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Summary: Three more books to go?
Review: Obviously, I can only add to the glowing reviews that this book has already received. I will not contradict - a word which here means "tell these people that they're opinions are as useless as infant slavery" - the prior reviews as I am in total agreement with them.What I want to add is that the writing style transports me back to those days when I was a child trying to come to grips with how adults behaved. To a kid things are simple and clear, and yet the actions and motivations of adults are cryptic. And in this, Lemony Snicket has (over the course of 10 books so far) taken us most of the way through the journey of enlightenment for three young orphans. The virtues demonstrated by the protagonists are uncompromising and serve as a splendid example of how to live your life in the face of so much uncontrollable disaster. As with the greeks and forever more, tragedy is the highest form of art. This is the most enjoyable series I have ever read, children's or otherwise. And is the rumor true, that as there are 13 chapters per book, that there will be 13 books in the series? The clues are everywhere.
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Summary: Funny and Witty
Review: This fantastic novel grabs the reader in a whirl of excitment and adventure from page one. In this book, the three orphans must face a swarm of snow gnats, an annoying group of snow scouts who can't think of an adjective for x, and a fashionable woman dressed like a fire, sledding down a frozen waterfall.
This may sound strange, but Lemony Snicket's books are all about strange. I highly suggest this book to anyone. Some may think the series bad at first, but, if you keep on reading, you will understand Mr. Snicket's powerful writing.
However, start with book one, The Bad Beginning, before reading this.
By the way, the clue for book eleven is: "Many individuals have the same initials which can lead to much injustice."
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Summary: Best of the Series!!!!!!!
Review: I got this book the day after it came out, and i must say I couldn't put it down. I read it in 3 days flat. It's 300-something pages and very thrilling and at the end leaves you hanging. If you liked the other books in the series, you'll LOVE this one!!!
PS Have you noticed all the books have thirteen chapters? Hmm...
PPS This is the best!!
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Summary: Buy this book, however much its possession may imperil you
Review: *The Slippery Slope* is the latest installment--the tenth thirteen-chaptered book in a series that will eventually comprise thirteen books--in Lemony Snicket's *Series of Unfortunate Events.* The books are the product of Snicket's tireless research into the wretched lives of the three Baudelaire orphans, fourteen-year-old Violet, an inventor, her well-read brother Klaus, and their preternaturally accomplished baby sister Sunny. The siblings are orphaned in the first book in the series: as they are later informed by the apparently well-meaning but ineffectual Mr. Poe, the executor of their parents' considerable estate, a terrible fire consumes the children's home one day while they are off at the beach. The circumstances of the fire are, one must conclude, highly suspicious. Mr. Poe's efforts to place the siblings with a guardian land them first in the squalid home of a distant relative, a uni-browed actor by the name of Count Olaf, who begins scheming at once to make off with the Baudelaire fortune. Olaf's villainous activity continues throughout the series and very often involves his employment of outlandish disguises which no one but the Baudelaires is capable of seeing through. ("Some people called this man wicked. Some called him facinorous, which is a fancy word for 'wicked.' But everyone called him Count Olaf, unless he was wearing one of his ridiculous disguises and making people call him a false name.") As Olaf's girlfriend puts it in *The Slippery Slope*, "money and personal satisfaction" make Olaf's relentless efforts to seize the Baudelaires' fortune worth the trouble: "Once we have our hands on the Baudelaire fortune, we'll have enough money to live a life of luxury and plan several more treacherous schemes!" Olaf's villainy is a constant throughout the series, and so is the author's linguistic playfulness--his clever aphorisms ("Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck") ; his amusing verbal tics ("a phrase which here means..."). There are also hints throughout the series about the enigmatic, rarely photographed Snicket's curious life. References to his "pulling aside a bearskin rug in order to access a hidden trapdoor in the floor", for example, or to spending months on a mountain with "only a lantern and a rhyming dictionary for company" slip into the narrative. Snicket is evidently on the run--from whom it is not clear--and so he wisely employs as his legal, literary, and social representative a certain Daniel Handler, who is himself, as coincidence would have it, the author of novels for adults. I should confess that I am half in love with Mr. Snicket, and I would pledge myself to him eternally were it not for a previous commitment of my own and Lemony's apparent devotion to the deceased Beatrice, to whom he dedicates each of his books (for example, "To Beatrice--darling, dearest, dead"). But I *can* pledge myself to the task of promoting his research into the Baudelaires' lives, and urge you to buy Snicket's books, however filled with horrors they may be, and however much your possession of them may imperil you.
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Summary: A sprawling, complicated series gets a little more so.
Review: The Slippery Slope is a great novel. I could not put it down from page 1. In the beginning, Violet and Klaus struggle to survive in a trailer gone insane. What follows is a frantic race to reach Sunny and the HQ of VFD in time. ...
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Summary: Slippery Slope
Review: The slippery slope(Book the Tenth) is probably one of the best books out of the series of unfortunate events. I do have to admit that at the end it doesn't answer all your questions and leaves you with new mysteries. There are a lot of suprising parts in this book and I bet you anything that there is going to be another book coming out soon. This book is worth every penny and is great I read it in less than a month and it is the longest book out of the series so far.
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Summary: V.F.D. WARNING MINOR SPOILERS
Review: The book starts where #9 left off. Klaus and Violet are in the Mortmain Mountains in the Carnival Carivan. Sunny is with Count Olaf since one of his new troupe members kidnapped her. Violet and Klaus struggle to find their sister and find out what V.F.D. stands for. Also they meet lots of more people and the survivor of the terriable fire. I RECOMEND THIS BOOK FOR THE YOUNG AND OLD! This is a fantastic book with MANY surprises and secrets!!!!
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Summary: AWESOME!!!!
Review: this book is accommodating, basic, calm, darling, emblematic, frisky, grinning, human, innocent, jumping, kept, limited, meek, nap-loving, official, pretty, quarantined, recent, scheduled, tidy, understandable, victorious, wholesome, xylophone, young, and zippered--every morning, every afternoon, every night, and all day long! It is also the greatest book in the world, and a whopping 337 pages long (I know it's good, because I couldn't put the book down and read the book over a course of 2 days). Anyways, read it!
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Summary: What is a busheney?
Review: The absolute best part of this book is the evolution of Sunny from a rope-chewing baby into a gourmet cook whose deft one-word insults not only land undetected by villains but also on certain politicians in real life. Check out page 107 for the definition of "busheney"! I would love to make a list of the great words coined by Sunny in this book; it makes all the other characters seem dull.Count Olaf doesn't wear any disguises. Violet's inventions are predictable. Most of the brainpower is supplied by Quigley Quagmire, not Klaus.
And I heartily applaud the return of Carmelita from the "Austere Academy". She will have some great scenes in the next installment now that she has joined Esme and Count Olaf. Cakesniffers!!
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Summary: Very Fascinting Developments
Review: A Baudelaire child does everything for goons. Heeding infant's judgement, Klaus leaves mole near Olaf. Pair quickly rescues sibling to undo villinously woven xylophone yarn zippily.
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