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Summary: Best book in the series
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If you liked the first nine books in the series, then you will love this one. This book takes place in the Mortime Moutains. This book reveals some of the secrets of V.F.D, including the many things it stands for. I was also very excited as well as shocked to find out that the third Quagmire triplet is alive! We also find out that the last safe place is Hotel Denouement.
This series is my favorite series after Harry Potter, and I can't wait for the eleventh book to come. Also in case you are wondering the movie on the bad beggining comes out in September or October.( I can't imagine that they could do a movie on all the soon to be thirteen books. That would take forever.)
****you should read the first nine books in the series before you read tis book, otherwise you won't be able to fuly enjoy this book****
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Summary: Snicket does it again
Review: You would think that by the tenth book this series would start to get old, but it just keeps getting better and better. Like King Fortis the Brave, Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl, the Unfortunate Events series is fast becoming a modern classic.
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Summary: Another book in a great series.
Review: Before, I didn't like the people who said things like,'The Baudelaires are the unluckiest kids in the world! Hilarious!' when they described the books. True, the books were funny. But the main plot was that Daniel Handler was sick of happy endings, and created these wonderfully odd and engaging stories. In the latest book, it comes as close as possible to the quote above (which I am paraphrasing from an actual summary) as possible. You've got all the classics: vocabulary lessons, sadness, mystery (combined with the unauthorized autiobiography, you can spend hours analysing the series-but you still can be surprised, I was utterly shocked at a not-so-new character that appeared), and yes I admit it, there is a lot of humor. I particularily liked the part about the strawberry-crazed, stick-carrying maniac *laughs* But there is also some new stuff. The book deals with some serious issues (and I don't mean dark issues like death, that has been around since book one) like the worries that the Baudelaire's had of them being villains, or that fact that Sunny is more grown up, that make for an interesting read that makes you think and is somehow sadder then the normal unluckiness of the Baudelaires. This is the first book in which the Baudelaire's are seperated and (as cliched and oxymoron like as this sounds, I normally loathe to do oxymorons) it is both sadder then most books yet lightened by more humor. (This is probably due to the fact that the book is over 300 pages long, but any Lemony Snicket or Harry Potter fan will be able to zip through and still want to log online and chat about the new clues you have found out. There are also some new characters (SPOILER! Even a romance in which Lemony tortures his fans by choosing just then to 'give Violet some privacy' >:( :P END OF SPOILER!), old favorites, and a lot of new information on VFD. All in all, this is a great book with both humor and sadness and tantalising clues about VFD, and I highly recommend it to both Lemony Snicket fans and people who just want to know if the books are as good as people say they are. (hint: they are, although I imagine that some people may find them a bit repetative-I don't, but some people might) I'm already wating eagerly for the next book.
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Summary: The latest book in an already memorable series!!!
Review: Lemony Snicket shows once again that he is not only a emotionally harmed person, but also a exellent author. There are only a couple more books left. Like everything having to do with his books there will be 13. There are also 13 chapters in every book.This is because the three children are the three most unlucky children in the world. Their parents die, they get a evil gaurdian who wants to steal their fortune. This man keeps on chasing them and he will not stop until he has their fourtune. Yet now, Sunny (the yougest Baudelaire)is kidnapped by Count Olaf (the villain). So now the plot is so deep that you can't just pick up this book and understand it. Yet if you start reading this and the other books, the only thing you'll be dissapointed about is the sad story of the Baudelaire's sad life. It will keep us all guessing about how it will end.
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Summary: Ryan Mullett
Review: This book is a very good book about the Baudelaire children. In this book the two older baudelaires must get their sister back from the clutches of Count Olaf. As they get through the mountains they encouter many odd things. Some of them are frozen waterfalls, snow gnats and snow scouts. The setting is the Mortmain Mountains. Here there are caves, rivers and flat mountain peaks. This book is a very good book for anyone who is looking for something exciting to read.
