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Summary: A rather underrated entry in the series.
Review: This time, the children find themselves working in Lucky Smells Lumbermill. Yeah, WORKING. Not only that, but Klaus isn't felling himself lately. Is this Olaf's doing? And how come this receptionist looks like Olaf? Read it and find out!
I thought this was a rather underrated entry. It's a pretty fun book. LS rules!
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Summary: The Entertaining Fourth Entry in the Series
Review: "The Miserable Mill" is the rather stupid, but still entertaining fourth entry in Lemony Snickets series of unfortunate events. Is this the best book? No. Is it the worst? No. But it is a good book. Violet,Klaus,and Sunny Baudelaire are taken to Paltryville, where they are to stay at the Lucky Smells
Lumbermill, where the employees are paid in coupons and their lunch is peice of gum. The minute they arrive the Baudelaire orphans dislike it but what scares them is the building down the street. The building that is shaped like an eye. The building which looks like the tattoo on Count Olafs ankle. Before long they find out their troubles to be true. Count Olaf this time is in disguise as Shirley, the receptionist for Dr.Orwell. As usual the kids recognize Olaf right away and all the adults in the book seem clueless. Enjoy, B-.
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Summary: Not one of the best
Review: As readers of this series will undoubtedly agree, Lemony Snicket makes a very entertaining author. The characters in these stories are unique and fun, however this individual story failed to stand out from the rest. It's plot was ok, and it had it's moments, but it didn't make itself memorable. Although it didn't stand out, it still is a must if one is reading this series.
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Summary: A New Direction
Review: Dear Reader,
When we last left the unfortunate Baudelaire orphans, they had just foiled Count Olaf's latest scheme and had lost their somewhat beloved Aunt Josephine to the carnivorous Lake Lachrymose leeches. When we pick up with them in THE MISERABLE MILL not much time has passed and the children are being whisked away on a train to meet their new guardian, a man who simply calls himself Sir.
The children are supposed to be staying with a guardian somehow "related" to them (no matter how slightly), but I have no idea how Sir is related to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. Anyway, the trio is whisked away on a train to Paltryville where they walk alone from the train station to the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. To their horror, Sir forces the children to work in mill! And not only that, but they are only paid in coupons and are only allowed one meal a day and a piece of gum to eat for lunch. Oh, how horrible! And then Klaus is tripped by the foreman and breaks his glasses and has to go see an optometrist who ends up hypnotyzing him, and then some very, very dreadful things happen (including a most gruesome "accident").
This story is unlike the first three books in the series and leads the children down a path quite different than the one they had been traveling. One would think their misery would come to an end, but it seems as if they are cursed to be followed by a series of unfortunate events.
Try to enjoy reading this book and whatever you do, please stay away from electric lumber saws in mills.
Sincerely,
Uncle TV
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Summary: Comical
Review: From the four books I've read so far, this one is the most silly. Not that being silly is bad, it's just that I wasn't expecting some of the events that occurred.First of all, this super villian, Count Olaf, appears in this book dressed as a woman. I did think he was the foreman, but the description of the foreman really didn't fit Count Olaf. To find out he was disguised as a woman made me chuckle a bit. Then there was the sword fight. If Sunny was real, I would be scared as all get out of this baby. In this book, Sunny (a baby) is having a sword fight with an educated doctor (who barely wins the fight). Oh yes, this one was quite comical. One thing I did notice is that Count Olaf isn't as strong a character in this edition. He seems to play behind the scene moreso than in the forefront. Which is fine, but I think he makes it more of an interesting read. Overall, this isn't one of my favorites in the series. I will continue to read, but this one wasn't as good as the others. Enjoy. Joy.
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Summary: Most humorous of the series
Review: I'm not quite sure why this book struck me as the best of the series (I've only read 2, 3, and 4) but it was exceedingly well done and amusing. The poor Baudelaire orphans who seem to court bad luck at every turn end up living with their distant relative who is a tycoon industrialist who makes them work in his mill. Instead of getting paid, the mill workers get coupons, and they only get one meal a day (but lots of gum for breakfast). Lemony Snicket's books are all wonderful, and this is the cream of the crop. Count Olaf returns in attempt to once again steal the Baudelaire fortune, this time using hypnosis to achieve his evil gains. This book is full of so many clever moments, and the mill setting will scare and entertain the reader.
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Summary: The Miserable Mill
Review: In The Miserable mill Klaus, Violet, and Sunny Badelaire are three siblings who became orphans after their parents died in an accident. They ended up lving and working in a lumber mill in a town called Paltryville, evn though they are young children.
