The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 11)

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The Grim Grotto is the eleventh installment in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. All the usual characters, Klaus, Sunny, Violet, Olaf and his troupe are back. There are two new characters, Fiona and Captain Widdershins and an old friend, Phil, too. After the orphans go down a river on a toboggan a submarine picks them up. In the sub they meet Captain Widdershins, Fiona and their old friend Phil. They learn more about the V.F.D. (the captin happens to be associated with them) and the sub's crew. Then there is a possible breakthrough on the V.F.D. and they want to check it out. This is an excellent book with lots of new information, but I highly recommend reading one through ten in order before reading this, if you haven't already.

William L.


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Summary: An excellent book!
Review: I personally loved this book. I am a huge fan of Lemony Snicket's writing, and this book brought hidden mysteries into my veiw that were hidden in the rest of his series, disguised as a simple comment from a charecter or something as simple as a sugar bowl. If you love mystery, excitement, and the feeling to read on, then I recommend this book, and the rest of the Unfortunate Events series, for that matter. This book is appealing to all ages, whether you be 13 or 35.

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Summary: So Good!!
Review: I am such a fan of Lemony Snicket! He's a very charming writer, and The Grim Grotto lives up to the standards of books 1-10. I bought it the night it came out, and finished it in a couple of hours, I just never put it down.

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Summary: My Favorite in the WHOLE Series!
Review: I have been tearing through these books since I first found the first one a few years ago. They are seriously the most hilarious/heart-breaking books I have ever read. Though I personally enjoyed the story-lines of the first nin the best, this book is just as brilliant in whit.

For those who haven't already read books one to ten I waould not suggest starting here. I had to re-read the tenth, which I had read the year before, just to get through the first chapter. I have a bad memory with books and usually have to read all my favourites at least three times just to remember the names of the main characters. However, the names in this book are too memorable to forget.

This series tells the story of the three Beaudelaire siblings, Sunny, an infant who enjoys biting and, in this book and the last two, cooking, Violet, a fourtenen-year-old who turns fifteen in this book who enjoys inventing, and Klaus, a thirteen-year-old who likes to read and research. After the death of their parents in a dreadful fire, the three have been fleeing the dastardly Count Olaf who is trying to steal the enormous fortune their parents left behind. During their tragic adventures, they come across the mysterious letters V. F. D. and strive to discover their meaning. In this book they encounter many submarines, mushrooms, traitors, desperate cries for help, and their friend's long lost brother.

This book, the Grim Grotto, is not my favourite because it, and the tenth, do not have as much plot to them as the others. I also enjoyed the siblings desperatly trying to unmask the villain and in this one and the ninth and tenth there is none of that. however, this one is just as funny as the rest.

If you enjoys falling of your bed, sofa, easy-chair or mountain-top with laughter than these books are for you.

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Summary: A real page turner
Review: I have read all but the 11th..I can't wait!!!Got to have it Lemoney! One of the summer's hottest hits!!!If the best you can get is a ''Double U'',this would be a ''triple U''!!

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Summary: A series of great books
Review: I have read every book in this series. Each one got better and better. Now I just read the 11th book and I was still astonished on how it can keep getting better? Thats what I wonder! I hope they keep the chain going because I will buy each and every book as long as they do!

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Summary: A wonderful example of a wonderful book.
Review: I read this,well actually I'm halfway through reading it. But I feel somewhat compelled to tell everyone how I felt about this book. I think it's excellent and the way they tie the sugar bowl, Count Olaf, and the Queqeg all into one book is amazing. I was shocked at how superb the characters were designed, from Captain Widdershins, who always talks nonsense, to Phil who's nickname is Cookie for no apparent reason. Count Olaf is as mysterious as ever, and I don't want to give anything away, but I'm just saying You'll love this book. Trust me, if you are a Lemony Snicket fan, this is the ultimate book for you and you will thoroughly enjoy it as I did. Heck, even if you hate these books, this charming sequel in the series is sure to wrap you up reading for hours, just to know what happens next. This book is truly a winner! Enjoy!

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Summary: Best books in the entire world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Ok first I must say that I love the Lemony Snicket books. They are the best books I have ever read and although I haven't read this one yet, I will still give it 5 stars. I am thrilled at every mysterious page and wonder what Count Olaf will do next. But, I need to add that I was dissapointed in the movie, as it didn't follow the books and the train part NEVER WAS WRITTEN!!!!!!!!! But the books are superb and I recomend them to everyone from 3 to 333 yrs. old!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Summary: THe Grim Grotto
Review: This book is destined to be great! I have read 1-10, and I've been dying to read this book. I can't wait to read this one, or the 12th, or the 13th! I have to find out what happens to Quigley, Violet, Klaus, Sunny, Count Olaf, Ducan and Isadora.

