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Summary: Great Stuff!
Review: This is an eerily good book. The character development is absolutely wonderful, and the plot kept me interested the whole way thru.
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Summary: The Austere Academy
Review: My favourite character is Carmelita Spats and my favourite part of the book is when the children chase Count Olaf. I enjoyed this book because it explains things so well and because it could change so quickly and easily. I would definitely recommend it to my friends and I give it nine and three quarters out of ten.I am looking forward to reading the sixth book in the series. Alex, Age 9
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Summary: Addicted to Snicket!
Review: This is probably my favourite Snicket of the series now. After breaking down and buying the full set, I'm bombing through them daily. I'm trying not to think about when I get to the end of Book 8 and have to wait until October!!! Alas, I would feel as lowly as Mr. Snicket feels about his lost Dante-esque Beatrice. It seems as though adding more characters around the Baudelaire's age really helped the story. I LOVE the triplets - so wise and wonderful! There is a nice "evil" child to counterbalance the addition of new friends for the orphans. And the use of more literary references, such as the "Prufrock Prep." (from my favourite T.S. Eliot poem!) made it all the more enjoyable for a highly literate reader. The hilarious wordplay is still there: Snicket naming Count Olaf "Coach Genghis" plays on "Genghis Khan" or more rightly "con" as he foils everyone into believing he is the best gym teacher in the world with the worst case of foot odor! The part I just can't get over laughing about is that Sunny had to become the Vice Principal's secretary. Anyone who has been a secretary knows how silly a baby doing this job would be. Especially for her answering the phones! Mr. Snicket does not talk down to his audience. Some of the younger readers may not get the intricate, more intellectual humor and wordplay. But this is a book to be enjoyed on many levels for many age groups. Read them, if you dare!!! :-) Hoping Mr. Handler (ahem, Snicket) never runs out of ideas for adults and children alike, A faithful reader
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Summary: Exquisite. Possibly the best in the series.
Review: Some may feel that A Series of Unfortunate Events is a little too dark and depressing for younger readers, or for people with a tendency to melancholia in the first place. But I beg to differ - I find the series very inspiring, actually. The Baudelaire orphans are amazingly moving in the way they stick together against all odds and in the face of such adversity, and book five, The Austere Academy, might be the best proof of this. This book is set in a school, which already brings it closer to the hearts of many schoolgoing readers. In addition to the Baudelaires' other problems they also have to contend with the social problems that every kid has encountered: how to fit in, and make friends with the other children. Here, we see the introduction of the most enduring ray of hope yet for the Baudelaires: the Quagmire triplets. The story of the Baudelaires and their misfortune is first-rate in The Austere Academy, as always, but this book is my personal favourite of the series because it has heart. The friendship forged between the Baudelaires and Quagmires is extremely touching and it also lends an added dimension to the storyline. Any of the books in this series is good. But The Austere Academy is the one that hooked me hardest. This is my comfort book, the book I go to when I am depressed and need to be reminded that warmth exists.
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Summary: Another great installment to a great series
Review: This book is one in a series of unfortunate events. The books in the series tell of the unfortunate events which occur in the lives of the Baudelaire orphans.
Their misfortunes start when their parents die, and they are forced to live with a mean distant relative, named Count Olaf. Count Olaf is bent on getting the Children's Fortune, left to them by their parents, and will stop at no end. He has thus far managed to fool several relatives, not to mention kill them too. The children have escaped, just barely, several times from the clutches of Count Olaf.
this books tells of their encounter with Count Olaf at the Austere Academy. The building are shaped as coffins, if that gives any hint as to what this story suggests. However, an interesting thing happens while they are at this school. They learn of something which may be able to help them in the search for what really happened to their parents, VFD. The secrets lie in VFD. However, this discovery is made while two of their friends are being taken away. will they ever see them again?, or are thier friends doomed like the parents of those unfortunate children?
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Summary: Back on track!
Review: After becoming used to the basic outline used in all the Snicket books, The Austere Academy throws a monkey wrench into all of it in the form of two triplets (their brother had died) the Quagmires. The story doesn't end as you'd think it would, and I was actually really surprised that Snicket decided to mix things up a little. The vice-principal of the boarding school (there appears to be no principal) Nero provides most of the story's humor and all of the real belly laughs in the book, save for the author's comments of course. He's absolutely hilarious. The best book in the series since The Reptile Room.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: This book was actually very good after the 4th book.... I thought that Mr. Snicket was very clever with his use of details in SORE and the Quagmire triplets. He also mentioned V.F.D. What is it? I think it means Very Fine Disguise
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Summary: This book might be the best book in the world!!
Review: I just read this book this week and i LOVED it it was great , the whole series is great too definately a good buy. if you want a book to read i suggest you get this or an another one from this series . Lemony Snicket is a great writer and his books ar e awesome.
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Summary: The Baudelaires Go To Boarding School
Review: This book leaves you hanging with questions and excitement until the very last page.If you're looking for a book to read I highly recomend The Austere Academy.
In the Fifth book of A Series of Unfortunate Events the Baudelaires encounter many new experiences.The new home for them is Prufrock Preparatory School,but where they sleep is a different story.The Orphan's Shack where there are Krabs and Fungus and the ceiling drips endlessly...
ENJOY!
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Summary: Definitely the best So far
Review: I read all of them up to book 6, and Ithink that this one was the best. The storyline is cahanged, and it leaves you with an abrupt ending causing you to HAVE to read the next book and so on and so forth. This one is actually one you could just pick up and enjoy after have reading The Bad Beginning, because all the other ones just have exaclty the same storyline with different names and faces. DONT SKIP THIS ONE!!!
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