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Summary: The Reality Book
Review: These books are some of the most interesting books i've read. They clue in on reality and it reads about things that go on in life but put into a way that is interesting and twisted around so it seems like a tale because it has been twisted around with and alot of the stuff and most of it is make-believe. These books are so addictive i mean you read one and you like have to read the others. Most children will be shocked at parts of the book but its only a book and it teaches them a little of reality so it is like a sort of reality learning experience. I encourage children to read these books.
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Summary: Very predictable
Review: The Baudelaire children's (Violet, Klaus, and Sunny) lives take a horrible turn when they receive the news that their parents have just died in a house fire. Sent to live with a distant relative, Count Olaf, they find themselves horribly mistreated. Their new guardian cares only about the fortune they possess, and treats them like slaves. Finding little or no help from other sources, the children know they have to do something- before they lose more than just their fortunes...I didn't like this book at all. From the beginning, the author goes on and on about how this book is depressing and you shouldn't read it, (the book would be about ten pages shorter without him saying that all the time) which really gets annoying, and every other page he defines words for you, like you're too ignorant to figure them out for yourself. Mr. Poe, the man in charge of finding them a home, is so gullible it's absolutely inhuman, and the characters are very shallow. They have their materialistic strengths and weaknesses (Violet's good at inventing things, Klaus at thinking about things, Sunny biting things) but nothing under the surface that makes them special.
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Summary: I didn't find it all that funny, but I could relate
Review: The first installment in A Series of Unfortunate Events books truly is a series of unfortunate events. I had received this book as a gift from my then-girlfriend for Valentine's Day. I never did touch it up until now, shortly after we had a sad, but manageanble break up. I found the events of the Baudelaire siblings very similar to the issue of abuse, albeit in a strained form of subtle humor. The story begins on a dreary day, which is usually how tales of such sorts begin. Mr. Poe, the executor at the bank of the Baudelaire estate, approaches the three Baudelaire children, Klaus, Violet, and Sunny and tells them their parents die. He puts them in the charge of Count Olaf, a menacing distant relative who is an actor in a theater troupe. Olaf is cruel to the orphans, making them do extraneous chores, gives them only one bed, rocks to play with, and a curtain. He adds further to the paranoia by decorating his abode with carved eyes all over the place, reminding the children he is always watching them. He plans to do all he can to weasel their estate and use it for his own purposes. Olaf is an interesting character who I have seen in many forms. Although the children try to outsmart him, he always finds a way to gain the upperhand, using violence if he has to. I've run into this type in my life... they are controlling, very controlling. They generally use fear and abuse to get what they want, and when that doesn't work, they usually work with kindness and trickery. Olaf's plan to win the Baudelaire estate (to reveal what it is would ruin the book) is such an example. He goes through cycles of abuse and kindness. When abuse doesn't work, he tries kindness. When kindness doesn't work, he goes back to abuse. I've ran into his type and that's the type I would like to slap. I am surprised at the resources of the Baudelaire twins and how they deal with Count Olaf, Violet in particular. She is always studying her surroundings and reading up on things to get our of the situations she does. In a lot of ways, she is like me. When I was depressed, I would always read up on things to try to get out of it. This book is one such example. It gave me ideas of how to deal with depression. Although I didn't find this book that funny, I did find in it a simple tale of three children who are trying to overcome their evil guardian. I give it three stars because of the lack of enjoyment of the humor, but would give it more if it were more developed. It is a good story about how three youths deal with the issue of abuse.
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Summary: Not a Bad Beginning at All
Review: The Baudelaire siblings are enjoying a day at the beach when Mr. Poe comes walking through the fog to find them. He has very bad news. Their house has burned to the ground and their parents are dead. To honor their father's wishes, they are sent to live with Count Olaf across town. He treats them like slaves. But that's just the beginning. He also wants to take over their trust fund, and will stop at nothing to do so. I really didn't know what to think about this series. But some friends highly recommended it to me, so I decided to give it a try. And I'm glad I did. This book is rather dark for a kid's book, with lots of sarcasm and dark humor, as well as some tragic events. It does require a certainly level of maturity to be appreciated by kids or adults. I was really taken with the kids, however. Violet and Klaus pull together and don't let anything stop them from trying to make the most of a bad situation. I wish more people, including me, were like that. And Sunny constantly made me smile with her sudden outbursts. The set up of the plot was fairly obvious to me, but I didn't see the ending coming before it happened. My only real complaint was the narrator's habit of interrupting a story to define a word that had just been used. It got annoying seeing this on every few pages. Take the warning on the back seriously. These are dark books. But they are certainly enjoyable as well.