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Summary: ummmmmmmmmmm
Review: Well, I've reached the end of the line for the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" books, and I need to wait until September for the next one to come out. To recap, the three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, have sadly been through a series of some of the most unfortunate events ever to occur to a trio of intelligent children. Violet, who is now 15 years old, is a master inventor who can use almost anything at her fingertips to build amazing machines that can be used for a variety of purposes, including helping herself and her siblings get out of some rather nasty predicaments. The now-13-year-old Klaus is an extremely intelligent researcher, who loves to read and can remember everything he picks up in a book. These skills constantly come in handy when the children are forced to figure out tough mysteries and problems in very short amounts of time. And finally, Sunny, who has recently grown out of infanthood, has been endowed with extremely sharp teeth that allow her to bite her way out of many troubling situations. Lately, she has been developing impressive culinary skills as well.
After receiving some very troubling news about a terrible fire that killed their parents, the three children were sent to live with an obscure relative named Count Olaf. Olaf was a terrible guardian who tried to steal the Baudelaire family fortune that the children had inherited. After trying to marry (yes, marry!) Violet in order to get the money, the children moved in with their loving uncle. Sadly, Olaf appeared in disguise and once again tried to get his hands on the Baudelaire fortune.
This went on for a while until the children were sent to a strict boarding school where they met Duncan and Isadora Quagmire, two of three triplets who also lost their wealthy parents and their brother Quigley, the third triplet, in a terrible fire. Like the Baudelaires, the Quagmires each had their own special skills. Duncan was a journalist, Isadora was a poet, and Quigley, before the fire, was a cartographer. The children became fast friends, until Olaf was able to capture the Quagmires. Right before he took them away though, they were able to tell the Baudelaires about something they needed to find with the initials V.F.D.
Eventually, the three children were able to save their friends, but at the same time, Olaf was able to frame the siblings for murder, and the Baudelaires were forced to flee from the police to a hospital in the middle of nowhere. Once there, they discovered many more secrets regarding V.F.D., which they learned was a secret society. After escaping the hospital, which had been set on fire by Olaf, the children were forced to go into disguise as carnival freaks in order to learn more about V.F.D. from Olaf and his crew. There they learned about an important sugar bowl that Olaf needed to find, and later, they had to assist Olaf in burning down the carnival in order to maintain their disguises. Sadly, Olaf discovered them, kidnapped Sunny, and sent Violet and Klaus careening down a snowy mountain in a runaway caravan. The siblings survived and found out that Quigley was in fact still alive. Violet, Klaus, and Quigley were able to rescue Sunny, find out the last safe place that V.F.D. would go, and escape Olaf yet again. And this is where The Grim Grotto begins.
The Baudelaires, after being seperated from Quigley, the Baudelaires are found by a V.F.D. submarine captained by a man named Widdershins, and crewed by his step-daughter Fiona and Phil the Optimist from the Lucky Smells Lumbermill. They embark on a mission to recover the sugar bowl before Olaf and the crew of the Carmelita (Olaf's sub named after the bratty Carmelita Spats) do. Along the way, we learn some family history of one of Olaf's associates which turns out to come back to hurt the Baudelaires and Fiona.
This is one of the best books yet in the series (although I'm still going with the fact that The Hostile Hospital is the best). Throughout the last few books, the Baudelaires have been wondering about whether or not they themselves have been turning into villains themselves because they have been disguising themselves, they participated in arson, and they considered trapping Esme Squalor in order to participate in a prisoner exchange to get Sunny back. In this book, the shades of gray get even grayer. When Sunny is poisoned by some mushrooms that will kill her within the hour, they have to consider allowing her to die in order to preserve the greater good. They also are forced to come to terms with the fact that even the people "noble" side of the V.F.D. schism have bad qualities to them, even their parents.
The stakes continue to get raised, as Olaf's troupe has now grown to a number big enough to crew an enormous submarine while V.F.D. struggles to remain a force for them to reckon with. Amazingly, even though things are still dire at the end, Snicket is able to leave us with a small note of hope while we wait until the next book is released.