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Summary: The Best Beginning!!!!!!!
Review: This is the first book in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. It is a very good introduction. Violet, Klaus and Sunny are three children who have the largest amount of bad luck I've ever read about. These books are miserable and depressing and I thought they'd be horrible but amazingly they are great. The first book tells us all about Violet, the inventor, Klaus, the researcher and Sunny the biter Baudelaire. When their parents are killed in a fire, the three Baudelaires are sent to live with a distant relitive, Count Olaf, a horrible man that owns a theater group which consists of a bald man with a beaky nose, two women with powdered white faces, a man with hooks instead of hands and a horrible creature of a person that neither looks like a man or woman. They are all almost as horrible as Count Olaf himself. When the Count finds out about the fortune that Violet will inherit when she is of age, ( Violets 14, Klaus 12 and Sunny an infant ) he trys an awful plan to take the fortune and if the children don't stop him, Violet will be a Countess forever!!!
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Summary: The VERY BAD beginning
Review: These kids are unlucky and with Count Olaf after their money which was left behind when their house burned down and killed their parents count olaf tries somthing horrible read it to see the outcome
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Summary: You'll be unfortunate if you don't read this book!
Review: Only Lemony Snicket could of wrote this book. If you read the first page you just can't stap reading it. Also if you read THE BAD BEGINNING you have to read the rest of the series. Lemony Snicket is BY FAR the best author the world has ever seen.
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Summary: This book totally SUCKS
Review: I have to say that this is absolutely the worst piece of literature i ever read. This is NOT HOW REAL KIDS ACT. First of all they would have resorted to violence, there must have been an assortment of tools they could have used to knock him unconcious with. Or they could have, I don't know, RUN AWAY. They're millionaires after a while of refusing to go back they would put them some place else. There are so many ways that this book could have been different and make it ACTUALLY GOOD and worth reading. But other then that just picture three really idiotic kids, make them do all the stupidest things possible and not trying to save their own lives, I think it was more like a book about suicide then anything else.
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Summary: the best book in the world
Review: I think Lemony Snicket writes alot of terrific books for 9 and up. Her books are little sad and also a little funny. When I read this book I had mixed feeling's.Then I realized if I didn't take the book like it was in real life it would not be so sad.So by the time I finished the book it was SO good!That made the book worth 5 stars.I am going to read the whole rest of the seire's.
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Summary: VERY GOOD
Review: THIS BOOK IS VERY GOOD. READERS OF ALL AGES WILL LOVE THIS BOOK. IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE UNPLEASENT BUT IF IT IS PUT IT DOWN AND DO SOMETHING PLEASENT. BUT FROM MY PIONT OF VIEW I THINK THAT THIS BOOK IS A GOOD BOOK AND SO IS THE REST OF THE SERIES.
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Summary: Clever, Dark, and Funny!
Review: The Bad Beginning, the first book in the "A Series of Unfortunate Events" can be classifed as clever, dark, and funny. At the beginning of the book when the author says don't keep reading if you hate bad endings he is quite right. First the Baudelaire children get the most horrifying news from Mr. Poe, a guy who can't seem to stop coughing, that their parents had died in a horrible fire. They have a fortune but they learn the unfortunate news that they can't have it until the oldest Violet who is 14 becomes adult age. So their lawyer Mr. Poe takes the three children Violet, Klaus, and Sunny to the horrible guardian Count Olaf who will stop at nothing to get their fortune. The three orphans seem defensless against Count Olaf's evil plans as he traps Baby Sunny in the forbidden tower until Violet would marry him. However Count Olaf seems to have underestimated these smart children! This book was really really funny. In many ways it has the humor and darkness of Harry Potter and even more. This is a great start to the books about the Baudlaire orphans but firsthand let me warn you: If you hate unhappy, unfortunate, bad ending stop reading now!
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Summary: only ok
Review: So, I decided not to buy this for my classroom. The horrible and awful things that happen in the story are genuinely awful (sexual and physical abuse, for example) and are never resolved or portrayed as as bad as they are. If the reader were from a background where these things had never happened to them the book could be read from a position of privelege and ignorance and could be enjoyed more than if read by a survivor who might just sit there struck by the protagonists' inaction. So, it was kind of fun, but I had this constant feeling as I was reading it that these kids should have gone out and done something about what was happening to them. This is not a book I would want to put in the hands of my students.
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Summary: Poor writing, poor plot, poor characters - don't bother!
Review: This is one of the worst books I've ever read. Not only is the plot dull and uninspired, but the writing is horrible. One of the most annoying aspects is the authors irritating way of taking time out of the story to define words! An example would be "in a rickety cart - rickety here meaning..." I prefer when writers allow me to decide which words I know or don't know and decide when to use a dictionary. I like the idea of a "gothic" children's series with dark and dangerous mysteries, but this is certainly not it. Save your money. This book is terrible.
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Summary: Very original
Review: First off, let's start by saying that the entire Series of Unfortunate Events has a plot that is so original I can't compare it to any other books, so I'm not going to. It has original characters, plots, themes, settings, and an overall ambiance that can be found nowhere else. Lemony Snicket, or whatever his name is, has quite an imagination. One thing, out of many, that I love so much about his books are that there are NO happy endings. There is almost NO sympathy for the characters. Hardly anything good every happens to them. The books are so... morbid. And yet the author manages to make them hilarious at the same time. I've laughed every single time someone's died. I have come across ONE other book with the ability to do that to me. The author has, in short, talent. A lot of it. If you haven't already read these books, you should. You won't regret it.
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