A Series of Unfortunate Events #7: The Vile Village CD

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Summary: Inside this book the eye will see a truly dreadful story!
Review: Lemony Snicket's "The Vile Village" is the worst of his "Series of Unfortunate Events", and for his books, that's a compliment.

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Summary: Snicket Continues The Catastrophies With Number VII!
Review: Lemony Snicket, wonderful weaver of woe, has done it again with the recent release of A Series of Unfortunate Events Number Seven, "The Vile Village".The story begins with another trip to ANOTHER Gaurdian(or Gaurdians...?), Hector the Handyman, a citizen of V.F.D., supposed location of the beloved Quagmires.A foul(or FOWL?)statue, crow hats, lying newspapers,and many rules with dire consequences make up this dreadful narrative of the Baudelaires misfortunate lives will fill readers with laughter, and, more often than not, sympathy.

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Summary: Fantastic Book
Review: The Vile Village is an exciting book. You will never know what trouble the Baudelaires will get into. People who have read the previous books will be happy to see the initials V.F.D. You finally find out what it is. The ending is surprising. You would never had gussed it. Like is said before you will never know what trouble, or misfortune, the Baudelaires will get into.

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Summary: U must read
Review: This series is so cool that all my buds are reading it . Hi my name is sean I am 11 and I live in .... This book is so cool that I read it in one day.So if u can read it do it .

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Summary: The Vile Village
Review: This book was very exciting,funny, and has many miserable characters.Atleast Violet, Klaus, and Sunny have someone who cares for them, even though that person is not much help.This is the best book I've ever read. I hope other people enjoy it, too.

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Summary: Misfortune follows the Baudelaires to their newest home.
Review: Because none of their distant relatives will take them in out of fear of Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans become part of a new program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child." Under this program, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny's newest guardians will be all the residents of an entire village. In the hopes of solving the mystery of "V.F.D.," the children choose a village by that name as their new home. But they are terribly disappointed. They are sent to live with a kind but timid man named Hector who loves to cook Mexican food and has a library of forbidden books. V.F.D. is run by the strict Council of Elders, who have made tens of thousands of ridiculous rules that the citizens of the village must follow or risk being burned at the stake. When the Baudelaires are falsely accused of murder and imprisoned, they must escape from the jail and find their friends the Quagmires, who are hidden somewhere in the village. This was another miserable, hilarious book in A Series of Unfortunate Events that is a must-read for all fans of the series.

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Summary: The Vile Village By: Lemony Snicket
Review: Parvenue au Tome 7 des Désastreuses aventures des Orphelins Baudelaire, je leur accorde désormais beaucoup de crédit ! En toute honnêteté, Lemony Snicket adopte une tournure captivante, optant pour quelques grammes de mystères qui étoffent agréablement le récit. Dans "L'arbre aux corbeaux", Violette, Klaus et Prunille ont décidé d'être adoptés par la ville de VDC - la lecture des précédents ouvrages vous fera comprendre la motivation de ce choix. Cette ville, alias Villeneuve les Corbeaux, n'est hélas pas accueillante pour les trois enfants, en fait chargés d'accomplir les basses besognes de toute la communauté. Laquelle est dirigée par un Conseil des Anciens qui édicte des règles très strictes interdisant pratiquement tout ! Pour le trio Baudelaire, la menace du Comte Olaf demeure présente, sous quel masque se dissimule-t-il ?.. Sans compter que des vindictes populaires voient le jour, menant à des hérésies, à des condamnations au bûcher et aux mouvements grégaires. Fichtre, on ne s'ennuie pas. D'un côté le secret du comte Olaf s'épaissit, les orphelins Beauxdraps sont dans les parages, une nouvelle énigme voit le jour en la personne d'un dénommé Jacques... Moi qui jugeais les premiers tomes assez répétitifs, je dois reconnaître que depuis un ou deux livres les aventures des Baudelaire ne cessent d'être pimentées ! Je me surprends d'être très attachée à cette série, en fin de compte !