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Summary: "Baudelaire Family's Cursed"
Review: In the story Violet(the oldest), Klaus(middle child), and Sunny(the infant) are the Baudelaire children who lived a happy life but one day while the children were at the beach playing their house burned down with everything in it and their parents were in the house too when it burned down.
They moved in with a distant relative that they didn't know whose name is Count Olaf. He tries to pull stunts on the children and almost gets away with them which at the end of the story he gets cought when he does something. But Violet and Klaus figure it out and his plan and they ruined it.
I believe the children were too smart for Olaf and in which they always got out of doing things because they always found reasons or just didn't really care what he said. I would recommend this book to people who like to read series and enjoy reading things that have a ending that you want to read more.
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Summary: "Baudelaire Family's Cursed"
Review: In the story Violet(the olderest), Klaus(middle child), and Sunny(the infant) are the Baudelaire children. Who lived a happy life but one day while the children were at the beach playing their house burned down with everything in it and their parents were in the house too when it burned down.
They moved in with a distance realtive that they didn't know which his name is Count Olaf. He tries to pull stunts on the children and almost gets away with them. Which at the end of the story he gets cought when he does something. But Violet and Klaus figure it out and his plan is ruined.
I believe the children were to smart for Olaf and in which they always got out of doing things because they always found reasons or just didn't really care waht he said. I would recomend this book to people who like to read series and enjoy reading things that have a ending that you want to read more.
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Summary: the bad beggining by josh wise
Review: this book is great! although i feel bad saying that because its about three kids whose lives are absolutely awful in pretty much every way! After receiving news of their parents utterly awful (and more to the point unexplainable) demise while playing peacefully on the beach! Violet, sunny & klaus baudelaire are sent (by the ever-coughing mr poe!) to their new guardian(and their FIRST as their are many more books to come!) the ever-evil count olaf! Who attemps to steal the baudelaire fortune. I really enjoyed it! it is funnier (as it is a children's book) than it has any right to be! i particularly recommend this one to kids around 9-14 for it's simplicity of style!
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Summary: Lemony Sniket is Coolio!
Review: I read this book 'cause all my homies said that Lemony Snicket's line of Unforunate Events was coolio. So when I was reading it I was like whoa this book really is coolio. And then I went to the book store and bought all of them and its driving me cravy because I still dont know what VFD stands for. Also my fav book of Unforunate Events was defedently the VILE VILLIAGE. and then probably the WIDE WINDOW but then after that its the BAD BEGINNG. But enogh about that everybody should listen to MEST.
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Summary: The Bad Beginning is a Good beginning.... :D
Review: Unlike many series that decline in quality as it goes on, Series of Unfortunate Events only gets better. Not only that when you read the first say, 2 or 3 books, you will NOT be completely accustomed to the humor. Especially in the first book, in fact in the first book all the horrible events REALLY seem horrible!!! I know they made me angry and devestated and frustated at the Baudelare's horrible misfortunes. But after a few books you begin to see th humor in each new situation, of course you will still get mad, but you'll find your self busting out laughing more than getting angry. So onto the review... Well in book one we our introduced to the Baudelaire's, they are quite happy children that live with their parents in a large house, and are very rich. These children include: Violet, a 14 year old whom is a genius inventor, and will tie her up when in the midst of inventing, Klaus, her 12 year old brother whom is a genius of books, hecan't get enough of them, and is quite often a well of imformation, and last but not least Sunny, a small baby whom is still crawling, can't really talk yet except with made up words, but she has for EXTREMELY long & sharp teeth. Now, so the story goes, the Baudelare children were playing on the beach, when they became orphans(wont tell you how), this is where there misfortunes began, because they must live with a gardian now, a relative or something. Well, they end up living with Count Olaf, and really I don't want to tell you more, it'll just spoil the books. Well, anyways, it took me a while to really appreciate this series, I really didn't enjoy a lot until this year(I'm 19yrs), and I started reading these when I was 17yrs. I recently picked them up again after about a year's hiatus where I left off at book 3. After reading book 4, I was hooked. So my advice to you is, even if you don't REALLY enjoy these book at first, try picking them up again, because, well you might just find you appreciate them now as I do. God Bless & *enjoy* ~Amy
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Summary: AWSOME BOOK!!!!!!!!!
Review: Awsome book that gets you hooked from the first paragraph! When I first started reading this book I couldn't put it down.. I read all day when I first got it. After I finished it that weekend I was so eager to get back to school to get the second book of The Series of Unfortunate Events that I went strait to the library to check it out. I could relate to thier situations and thier enemies. Lemony Snicket did an excelent job writing this wonderful children's novel, and I would recomend this book to anyone who reads any kind of book.
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