids to tune in to the author's unique sense of humor, but now they all "get it" and find Lemony Snicket to be very funny. I searched the internet and found a Lemony Snicket website that may be helpful to those considering reading this series. Search for yourself, but if I were you, I'd forget about this review and just read something safer.
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Summary: Conplete and utterly awesome
Review: This was a great book, perfect for any Lemony Snicket fan (btw, I still can't believe it's his actual name)I won't give out the plot so the people who haven't read it get mad at me, but if you've enjoyed the series from 1 to 6, you'lll like this one!
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Summary: Amazingly Amusing
Review: the perfect book to give to a voracious reader between 7-10, Mr Snicket in his depreciating manner delights everyone divinely. Klaus's clever definitions allow kids to learn new Big words, which of COURSE they knew before. The play on words and the intelligent silliness-the logics are reminiscent of Alice. My hat lies on the ground to Monsieur Snicket. The Vile Village is GOOD FUN!
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Summary: Another disastrous success!
Review: My nine year old and I have had such fun reading this series of unfortunate events! He could well read them himself, but these books have proved to be a real delight for both of us. (I use the term "delight" advisedly, as these books always end badly for the Baudelaire children.) "The Vile Village" was an entertaining next installment in the tales of Count Olaf's treachery. And we actually learned something interesting! I am a 46 year old attorney and had no idea that the correct term for a grouping of crows is a "murder," as in a flock of geese, a pod of whales, a bevy of swans, and a murder of crows! The plot of this book is well summarized elsewhere. I can only add that Lemony did not let us down and we are anticipating the next adventure!
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Summary: A Great Edition to a Great Series
Review: In "The Vile Village," Snicket is probably at his best since the beginning of the series. In this novel, Sunny, Klaus, and Violet are put off to the village called V.F.D. The orphans go under the program, "It takes a village to raise a child." Hector, the handyman, is their main caretaker. When they get to the village, they have hopes that the mystery of V.F.D. will be solved. Unfortunately, the village and the mystery are not the same. Fortunately, though, the Quagmire triplets are somewhere in the village. The treacherous villain Olaf returns too, but this time doesn't play as big a role as in other books. So, "The Vile Village" is definitely one of the best of the series, and I can't wait to read the six remaing volumes to come. Get this novel if you're a true fan of the series or a minimal series. Somebody that has never even read the prior books can even enjoy this. Buy and enjoy.Happy Reading!
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Summary: A mysterious and horrible town....
Review: There is a terrible secret of Count Olaf's which is haunting the Baudelaires--but they don't even know what it is. All they know is that it involves the initials V.F.D. They want desperately to rescue their two best friends in the world, the Quagmire triplets, but they have no idea how to find them. But when they have to chose a town in which to live--and to be raised by (since the latest government program with the motto "it takes a village to raise a child" has so many happy customers that Mr. Poe can't resist)--they are positive that they will find their "compatriots"--a word which here means "friend" and which Klaus Baudelaire would use in an occasion such as this--in a certain town listed in the brochure. This is for the reason that the name of the town is none other than "V.F.D." However, when they arrive at their latest home, it has a lot to be desired--and there is no sign of the Quagmires. The Council of Elders is strict and rude, and obsessed with burning people at the stake and talking about it casually. They wear horribly odd crow-shaped hats. And they follow a rulebook containing thousands and thousands of rules. To make matters worse, they make new rules whenever they feel it neccessary. To add to the misery, the Baudelaire orphans are forced to do chores for the entire village, and must do the chores in certain parts of town to avoid the millions of crows which roost uptown, downtown, and in Nevermore Tree during different times of the day. Even more unfortunately, the Baudelaires have not even discovered one clue as to where the Quagmires are being hidden at the moment, or to the whereabouts of Count Olaf and the latest villain in the books, EsmŽ Squalor. The Baudelaires begin to think that perhaps the name of V.F.D. is just a coincidence with the secret of V.F.D. Things change when Hector, the kind city handyman who loves cooking Mexican dishes and who has taken the Baudelaires in, shows the Baudelaires a tiny piece of paper he found under Nevermore Tree--and on this piece of paper is a couplet, which you may remember is Isadora Quagmire's specialty in poetry. Lemony Snicket disarms you with his humor, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of sitting on the aisle seat, the window seat, or the middle seat on a bus, and informing you just how ugly the Fowl Fountain really is, and how half the town brought torches to the burning of an innocent man at the stake, and half brought kindling. The plot in this series thickens even more than at the ends of #5 and #6. You will find yourself desperate to read book #8: The Hostile Hospital. Even more mysteries are added to the growing pile at the end of this book, and you are left wondering and wondering, unsure of what the Baudelaire children will face next. I recommend this book for people who have read the first 6 books and who enjoy hilarious stories.
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