The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3)

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Summary: Easily the Best of the Series
Review: After my teacher read the first book of the series to my class, I really wanted to continue to read the series on my own. After going to the Miami Book Fair and hearing the author speak I went out and bought all his books. The Wide Window is easily the best yet! It has twists, turns, realistic characters, and an enthralling plot. The book stars the three Baudelaire orphans as they go and live with their Aunt Josephine. Count Olaf immediatley comes into to town disguised as a capatain of a ship but doesn't trick the kids. Wait... I won't give the rest away! Read this book. It is a genuinely fabulous book that any reader will love. It was soooo good. Pick it up NOW!

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Summary: Humorous, Entertaining, and Charming
Review: After having read Daniel Handler's books, I learned from some casual web surfing about his pseudonym Lemony Snicket. Having read just The Wide Window, I would say that I now want to read the rest of the Lemony Snicket books. As an adult, I found this book charming and humorous. The Baudelaire orphans are amusing, particularly little Sunny of the super-sharp teeth. This book was not a long complicated read like Harry Potter books, but it was full of great humor and some suspense. I think that this type of book would delight most children who enjoyed books with a sly sense of humor. As well there is an education value as this book uses some "vocabulary words" that kids might not know, but then immediately defines these words. After reading this one, I now want to go out and get the whole series so far.

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Summary: The scariest and most suspenseful in the series.
Review: I don't know about you, but those leeches had me going. Handler's (Oops, I mean Snickett's) imagination never lets up, and I'm sure No. 13 will be as entertaining as this one.

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Summary: The Best Yet!
Review: The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket has to be the best book in the series so far. It is very funny, has brilliant characters, and a brilliant plot. From the start of the book where the children are on Damocles Dock to the end where they at the lake, this book rocks. It is definitley the funniest book in the series so far too. You'll definitley enjoy this book. It was so good i finished it in a few hours. Read it! You'll love it.

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Summary: lemony does it again!
Review: this book is among one of the best books I have read. Lemony snicket knows just how to mix suspense and misery, and come out with a cozy, tounge in cheek story! This was the first book that I'd read in the series, so naturally I went back to read the last two. all of them were exquisite, but this one has to to be the best in the series. IF you don't read this you don't know what you're missing. Go out and get hooked on this series, just like me!

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Summary: A Spectacular Book
Review: I would call this book extremely exciting. Between lachymorse leeches to the hurricane, it was great. I think Lemony Snicket should be very proud of himself, because he writes great books in this whole series. From Damcles dock to the house on the cliff, it was very "jumping out of your skin" book. This is my opinion, as an 8 1/2 year old boy. I loved it and can't wait to read the next one. Your reviewer, Harry.

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Summary: Read It!
Review: Another funny witty action adventure for the Baudelaire orphans. This was our favorite of the first 3 in the series. Snicket writes so well, and the books are a pleasure to read aloud. Not a 5-star because the plots are pretty far-fetched, farcical. (Not for kids under 8!)

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Summary: not to be missed
Review: This book was so good it kept me at the edge of my seat! I could not put the book down. This book does not have any boring or bad parts. They are good and exciting. This book is not to be missed. But children under 7 should not read this book because of the misfortunes that the Baudelaires orphans experience.

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Summary: Snicket's best, so far
Review: As far as "darkness" or "inappropriateness" for youngsters goes, I tried reading *The Bad Beginning* to my 7-year-old a while ago and he begged off after one chapter, saying that it made him feel too sad; but the other day he took it off the shelf and -- on his own -- is now half-way through "Book the Second" of this series, *The Reptile Room.* I'm happy to report that he has a real treat in store when he turns to this volume of the Baudelaire orphan's adventures, for it is easily the best of the lot. Longer than either of its predecessors, it is also more relaxed and assured -- not that the pace is slack (far from it), it's simply that Snicket is more at home with his bag of tricks and is beginning to manipulate his deliberately limited, muted palette with a master's verve. Fearful, grammar-haunted Aunt Josephine is a wonderful, painfully funny addition to the improbable constellation of distant "family" through which it is the Baudelaire's sad fate to pass, and her second most notable quirk bears an interesting relationship to Snicket's own frequent definitions of "big words." This last feature seems to bother a lot of people, but I think these folks are trying to bully something which is primarily an *aesthetic* device of great flexibility into an overly-rigid pedagogical frame. These books aren't nasty things which are -- like certain exilirs --nevertheless good for you, they're wonderfully entertaining works of verbal art, and if one had to troll their depths for messages, one would find, cumulatively, that these have more to do with self-reliance and competence than with any of the hideous treatment the Baudelaire's endure or the corpses that are left in their wake.

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Summary: Cleverly written dark, funny tale
Review: I will agree with the comparison to Edward Gorey, this is definitly a great series for fans of his dark hilarious work. I work in a book store and this series has lately been our latest addiction. Sad & dismel yes, but the clever wrting by Mr Snicket keeps the reader from despair. Wonderful quick reads for the "adults" who grew up with a black sense of humor.