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Summary: The Austere Academy
Review: The Austere Academy is a good book from a Series of
Unfortunate Events. This is a good book because it makes you want to keep reading. It always has an adventure the Buadelaire orphans go on. This book is about three orphans. Their
names are Violet, the oldest Baudelaire, Klaus, who is the middle boy, and the baby girl,Sunny. Violet is an inventor, who helps her siblings out of rough times. Klaus is a book-worm who is always looking for a good read. He is also very smart. And Sunny is is a baby who loves to bite things. She has four sharp teeth like a shark. As you can probably tell by the title they go to an academy where they meet new friends and run into to an old so called friend but I won't tell you who. And I'll let you find out the rest by reading it!
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Summary: The Austere Academy
Review: Lemony Snicket's The Austere Academy is a great book! This is the Baudelaires 5th adventure in trying to find Count Olaf. This time the Baudelaires get sent to Prufrock Prepartory school and meet some new friends. This is an outstanding book. All kids and adults will love reading it! It always made me keep reading, every time I thought I was at a good place to stop reading something else exciting happens. So read this book and find out what happenes to the Baudelarie orphans!
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Summary: An Exquisite Confection of Doom
Review: I have read all eight books in A Series of Unfortunate Events (now eagerly awaiting the ninth). I love each and every one of them, but The Austere Academy is by far my favourite. Perhaps because I'm still schooling, and Prufrock Preparatory is a wickedly apt parody of school as we students know it. Mostly because it introduces the Quagmire triplets, setting the scene for something larger in the following books. Plus, of course, cliffhangers are irresistable, and of all the books this one has the most exhilarating one yet. Highly recommended - and after you've read it, there will be no need to recommend the other books to you. This one is enough to hook you in.
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Summary: Severely Lackluster
Review: With the arrival of The Austere Academy, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events officially settles into being a one-trick pony, which here means "a rather predictable and gimmicky set of books which require the reader to suspend an inordinate amount of disbelief." Don't get me wrong -- I was absolutely enchanted by the first three books. But by book four, the veneer of novelty had started to get a little thin. Snicket is now scraping the bottom of the barrel on "what other unfortunate event can these orphans endure," and "what other inappropriate guardian will there be?" Even the cute little throw-away references intendeed for more mature readers (i.e. Nero playing the violin) has become just another gimmick. The introduction of another set of unfortunate orphans weakens the premise rather than strengthening it. Also, to accept these books as plausible, I had to assume that the world that the unfortunate Baudelaires inhabit was a Dickensian landscape filled with vaguely 19th century mills, trains, academies, etc., as well as incredibly stupid, provincial bumpkins. References to modern technology such as planes, which I noticed in this book, seem jarring to me, as they imply that the Baudelaires exist in our own world. And that is impossible. I have actually read the full series and found this to be the weakest link. In the first four books, the unfortunate events seem merely gratuitous. In six through eight, Snicket seems to be working towards some sort of grand design. The Austere Academy seems trapped between the two groupings.
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Summary: Wow! How Good Do These Books Get
Review: Violet, Claus, and Sunny go to a bording school where they find nothing but trouble... and two friends! The principal makes them listen to 6 hours of his so-called "violin playing." They make two good friends called the Quagmire triplets who lost their mom, dad, and brother in a fire. As you might have guessed, Count Olaf shows up with the sneakiest plan yet! I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Totally Austere!!!
Review: In the book the fifth, Voilet, Klaus, and Sunny find themselves at Prufrock Preparatory School, where unfortunately the motto is Memento Mori, or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting, and certainly marks an bad beginning to a very bleak story. The orphans are hoping for a brighter place than last. Unfortunately there new guardian of sorts Vice Principle Nero is exactly the opposite. A self proposed genius Nero is your exact match to a snob. He mimics in his screechy tone everything the orphans say and he is a self proclaimed genius at the violin. With this horrid Vice Principle the Baudalaiurs know that they aren't going to have a grand time. Hope dissipates more however when they see their new living courters which is an "Orphan Shack". Not only are there live crabs in the shack but fungus too! It seems the only confort the orphans have are also orphans. The Quagmire tripets Duncan and Isadora. The orphans make friends quickly through their boring lessons and Vice Principle Nero's boring concerts. For some time the Baudalaires finally think they have found peace and thier unfortunate lives are over. Hopes disappate as quickly as thin air when they see thier new gym teacher Coach Genghis. He is no other than Count Olaf!! What has he planned for the orphans now??
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Summary: good but not great
Review: The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5)
was good but had a few problems sinckit could have explaned the book more
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Summary: The Bad Bad School
Review: Have you read a book that is confusing and boring? Well this book is jus that type. If you like those kinds of books don't read on. But if you don't then do read on. This book is just that way because if uses bad words weird sentence's and a bad plot.
The characters in this story are Carmelia, the Quagmeirs and the Baudelairs. The worst character is Carmelia because she's mean and cocky. She is like that because she makes fun of kids and she throws stuff at them. The Quagmeirs on the other hand are nice and smart.
In conclusion, I don't really like this book because it is boring and confusing. Though other people might think its exciting but I think its boring. If you like it read the other 4 books.
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Summary: A TRUE TALE OF WOE
Review: The Lemony Snicket books are by far the coolest and most imaginative things I've read in a bit. They are a bit dark and strange, which is odd for a children's book. However, they are great for adults.
I easily read each book in a day and am in suspense waiting for the next.
You will wish and hope and dream the Baudelaire Orphans will escape from the evil Count Olaf. But, as Lemony Snicket is careful to remind you, don't expect a truly happy ending.
These books are inexpensive and worth every penny.
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Summary: great book for kids!
Review: this is a great book for kids who like reading and don't mind being tired every day at school because they stay up almost all night reading such a good book. I recommend reading all the books in order or else it doesn't make much sense. this book is about three orphans,Sunny,Kluas,and violet. they meet two "triplets" and they become good friends.read it to learn more about it.-Michael-
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