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Summary: Teaching with Bad Beginnings
Review: I taught Bad Beginnings to a 6th grade class last year. They become completely addicted, and we ended up reading the entire series throughout the course of the year. Not only is the series fast-paced and written to be a "cliff-hanger", from a teacher's standpoint, it is an excellent way to introduce new vocabulary in a painless manner. The books also provide an excellent source of discussion about character traits, and literary "tricks", like the way L. Snicket uses descriptive words as place names. All in all, I would highly recommend this book, as well as the others in the series.
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Summary: excellent
Review: the series of unfortunate events is the best series! I love the adventure and mystery of the series. i recomend this book to fun adventure lovers!
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Summary: Never Give Up
Review: A Review by BritniThe Bad Beginning is a book about three young children. They live in a smelly, dirty and very busy city. The Baudelaire's lived in a very large mansion in the middle of the city. They seem to have a perfect life until something bad happens, and everything goes downhill from there. This story is mainly about their lives and all the un-normal things these children go through, but they always figure out a solution to their problems. The children stick together through thick and thin. In the end everything seems to work out for the better.
Through this story there were many things I liked. I really liked how the author gave good descriptions of the characters; I thought it really helped to understand the story. This book kept me in suspense, which I really liked. For example: one part in the story when it seemed like everything was going good for them something bad or just surprising happened. This just made me want to keep reading so I could know what happened next. This story was very easy to understand. For example: If there was ever a confusing word, the author would define it for you so you could understand it. The whole book stayed at a steady pace and was easy to follow.
I personally really liked this book. I think that anyone who likes fiction/ adventure stories then this is a book for you. I would suggest this to anyone at a medium reading level from grades 8 and up. Hope you enjoy this book!
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Summary: The first bad thing
Review: This book was a good one. It was by Lemony Snicket. It was called ,The Bad Beginning book one of the Series of Unfortunate Events. I would give this book five stars because it had lots of action. It was about three kids named Violet, Klause and Sunny, who become orphans because their parents died in a mansion fire. They lost everything. Now they have to go and live with their great "Count Olaf." Will Violet, Klause, and Sunny live? Find out in The Bad Beginning and the rest of this great series.
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Summary: A very good read
Review: I went back and forth about whether I should get this book to read with my 7 year old second grader. I kept telling myself I should wait till she was older, but found the book at a good price, so I bought it. I worried it would be too depressing and scary for her, but it did not turn out that way at all. The book is written from a narrators point of view, so the personal feelings of the characters are never fully exposed and explored. You know that the three orphans are sad about their parents death, but the book doesn't wallow in their grief and make it painful to read. If you can imagine Vincent Price reading the book, that tends to make it a little more lighthearted. The bad guy of the book, Count Olaf, is an awful brute who is outright cruel to the children at times, but again the book doesn't have the children suffering without end. Instead it makes them more resilient to foil the Counts plans and triumph over him. My daughter was EAGER to read these books. That was the best thing about it all. We have tried classics, Pippi Longstocking, Island of the Blue Dolphins, Charlottes Web, but as great as they are, they lack The Bad Beginnings level of excitement, mystery and wondering what will happen next. I enjoyed the book myself and will continue to read the rest of the series, in hopes they are as entertaining as this one. I can see if you have a very sensitive child, this would not be the book for them until they are older. Some kids my daughters age are scared of Harry Potter movies, so this book would be too much for them. If your youngster isn't living in a sheltered world where everything is wonderful and bad things don't happen, and they can understand the difference between a made up story and a real one, then they just might enjoy this new type of childrens adventure stories.
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Summary: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Review: The unfortunate events books are exciting sad and unexpecting its about three happy intelligent children who face alot of unlucky happenings which are full of misery and despair, which never seem to end.
The siblings of the bauderlaire family are, Violet baudelaire, the eldest and the inventer of the family, Klaus, a boy who loves reading books and learning and sunny the smallest of the three, who loves biting and chewing things. These three young children are are also very pleasant and charming.
These children are very 'Unfortunate' children as they start off being told there mother and father had dyed in a horrific fire and thy had to go to one of there relative wo wants to steal the baudelaire fortune. This horrible crook and his henchmen are following the baudelaires everywhere determened to get what they want.
This is my third favourite book
Because, as i've said just before its unexpectingly sad. And its also very exciting. This is a well written book that i would suggest reading for mostly everyone.
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Summary: Sad , Depressing , and Entertaining!
Review: This is a book about three young children Violet,Klaus, and Sunny whose parents die in a fire, there mantion is burnt to the ground.So they have to go livewith there only living relative Count Olaf.I liked it because the Baudelaire children are desperately trying to make their lives the way they want them to be, but Count Olaf kind of turns that hope down. Let's just say he is not the kind of relative you would like to have as the only living one. So that sort of makes their lives even worse than it already is. The effort in this book is amazing, and tragic. But it is still one of the best books I have ever read. If you like this book, you like depressing things. That doesn't mean don't read it. I'd just say it's the best.
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Summary: greatist book
Review: My Amozon Review: Lemony Snicket has made a great start to an astonishing line of spell binding books. "The bad beginning" in my opinion is one of the greatest books I have read. The book begins at a beach in New England where three children named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. They found out that there house perished in a fire and along with their parents. A family friend helps them along the way to a new life and a new family. But bad luck keeps following them wherever they go. At the first house they meet count olf. He is a scheming man with a hankering for the Baudelaire children's fortune at any cost! The details Lemony Snicket uses in the story make you feel the emotions that the Baudelaire children are going through. Count Olaf is nasty in more ways then one! Count Olaf treats the children like scum and makes them do all of his chores and some that he doesn't need done. Count Olaf is abusive to the children and even makes them cook dinner. Snicket has done a smashing job by writing this book and expressing the emotions of his characters and this book is a must read!
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Summary: mmmhmmm
Review: i am, and have been a pretty devoted fan to the series....i've read 1-9...and was unaware that 10 had already hit book stores, but nonetheless, i think this is a great book for young children. lemony snickett tells his stories in such a deep, strong tone, one can't help but find his style humorous. i believe that this book is for younger children, but it is an enjoyable read to a person of any age.
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Summary: Appropriate for young readers? Certainly.
Review: Other reviewers have questioned the suitability of this book for young readers; the purpose of my review is to offer an alternative opinion to those who think it unsuitable. Most of the adults are portrayed in these books as villainous or insensitive, though there are exceptions (eg. Justice Strauss in the first book). And this indeed is the crucial point: it is the children, by themselves, who are the heroes of these books. The author taps into the too-frequent reality of the world, which is that many children are often stuck in unfortunate situations, at the hands of cruel or simply uncaring adults (a very Dickensian motif). If the reader desires to find a moral in the story, let it be that children are truly resouceful, and their individuality and perceptiveness often overlooked by condenscending adults. It is the author's refusal to sugar-coat reality that makes these books truly valuable for young readers; for, in the end (though the endings are not overtly "happy") the children do inevitably avert the looming catastrophe. It is true that these books are dark, but not unnecessarily so.
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