The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)

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Summary: Cool,Interesting,Funny, and...
Review: This book rocked!I read it thinking it would be good, but later I found out that it was better than good...It Was Awesome!Mr.Lemony Snicket sir, if you read this reveiw I have to say that your book was the best.
To all you young readers out there you must read this book, I'm tellin' ya, it's the best!It's about three kids who find out that their parents died in a fire.They then are taken to a relative that they never heard of.His name is Count Olaf, and he tries to steal the three children(Violet~14,Klaus~12,and Sunny~?)
fortune...............................
Read this extremely great fantastic awesome creative book, to find out what happens in the end.Is the fortune taken?
As I said above,Read this extremely great fantastic awesome creative book to find the end.
I Hope That You liked my review and the book.

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Summary: The Bad beginging
Review: There were three kids. There were two girls and one boy.When they were little there parents died in a house fire. Now they have to live with a relative named Count Olaf. So Count Olaf tried to marry her and get her money. Yes i would recomend this book to a person.

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Summary: Strickingly appropriate
Review: I like this book and hope it brings some moral upbringing and a new zest for the fight against evil to the next generation's zeitgeist. I know we have, in the past, tried too hard to make everyone a good person. Clouding inappriate behavior in upbringing, or race, or class, and there may be some truth and understanding in this, but evil needs to dealt with directly also. I like this book. But evil is usually not so blatantly noticable as the evil of Count Olaf. It is typically misguided good people. One should know, from an early age, that life is not always fair, adults are not gods, and one should put their faith in their own enginuity and in God. Life is not always fair, or have the conclusion that one would think appropriate. This should be known.

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Summary: Excitingly Scary Book
Review: This is a great book for people who like Harry Potter. It is really exciting. The trouble starts out when the bad luck Boudilaires Voilet, Klaus,and Sunny when their parents are perished in a fire they must go live with horrible Count Olaf. He is crazy about eyes. They are everywhere you look in his house. He makes them do chores for no reason. He and his terrible theatre troupe put on a play called the Marvelous Marriage and Count Olaf plays Mr. nice and has the children in the play. Violet is to be the wife he marries! The children know something is up so they research in Justice Strouses library. When Klaus finds a neptual law book he reads that the only thing in their state to get married is to say I do and to sign a document in your own hand. They discover that Count Olaf is not pretending to get married he is planning to really marry Violet to steal the Boudilaire fortune. Violet refuses so Count Olaf steals baby Sunny and buts her in a birdcage dangling from the tallest tower. He says he will cut the rope holding her unless Violet will marry him. So Violet agrees. Read this book to findout if the children can find out how to escape Count Olaf's evil plan.

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Summary: A great beginning to a great series
Review: This book starts of the Series of Unfortunate Events with wicked good fun. The books are perfect for adults who have already read all of the Harry Potter books and want some light, imaginative reading. I've read the first seven books in the series, often in between more "serious" literature - a good way to cleanse the palate! Highly recommended for older children to adults.

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Summary: Alex Blanton
Review: The story THE BAD BEGINING takes place at an evil mans house, Count Olaf. You see there are some kids,Viliot,Klaus, and sunny Buedilar. There parents have died in a fire so they are forced to live with Count Olaf. Count Olaf relizes that they have a furtune and will do anything to try and still it. While they live there he makes them do hores like cook dinner for his dinner guest, because he runs a thaeter with scary people in masks. I give this book a lot of credit. It shows mystery,sadness, and escape. I will tell you if you get this book you will not be dissapointed.

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Summary: The Bad Beginning
Review: My review for The Bad Beginning is that it was a book for people who like a mystery and enjoy reading about people that have alot of troubles in their live. Thre kids, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, have many things go wrong throughout their lives. I the beginning of the book, the kids' parents are killed by a fire in their home. Their house is gonte. The parents left a big fortune for Violet when she comes of age. Count Olaf, a distant uncle, tries to steal the fortune. He is not able to. I would recommend this book to my brother, or someone who thinks it is cool that a kid has many problems in their life. I am not that kind of person, so this book is not one of my favorites.

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Summary: Good read for late pre-teens
Review: It is a decent children's book, maybe exceptional given our feel good society and how this book counter balances that, for maybe 4th through 7th graders. It gave, what is really an old stereo-type, that actors are a bunch of drunken no good scabs. Why we worship them the way we do, one wonders. Maybe this book is a good remedy. It has some good vocabulary, improving vocabulary is the only proven method of increasing one's IQ. The book gives men/boys the lesser of the admirable traits a character might have, and almost all the bad ones. Although it turns an androgynous (man/woman) creature into a villian, yahoo. One gets the feel, in the end, that men should be men and women should be women, and smell and dress different. So okay. The one thing I did not like is that it makes good and evil too clearly defined, thus unrealistic. Evil is typically people who think they are doing good but in fact are misguided evil people, which includes about 95% of the world's population. Count Olaf is just pure evil. But evil is rarely so distinguishable, and even Count Olaf would probably say, without qualms, that he was evil. I doubt Hitler or Rev. Al Sharpton would be willing enough to do that, in fact they would probably say they were good people. So, the book is a good worthy punch in the face. Realistic? No. Evil is more evil than count Olaf kids, it is often disguised as good people who even think they are good. Watch out.

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Summary: The Good Book
Review: The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket is a realistic fiction story with weird characters that keep you reading until the end of the book. In the book there are three children who lose both their parents in a fire that burned their mansion. So they live with a mean relative named Count Olaf.Cout Olaftreas them badly and yet wants something from them. The book is written so young children can easily understand it.Had my father not sent me to bed I would have finished it in one sitting. The book brought alot of sad thoughts in my head and yet I found it quite interesting.

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Summary: Not such a bad beginning
Review: I have been hearing about The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket for about a year, and I had heard mostly good reviews about it. I got this book for Christmas, and I whipped through it in about three days. I found it to be quite amusing, mostly because of the author's continuing commentary on just how depressing the book was. The characters may not be the most well-developed or unique that have ever been created, but I found the story just plain funny. One thing I must say I did not like about it was how the author kept defining words in their context in the story. That was unneccessary, and it got very annoying when words that most kids know were defined over and over again. If you have heard that this is as good as Harry Potter, well, it's not. Not many books are as good as Harry Potter. But The Bad Beginning is a good book to fill the time, and I reccommend it to anyone who is looking for a good laugh.