Their foreman at the mill is a mean and horrable man named Mr. Flacutono. The story is basicly about two characters who scheme to steal the kids fortune that their parents left behind when they died. Mr. Flactono and Count Olaf, a man disguised as the town optometrist plan many wats to harm the children. However, the baudelaire children are not just any kids. They are very good at avoiding the trouble lurking behind every log.
This story has some mystery and suspense with a plot that is very easy to follow. In spite of the kids horrid life, they always outsmart their enemys and get away.
I really liked this stoy because even though you know that count olaf is one of the towns people in disguise, you never knew which one he is. It is also just a fun read.
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Summary: Boring and not expectant
Review: Légère petite entorse à la routine habituelle : ce tome 4 laisse planer un suspense quant à savoir où se cache le fameux comte Olaf, l'ennemi juré des enfants Baudelaire. En effet, ce n'est qu'au 3/4 de l'histoire qu'on découvre son déguisement et l'identité qu'il a une nouvelle fois usurpée. Après les mésaventures survenues chez leur tante Agrippine au lac Chaudelarmes, Violette, Klaus et Prunille Baudelaire arrivent avec Mr Poe à La Falotte chez leur nouveau tuteur, au nom imprononçable, on sait juste qu'il est directeur d'une scierie et qu'il se fait appeler M. le directeur. De lui, on n'en saura pas davantage : son visage est sans cesse prisonnier d'un nuage de fumée de cigarette, c'est un homme autoritaire et il communique avec les enfants par note de service. D'ailleurs, il attend des orphelins qu'ils se mettent à la tâche en échange du gîte et du couvert. On découvrira, bien évidemment, que les conditions de vie des enfants vont de mal en pis - mais là repose l'idée facétieuse de l'auteur dans cette série désastreuse ! Bref, "Cauchemar à la scierie" excelle dans le glauque et la poisse. Certains éléments ne tournent pas rond, éveillent les soupçons des jeunes Baudelaire et cette satanée malchance ne les quitte jamais. Dans ce tome 4, il est question d'ophtalmologie, de scierie, de chewing-gums et d'hypnose. On ne s'ennuie pas trop, sauf si l'on regrette certaines longueurs dans l'introduction des Baudelaire aux dures réalités de la vie à la scierie. Autre mise à part : celle de Mr Poe, qu'on ne présente plus tant son inefficacité devient légendaire ! Il est presque à regretter que son personnage loufoque et benêt soit passé au second plan. Ce tome 4 centre son action sur le microcosme que représente la scierie Fleurbon-Laubaine avec ses acteurs hauts en couleur, comme l'associé Charles, l'employé Phil ou le contre-maître MacFool. Autre duo qui se passe de commentaires : la réceptionniste Shirley et le Dr Georgina Orwell. En un mot comme en cent : la série des orphelins Baudelaire s'inscrit dans la durée & dans le dérisoire. Poilant !
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Summary: On line review
Review: The book The miserable mill written by lemony snicket is a gret book. It is filled with unfortunate events about the three Baudelair oriphans. It has been a very bad time for them.Klause sunny and violet (the orphans) have had a hard life. When they were younger they had a perfect life. Yhey would come every day to ther lovely house. With a library for clause because klause loves to read. A science lab for violet because she loves to read, and a lovely little table for sunny to bite on because she loves to bite. But all of that fell down the drain in just a simple minute or two. There was a fire at there mothere and fathers work and that is were we come to now. Science her parents past away they have gone from foster home to foster home. but now they are here at lucky mills lumbermill. It starts off like all the other storys. They feel that Countolaf is gone and write as they began to feel comfortable count olaf strikes.now i can not tell you were or who he is discuised as but i can say you will be suprised.The kids will meet a eye doctor shurly and she is bad. And she takes advantage of them because they have no parents. But like in all the storys the find a way to escape.
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Summary: The bad job
Review: The fourth book in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, THE MISERABLE MILL, begins just like the previous three: with an introduction abounding with wit and humor rarely seen in most children's literature today. Indeed, the witty narrative and humor are (for the most part) just as plentiful in this book as in the previous three.
But in terms of plot and characters, Lemony seems to be running out of steam. The plot twists and happenings in the previous books were always far-fetched but still believable to some degree or another. However, in this book they are simply far-fetched. Also, Count Olaf (this time in drag) came across as far less menacing than in the three previous books.
I will soon be reading the fifth book and expect it to far exceed the quality of this one. I realize that with thirteen books in a series, there's going to be a bad apple or two.
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