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

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Summary: The Bad Beginning
Review: This book is about the three Baudelaire children Violet, Klaus and Sunny.Their fortune began to weaken when their parents died in a fire that destroyed their house as well.

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Summary: One of the most horrible books!!
Review: I checked this book out of the library because I'd read a lot of good reviews on it but still didn't want to spend nine bucks to buy it. It was one of the best decisions I've ever made! Though the Baudelaire children do not display any charisma (they are slow and dim-witted), Snicket nevertheless pulls readers in by making us care for them because they are poor orphans. This is a clever ploy by Snicket, because I wanted to finish the book to see if the Baudelaires ever do become happy. But true to form, they do not. Even more slow and dim-witted than the Baudelaire children are the adults around them, who realize too late that the menacing Count Olaf is evil. This book is frustrating to read because all of the characters are so bumbling and stupid. Unless you like to read books about children who are in an endless circle of misery and are too dumb to get themselves out of it for longer than five minutes, do not read this book.

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Summary: excelent and exciting
Review: This book was full of suspense and problems. The vocabulary was exelent for young kids. It had a little wierd touch of fairy tale in it a bit like harry potter. This book had exciting event after exciting event. The author says not to read this book if you like cheerfull books. Persoanoly I think you shouldn't read this book if your looking for a book to get you asleep. You can't get it out of your hands!

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Summary: Awfully wonderful...
Review: I purchased the audiobook "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket just recently and have already listened to it twice. It is wonderful. I have always been a big fan of Tim Curry and his renditions of Count Olaf and the hacking Mr. Poe are right on target. This is one audiobook worth listening to again, and again, and again.....

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Summary: Outstanding and Entertaining Book for Intermediate Readers
Review: This book hooks you right on the first page. Read through to see how the Baudeliaire children go through tough times and unluckiness. Their witty and brilliant minds help them survive the wrath of Count Olaf.

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Summary: Outstading and Entertaining Book for Intermediate Readers
Review: This book hooks you right on the first page. Read through to see how the Baudeliaire children go through tough times and unluckyness. Their witty and brilliant minds help them survive the wrath of Count Olaf.

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Summary: Better than Harry Potter
Review: This is the first book of the siries A siries of unfortunate events. It starts of with some bad news about the 3 main charictors
parents and then they are sent to live with there distant realation Count Olaf. The childrens parents were very wealthy, Olafs only plan is to get his evil claws in to there money. the stowy unravels into a very divious plan of his and the 3 children must work out how yo stop him. I suggest very strongly to whoever is reading this reiview to by this great book. It was so exciting that I just couldn't put it down!

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Summary: Delightfully Dastardly Beginning to a Wonderful Series!!
Review: Lemony Snicket ( a dubious moniker if there ever was, and certainly not to be trusted) has set forth the task of developing one of the most enjoyable (and downright nasty) children's series of books, aptly entitled "A Series of Unfortunate Events". The events that befall the hapless Baudelaire trio (Violet, Klaus, and the infant Sunny) are shocking, disturbing, cruel, and very, very unfortunate. So why read, one may ask? Well, for one thing twisted accounts of devious circumstances are always enjoyable when viewed from a distance (ie. the pages of a fictitious book, fictitious meaning "not real") and while bad things happen, even worse things are averted through intelligence, cunning, and the urge to teethe. Besides, who could resist such dark fun? It is sad, it is funny, there is an overlying sense of menace throughout but one reads in the hopes that our loveable protagonistic trio will prevail. But will they...? A Series of Unfortunate Events is a great way to get kids who are reluctant to read to do just that, much easier than say leaving such a child bound and gagged in a bird cage dangling thirty some feet above unpleasantly hard ground until they come to their senses! By no means is this series just for kids, "kids" meaning the offspring of goats, or perhaps humans? If you like Edward Gorey you'll love this series. Just pray that Lemony Snicket doesn't realize how deranged he is and decides to take medication to alleviate his madness. I for one, enjoy it!

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Summary: A very good book for it being called "The Bad Beginning"
Review: I loved the book "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket because of all the horrible things that happened to them. Just when yout thought thinks couldn't get worse, they do! But they make the best of each 'ironic' situation, and makes me love Violet, Klaus, and Sunny all the more. The book is so outrageous, you have to love it. It just gets worse and worse, but better and better. I couldn't wait to find out what would happen next. It was so funny, i just had to get the next book.

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Summary: I think they're funny!
Review: Yes, I like the fact that the author defines words on every page. I think its funny. I also like his examples of the words, and how he sometimes leaves the story to talk about something else. While the plots aren't alway my favorite, I like the way Lemony Snicket writes. The Bad Begining isn't my favorite in the series, and I think they get better as they go along. I love the 2nd and 3rd and especially the 6th.