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Summary: Begins where the last left off
Review: Fans of Lemony Snicket will find this latest addition to the 'Series of Unfortunate Events' titles to be equally compelling. The Slippery Slope begins where the last left off, so familiarity with the previous titles in the series is recommended for a smooth transition to this continuation, which tells of two orphans who struggle to find their kidnapped baby sister. New abilities and talents must come into play during the rescue in this moving story.
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Summary: The Slippery Slope
Review: The Kids are great in these books. Very Fun Books to read, and they don't get boring before the end.
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Summary: The Slippery Slope Book Review
Review: The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events book 10)
By: Snicket, Lemony
Reviewed by: J. Lee
Period: 1
This book is about a sister and her brother who tries to save their younger sister from Count Olaf, a villain. Sunny, their younger sister, secretly spies on Count Olaf and his followers, while she is with them, to see what they're up to. When Violet and Klaus find out where the villains are taking their sister, they have to make a plan to stop them. They find out that they are heading up the Mortmain Mountains to burn down the secret location of the secret V.F.D. hideout. On the way to the V.F.D. hideout, Violet and Klaus encounter Quigley Quagmire, who is the "lost" brother of the Quagmire triplets. He helps them find Count Olaf and solve a lot of mysteries about their parents. All of the children rescue Sunny and get away from Count Olaf in time without being thrown off the mountaintop. I like this book a lot because it has a lot of mysteries and adventure in it. It was fun finding out where the secret clues were kept and figuring out couples that were written by Quigley's sister. They used all these clues to find out more information about their parents. They figured out that Count Olaf needed to know about the sugar bowl and they figured out where it was but they didn't tell count Olaf. " But why would they keep it a secret?" Violet asked. "And why would they have a secret passageway underneath the house?" page 167. "Jacques said that the passageways were built by members of the organization," Quigley said. " In the case of an emergency, they could escape to a safe place." Page 167. These two quotes show how Quigley explained to them a V.F.D. secret to the siblings. They show how the characters are finding out secrets from Quigley. My favorite part of this book was when they found out that Quigley Quagmire was alive. They were so happy for once and relieved that he was helping them. Figuring out what had happened to him at the Quagmire fire and at the V.F.D. headquarters was the best parts in the book.
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Summary: Great Read
Review: I love these books, fun to read, wild characters, fantastic art work! What more does anyone need for an enjoyable afternoon.
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Summary: Mystery of VFD ...
Review: In the previous episode of this tragic series, we were left at an excellent cliffhanger where Violet and Klaus Baudalaire were speeding down the Mortmain Mountains, while Sunny, the youngest of the three children, was left with the evil madman, count Olaf, traveling in the opposite direction. If you haven't read this series, then you will not know about any of this. I strongly suggest you put down this book at once and go search for a happier story about flying children who prance around finding a large amount of gold or silver. This story takes place in the Mortmain Mountains where Violet and Klaus are about to be killed from the drop that the House of Freaks caravan was about to experience. Violet and Klaus are forced to walk along the snowy path, attempting to keep up with their baby sister Sunny. Suddenly they stumble across a flock of snow gnats, which enjoy stinging innocent civilians for pleasure. Klaus does some quick thinking and wraps an oversized coat around himself and Violet, to protect them from the snow gnats. While trying to figure out the mystery of V.F.D., they find Quigley Quagmire, their best friends' brother, who supposedly died in a fire. The next thing they know they are face to face with Count Olaf, trying to rescue their baby sister Sunny. Despite the first paragraph, this series has excellent detail (such as when they are climbing a huge mountain with forks attached to their feet), which is added to an excellent plot, for a great story. You will also find a bit of humor snuck into certain parts to make the story even better. The mystery behind the many secrets of V.F.D. gives it a taste of fun, similar to books where you try to solve many mysteries, which leads up to a bigger mystery at the end. This book, so far, is probably the best in the series. I love it!
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