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Summary: Wizard of Oz
Review: This book was terrific and magnifico! I love wizardry stories. I can't believe you gave me a chance to read this book. When i thought my luck was down you just pushed it right up. When i was reading this book i sat down with my mummy and a cup of hot choco and she kissed me and said 'i'll buy you the video' I am glad you are listning to my opinion. I think i want a biggg poster of this...
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Summary: A Very Funny Document
Review: Vertiginous Falls Descend through Vast Frigid Domains! Vicious Flies Dart! Villainous Felons Destroy Valuable Fortress! Don't vacillate from despair, though! Various friends drop by, Violet fabricates devices, Klaus's vocabulary fathoms dilemmas, and as for Sonny: View Fine Dentition! In fact, the whole valorous family dexterously vanquishes foul designs.So, does the story come out all right in the end? Vexed. Foggy. Doubtful... This volume provides all the lugubrious fun that all the others do. And the words Volunteer Fire Department are spoken out loud, if I recall correctly, for the first time. (Darn. I felt sure that's what VFD was going to stand for - but now they've trotted it out three whole books of unfortunate events from the end, I must have been wrong. But whatever the mysterious answer turns out to be, I know our young heroes will face it with Virtue, Firmness, and Dignity.)
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Summary: Snicket Does it Again!
Review: This is yet another fine example of Children's Writing. I enjoyed this book. It is full of laughs and surprises. There are more twists and turns in this one than a back country road!
My only problem with this series is at times it gets jumbled and over-wrought, it's almost as if you can see Mr. Snicket trying desperately to put the "brakes on" before he gives away too much. We all know they are trying to squeeze this story into 13 volumes.... (I believe) and I'm sure he doesn't want to give the store away too soon.
At times the discussion of certain actions and events go a little too far. As if he is trying to squeeze more out of a storyline than what is really their. At times it goes too far. But not too terribly far!
Mr. Snicket has truly, put a fanciful and wonderfully "Dreadful" world together for these three endearing orphans. As I have stated before you can't be sure whether to laugh or cry for these children.
I enjoy the wry, dry wit employed in this series. I also believe the little revelations that Snicket gives us into his own fictional life are brilliant! The whole world of Lemony Snicket is truly intricate and engrossing.
I just picked up his unauthorized autobiography and can't wait to crack it open. The more you learn about his "persona's" connection to the series, the more you want to know.
In The Slippery Slope we meet up with Klaus, Violet and Sunny once again and get to share in their misery. They have continued to be in and out of the clutches of Count Olaf and his motley crew of cronies.
The story is progressing well and ends with yet another "cliff hanger"... (So to Speak)
This series is worth your time. The books read like a runaway freight train.... and you will fly through them.
Adults and Children alike will find more than enough entertainment in these pages... Enjoy!
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Summary: The best book in the world!
Review: This book is great. Lemoney snicket makes the story really funny and smart and clever. It's alot like harry potter because no happy things happen. But no magic will be involed. It in my opinoun is the best lemoney snicket book yet.
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Summary: A much-needed, albeit subtle, change in style
Review: Reading through the other reviews for this book, there seems to be a common complaint that the latest installment in the "Unfortunate Events" series has not lived up to readers' expectations. I actually found the book very absorbing, and I appreciated the small changes the author had made to his writing style and the book's structure. Although the series is known for its stream of depressing events and its dark humour, when I read the books in the series back-to-back I get very sick of my heart dropping lower and lower and the twist in my stomach getting increasingly tighter as the Baudelaire orphans experience disappointment after disappointment. Reading the series becomes almost painful. It also becomes very frustrating when no mysteries are solved and apparent clues lead to dead ends again and again. The novelty only lasts for so long. I feel that in this book, the author FINALLY moved away from this predictable structure and instilled some hope back into readers, and thus some interest back into the story. Yet he did not abandon the writing style that makes this series so loved. The same funny definitions and word games, and the author's uniquely despondent writing style, still liven up the story. I particularly loved the Snow Scouts Slogan and, as usual, Esmé Squalor's antics. One criticism I have, though, is that although this book was much longer than those that came before it, I think less actually HAPPENED. The characters pretty much remained in the same situation throughout the tale. This is similar to the Harry Potter books, which get increasingly longer as they get increasingly popular, yet the added length is only due to a more long-winded writing style, which makes reading the later books in the series more tedious.