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Summary: A Miserable Birthday for Klaus
Review: Thanks to the evil Count Olaf, all of the Baudelaire's distant relatives refuse to take them in, for fear of being dragged into some unfortunate demise, like the rest of the distant relatives who opened their homes to the Baudelaire's. Hence, the three Baudelaire Orphans - Violet, 14; Klaus, now 13; and Sunny, a baby not much larger than a watermelon - have been enrolled in a program where they will be raised by an entire village, due to the saying, "It takes a village to raise a child." The children quickly choose the village "V.F.D." as their new home, for it is these three initials that the Quagmire Triplets shouted to them before they disappeared once again. However, the Baudelaire's are quite let-down by what they find in "V.F.D." They are forced to live with Hector, a man who has a secret library, a secret inventing studio - they are secret because the "V.F.D." Council of Elders have made them against the law, along with thousands of other rules; if broken you will be burned at the stake, or imprisoned - and loves to cook Mexican food. While he's very kind to the Baudelaire's, when they are accused of murder and thrown in jail, he doesn't defend them or even give them an alibi. Now it's up to the three Orphans to use their strength to escape from jail and find their friends the Quagmires, before it's too late.

As always, Lemony Snicket has done a fabulous job in creating yet another miserable adventure for the Baudelaire Orphans. Even as the three Orphans do chores for the entire town of "V.F.D." and spend time in jail, they never stop thinking, and trying to find a way to make their lives better in any possible way. We are treated to seeing the Baudelaire's happy for just the slightest time in THE VILE VILLAGE, and also have the opportunity to see Klaus turn 13-years-old. Even though his birthday is not a pleasant one. Snicket is on a miserable streak, and I know that it will continue in the next book in the series THE HOSTILE HOSPITAL.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

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Summary: Mysteries and Murders
Review: By now, prospective guardians for the three Baudelaire orphans have grown weary about taking them in since they have had six previous homes and guardians, and in each place they've been, trouble has followed. Sadly for the orphans, the trouble was never their fault, but the evil Count Olaf tends to make things seem as if Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are the causes of the numerous deaths, disturbances, and discomforts that have followed them. So when Mr. Poe can't find a new guardian, he decides to send them to a town participating in a new program revolving around the idea that "it takes a village to raise a child". When the siblings notice that one of the towns is called V.F.D., they believe that they have found the key to solving their troubles with Count Olaf, and will find their missing friends, Duncan and Isadora Quagmire. Sadly, though not unexpectedly, their hopes turn out to be false (for the most part), as V.F.D. stands for Village of Fowl Devotees, and the villagers are completely obsessed with the crows that inhabit the town, as well as 50,000 rules (I am not exaggerating this) that all have the same penalty for being broken: death by fire at the stake.
Things start out bad for the Baudelaires, and they only get worse after they are wrongfully imprisoned for murdering a man that everyone believes to be Count Olaf (turns out, the guy's name is really Jaques S.).
These books continue to improve in quality due to the increase in interesting plot twists and new methods of story telling. Unlike the first few books, even though Count Olaf is still a major player in the grand scheme of things, he is becoming more and more of a background character who manipulates events without anyone knowing instead of trying to rush in and capture the orphans. Can't wait to start the next book, The Hostile Hospital.

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Summary: Still Going Strong
Review: In the "Vile Village" the three Baudelaire orphans become part of a new program based on the saying 'It takes a village to raise a child.' Under this program, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny's newest guardians will be all the residents of an entire village. In the hopes of solving the mystery of 'V.F.D.,' the children choose a village by that name as their new home. They are sent to live with a kind man named Hector who has a library of forbidden books. V.F.D. is run by the Council of Elders, who have made tens of thousands of ridiculous rules that the citizens of the village must follow or risk being burned at the stake. When the Baudelaires are falsely accused of murder and imprisoned, they must escape from the jail and find their friends the Quagmires, who are hidden somewhere in the village.

Enjoyable romp with a bit of a different antagonist being the village elders. I like the way the author keeps finding new and interesting situations to put the kids in.