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Summary: Tragedy follows...
Review: "The Wide Window" is in my view the most sad and tragic of all the books in Lemony Snicket's "A Series of Unfortunate Events" centered on the life of the orphans Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. In book the third the Baudelairs are taken by their lawyer Mr.Poe to live with Aunt Josephine at her house on the top of the mountain at Lake Lachrymose, home of the venomous Lachrymose Leeches. Aunt Josephine is scared of everything and expects diaster to always be around the corner. She thinks she will get burned by using the stove so the Baudelairs have to settle with the most awful cold cucumber soup they have ever tasted. Plus Aunt Josephine loves nothing more than grammar and constantly corrects the orphans mistakes. However Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are thankful that Count Olaf hasn't appeared in the quiet Lake Lachrymose yet. Their luck doesn't last long. It seems this time Count Olaf disguises himself as Captain Sham a sea captain!!! He totally fools Aunt Josephine but not the Baudelairs! Mysteriously Aunt Josephine seems to have commited suicide after a phone call to Captain Sham and has left the children under his care! Can the Baudelair orphans foil his evil plans once again?I found this book to be very sad even though it was still hilirous. Lemony Snicket truly works his magic in these books. I can't wait to read his autobiography!
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Summary: Can the orphans survive?
Review: Dear readers, This is one of the most exciting and hilarious books ever. Three orphans trying to survive from Count Olaf. In this book they are sent off to live with Aunt Josephine, who is afraid of everything {even a doorknob}. She lives on top of a lake called Lachrymose. Can the orphans stay in this house more than a week without Count Olaf finding them? Or do they have to move again? Find out by reading this fabulous book! I loved this book. It is my favorite one! I like them alot because they have alot of adventure and excitment. I like how you are always at a good part. You never want to stop reading them. The orphans are always on an adventure. I can't wait to read the rest of the series that are comming out soon!
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Summary: One of the best books in the series!!!
Review: The Wide Window was a good quick read. This story has an interesting plot, and will keep on your feet until the very end of the story. It is the fourth best book in the series, after The Slippery Slope, The Carnivorous Carnival, and The Vile Village(right now there is 10 books out.)
Just in case you are wondering the movie on the first book is supposed to come out in September or October of 2004. Happy reading and God bless. ***You should also read this series in order***
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Summary: Got a whale of a tale to tell ya lads
Review: Guardians of the unfortunate Baudelaire orphans can be easily separated into three categories. They are malicious (Count Olaf), benign (Uncle Monty), or useless (Aunt Josephine). In this particular book we meet the ineffectual Aunt Josephine, the third of the Baudelaire's guardians and, perhaps, the most useless of them all. I mean, certainly it is unfortunate that Count Olaf was their first, and continually follows them from home to home, always wearing disguises. But he was not useless. In fact, he moves the plots along quite nicely. In "The Wide Window", the unfortunate three have landed on the shores of Lake Lachrymose (lachrymose here meaning, "given to tears or weeping", as I am sure the children were feeling at that moment). They have been placed in the care of Aunt Josephine, a woman afraid of everything. Still, this new home is not too too bleak. The children have a large library to go through (albeit a library full of grammar books) and things appear to be going fairly smoothly until they run across their nemesis Count Olaf yet again. This time, he is disguised as Captain Sham (love the name) and his new plans to get his hands on the orphans is just as devious as ever. For vocabulary reasons alone these books are a wonder. Any parent reading them to their children would do well to explain all the little in-jokes that appear along the way (always assuming that the adults themselves GET the jokes in the first place). This book also is one of the first Baudelaire sagas in which the orphans actually see their guardian dispatched before their very eyes. Of course, you can't feel too badly about Aunt Josephine's death. She did attempt to sacrifice the orphans' lives for her own, in an act of cowardice that doomed her to death by (ugh) leeches. All in all, a wonderful continuation of A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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Summary: Very Good But Not Quite There
Review: The tragic saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as the well-meaning but oblivious Mr. Poe places the three children in the care of a distant relative, "Aunt" Josephine. Aunt Josephine is caring, intelligent, obsessed with grammar, and polyphobic. Her multitudinous fears make her an inept guardian, and certainly no match for the "kindly" Captain Sham, whom everyone but Aunt Josephine and Mr. Poe will immediately recognize as Count Olaf in disguise. Of course, tragedy ensues. I felt that this book had dropped a half-notch in quality from the first two books of the series. The pace seemed rushed and the plot sketchy, while Aunt Josephine and Mr. Poe were too thick and gullible to be credible. The scene where a fire is started by concentrating moonlight with telescope lenses is physically impossible, and I would bet that many of the younger readers will know this, or learn it quickly, from experience. The first two books gave me the impression that they flowed right from the author's imagination, whereas this one felt like it was driven by, "Oh, it's time for me to write another book, so I'd better do it." Now that I have my gripes out of the way, I want to make it clear that I still feel this to be a good story that was fun to read. It just did not quite meet the high standards set by the first two books of the series.
