Rating:  Summary: Do not buy this book for your child!!! Review: I am a teacher. I loved allof the Harry Potter books and was told that this was a similar series. Wrong. This book is awful. It is about three orphans who are physically & psychologically abused by their caretaker. It also dumbs-down the vocabulary, by explaining what each word means in the text of the story (as if you are reading a dictionary.) I couldn't even finish it and I don't say that about many children's books.
Rating:  Summary: Enjoyed it Immensely which here means, a lot. Review: I thought "The Bad Beginning" was a very good book. I read it in about 45 minutes, and I thought it was 'awfully' good. I felt for the children, and hated the uncle as much as anybody...and I found that they survived quite well, when everyone in their world turned on them. So, as we said goodbye for now as the drove on to their next destination...we had to wonder whether it would be a happier place...but wait, if so...it wouldn't be a series of UNfortunate events...never mind.
Rating:  Summary: The Best!!!!!!! Review: That writer from Australia is totally screwed in the head! This is the best book! I'm on the 7th book right now and it's the best! I encourage everybody to read it!
Rating:  Summary: Thrilling and fun Review: I'm only 11 years old, and I thought that this book was thrilling and fun. The book has three charming children and one evil man. The story kept me on the edge of my seat. The solution also makes young minds, like myself, think. The definitions in the book were so helpful to my vocabulary. Not only that, Snicket tied the definitions into the book to give it a better way of looking at it. Next to Harry Potter, this book is the best book I've ever read! ;)
Rating:  Summary: Paramount (here meaning "superior") story... Review: Don't be misled by reviewers who insist on either comparing this series to Harry Potter or dismissing it as "too scary" or politically incorrect for children. Adult readers who find the author's periodic definitions of big words annoying or insulting are forgetting that they're not the target audience. The premise here--that bad things keep happening to good children--is dealt with fairly tongue-in-cheek, and though it would seem that there's no one in the world to save the Baudelaire children from their presumed fate, it's they themselves who will come to their own rescue (and they do)! Funny, witty, and charmingly different from much of what's being published for kids now.
Rating:  Summary: A bad beggining for a bad book. Review: The author has tried, unsecessfully tried to emulate the writers like J.K. Rowling and Enid Blyton. They constantly use words which are dificult for kids to understand, and then feel that they need to explain it. (not very well.) The plot and characters aren't bad, but the author is patronising to younger childeren in the way he structures and writes the book. I do not recommend it too anybody of any age. A bad read
Rating:  Summary: An Awesome adventure! Review: My Dad and I got this book yesterday and I finished reading it today. Violet (about 14 yr. old), Klaus (about 10 yr. old) and Sunny Baudelaire (about 2 yr. old) get into a lot of mischief trying to figure out how their new guardian father, Count Olaf, is trying to steel their inherited fortune. The children's real Father and Mother died in a bonfire in the beginning of the story. The Baudelaire's use their neighbor's (Justice Strauss) marriage law books from her library to try to stop the Count. I hope you love the interesting ending, have a fun time reading! I will start reading book two soon!
Rating:  Summary: The Bad Beginning The Best Book Review: I read the Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. I am sorry to say that the book you are reading about is unpleasant in some ways. But the book is a thriller. This is how it begins: The three Baudelaire children, Violet, Klaus, and their baby sister, Sunny, were strolling along the beach when they were interrupted by Mr.Poe (a friend of their parents). Mr.Poe came to them and said, Your parents died in a fire. So the children stayed with Mr.Poe until they could find someone to look after them. Finally, one day Mr.Poe said " You will be sent to Count Olf your third cousin." When they got to his house they looked at it in disgust because it is very old, and dirty. The children were told to do chores, and he gave them cold breakfast and he was never home (remember that the children were very rich). The only thing Count Olf ever wanted was their money. But you have to read the book to find out if he gets their money or not. I recommend this book to 10- 12 year olds.
Rating:  Summary: Not That Sad but GOOD Review: The Bad Begining is a great first book in the series. The characters are well described. Some parts are depressing but for the most part it's hunorous. Once you read it I gurantee you'll want to read the sequel!!
Rating:  Summary: Too delicious! Review: I came to this series as a result of an interview with the author that I read in Publishers Weekly. Intrigued, I ordered the first three books. I loved them. They are purportedly children's books but the author has a wicked sense of humor, and includes references that only adults would recognize. (For example, two of the three children are named Sunny and Klaus. Gee, that makes me think about some real-life wicked goings-on.)Aside from everything else, these children actually come alive; they're inventive, clever and resourceful. They also suffer at the hands of their wonderfully conceived evil uncle Count Olaf. I've passed these books along to a number of children who gobbled them up as avidly as I did--which proves that a good book knows no age barriers. This series is pure pleasure.
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