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Summary: Lemony Snicket is "in"
Review: As an adult Lemony Snicket fan, and having read the entire series so far, I have to rate this one as very good, but not excellent. The usual word play and dire situations are as imaginative as ever, and the VFD clues are brilliant. The Esme character is even more colorful than usual, but the ending leaves you high, dry and hunting for more. Dark, entertaining and frustratingly good.
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Summary: my interest in the book was SLIPPING chapter by chapter
Review: As an ardent fan of A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, I have to do the unusual thing and rate this only 3 stars out of 5. Perhaps it is because I am an adult reader, and not of the 9-12 age group, for whom these books were originally intended. While I have enjoyed the other 9 books for the most part, with only one other book in the series coming up short on quality, THE SLIPPERY SLOPE has the distinction of falling short of my usual expectations. At some 330-plus pages, it is entirely too long and too repetitive. Though the author has made good use of his device of explaining unusual vocabulary, or detailing a character's inner thoughts, or assessing a situation in his usual droll manner, too many pages are taken up with recycling similiar events, thoughts and dialogues between the characters. LABORIOUS would be a good word for young readers to use and understand when reading this installment. Laborious would describe my efforts at finishing the book. The only humorous moments are those when Esme Squalor is busy telling everyone what is "in or out" and what she is craving at that moment. She adds a sense of fun and frivolity to what is otherwise a very tedious (which here means not very interesting) episode in what is said to be a 13-part story.
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Summary: must have book
Review: this is an amazing book and a must have for all lemony snicket lovers. i think that this is the best book in the seris. it is at the op of my favorite book list. this is an easy read and i read it in ne day. i could not put it down it was so good. this book answers some of those questions you have been dying to have answered. make sure you get this book you will be glad that you did!
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Summary: Come Travel a Road Less Traveled
Review: A Review by Josie Starting from where the ninth book ended, The Slippery Slope starts with Violet and Klaus are separated from Sunny. Through out this book, the children get attacked by snow gnats and run into a group of kids celebrating False Spring, led by a person they never thought they see again. Also they see many more fires and come to a point where they must fight fire with fire. They also travel many roads that are less traveled and find out secrets to questions they been asking for months Also they find a surprising person who made it out of a fire alive. I liked how this book answered the questions that I have been wondering for years. I also liked how it was very descriptive about things like the snow gnats. The book also involved things from other books and poems like the "Road Less Traveled." Also how it showed things from the first nine books so you remember some of the things that the children want through. The three main characters are very descriptive and from the book you can tell a lot about them. Like each of their different talents and things they do well. The children are like normal children put in strange spots and I like that I can relate to them. I think it was a great book and if you liked the other nine books you will love this one. It's a great book for people who like funny and dark books. I would not suggest this book if you don't like a bit of a sad story.
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Summary: Don't Throw This Book Into A Deep Pit!
Review: There are many things you could do with The Slippery Slope. You could substitute it for an umbrella to keep from getting soaked during a rainstorm, you could use it as a doorstop when another not-round object can't be found, I suppose you might be able to use it as a fan, but that might not work very well, you could read it but why you would want to do that is beyond me, or you could just not buy it at all. I'd recommend the second to last thing. The Slippery Slope is wit beyond wit. It's great! In the tenth book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are at The Mortmain Mountains where fierce snow gnats live and a headquarters of a very secret orginization is rumored to be. Oh, yeah, there's also a group called the Snow Scouts who harvest some familar faces and just don't seem to realize that nobody can be xylaphone. A frozen waterfall, a very "fiery" dress, and V.F.D (maybe you actually find out what it stands for)! also come into play. The whole series is great. Mr. Snicket is probably one of the wittiest authors out there. Oh, what an unfortunate day it will be when the last book is consumed by the readers. Sigh. If you haven't read this series yet then what are you waiting for? I suppose you don't want a treat to read. Then again, maybe you shouldn't click the "add to cart" button, the title of the series really does just say it all (just kidding)! The situations may be unfortunate but the humor is priceless.
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