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Summary: The Wide Window
Review: "I don't care what he calls himself. He has the same shiny eyes, the same single eyebrow-."
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are now living with their Aunt Josephine in a house overlooking Lake Lachrymose. Aunt Josephine is afraid to touch almost everything for fear it will explode, shatter, or electricute her. She is also afraid of the lake where her beloved husband, Ike, was eaten by the Lachrymose Leeches.
While shopping, Violet runs into someone she hoped never to meet again. Count Olaf, disguised as a man named Captain Sham, appears. Violet trys to explain to Aunt Josephine Count Olaf is in town. However, the Baudelaire's Aunt won't hear of it. Now, the children are faced with yet another terrible scheme from Count Olaf.
Once I started reading the 3rd book in the Series of Unfortunate Events I was immediately drawn into the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. This is an exciting, suspenseful, cliff hanger experienced by three orphans. The Wide Window shows the bravery the orphans have when facing the terrible man who has been after their fortune forever. I recommend this book to anyone who likes realistic fiction or enjoys a story of misery and suspense. Morgen F.
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Summary: I'm a 29 year old, and I loved it!!!!
Review: This is the first Lemony Snicket, "Series of Unfortunate Events" book that I've read. I had to see what all the fuss was about and I tell you I absolutely loved it! I work in the Children's book industry so I have a lot of exposure to kids books but this one stands out from all the rest. The story is about 3 orphan siblings who are sent to live with their aunt Josephine who is loving yet very strange. Aunt Josephine is afraid of everything and therefore the orphans aren't allowed to do anything but study grammar. When the villan, Captain Sham, is introduced to the story, aunt Josephine disappears. The kids use their clever intelligence to solve the mystery but not without very tragic events! Or shall I say...a series of unfortunate events! The story is entertaining but does have some education value to it as well. Lemony Snicket introduces some new vocabulary for middle readers and always gives a definition. This book is a great choice to buy for your older kids..I'd say 8-12 years old.
I give this one 5 stars...
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Summary: The Wide Window
Review: "I don't care what he calls himself. He has the same shiny eyes, the same single eyebrow-."
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are now living with their Aunt Josephine in a house overlooking Lake Lachrymose. Aunt Josephine is afraid to touch almost everything for fear it will explode, shatter, or electricute her. She is also afraid of the lake where her beloved husband, Ike, was eaten by the Lachrymose Leeches.
While shopping, Violet runs into someone she hoped never to meet again. Count Olaf, disguised as a man named Captain Sham, appears. Violet trys to explain to Aunt Josephine Count Olaf is in town. However, the Baudelaire's Aunt won't hear of it. Now, the children are faced with yet another terrible scheme from Count Olaf.
Once I started reading the 3rd book in the Series of Unfortunate Events I was immediately drawn into the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. This is an exciting, suspenseful, cliff hanger experienced by three orphans. The Wide Window shows the bravery the orphans have when facing the terrible man who has been after their fortune forever. I recommend this book to anyone who likes realistic fiction or enjoys a story of misery and suspense. Morgen F.
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Summary: An Outstanding Book
Review: The tale of the Bauldlaire children continues whan the choked-up, old mad Mr. poe sends the children to yet another place where he thinks they will be safe. The way this story continues is great. The plot of the book is great and the way the author wrote the book is cool. It's exciting and I think that everybody sould read this book. It's one of the best books I've ever read.
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Summary: Good story, Bad narration on the audio book
Review: This book has a relatively good story. Perhaps not the best of the series, but it has some suspense and the usual "biting" humor. Alas, the audio book is terribly narrated. Thank heavens Tim Curry narrates every other Lemony Snicket book (so far). I highly recommend the other books on audiocassette. If your child is a reluctant reader, the Tim Curry audios of these books will have him or her hooked.
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