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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: I have now entered the frightening world of Lemony Snicket. His "Series of Unfortunate Events" is lots of fun. Having raced through three books in the series within two days, I must say that, yes, the books are formulaic, but they're so much fun that you don't care. The writing is crisp and taut and the stories leap to brilliant life in your mind. I have heard that the series will soon be filmed, and I shudder to think how badly the stories will be butchered by Hollywood.
The Baudelaires are charming and never fail to amuse. Mr. Poe is a bit wearying, and all the adults are stupid, but that's exactly Snicket's intent. Any child will point out that adults NEVER listen and are no help at all when your aunt is being devoured by leeches in the middle of a hurricane.
THE WIDE WINDOW is the best of the first three books, and has me anticipating the fourth, which I will start before bedtime tonight. Hurrah for Lemony Snicket!
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Summary: Beware the World Beyond the Wide Window
Review: After a fatal event at Uncle Monty's reptile house, Mr. Poe has, again, shifted the unlucky Baudelaire children to a new home. The three youngsters, 14 year old Violet, nearly 12 year old Klaus, and the infant Sunny, are being forced to start again. The children's new guardian, Aunt Josephine, owns a respectable house balanced on the edge of the cliff overlooking Lachrymose Lake. For such an unsafe place to station a house, as it seems the support beams cannot hold the heavy building much longer, Aunt Josephine is coincidentally the most cautious person on earth. She never turns the oven or stove on (She's afraid it'll burn down the house), never answers the phone (She doesn't want to be electrocuted), never turns on the radiator (It could explode), and she never dares to touch the doorknobs (They could shatter and hit her in the eye!). As if this wasn't unfortunate enough for the poor Baudelaire's, their new guardian has one love, and seemingly one love only. Grammar. Even infant Sunny doesn't fit with Josephine's rules, since Sunny can only say one-word phrases that can usually only be translated by her siblings. And Aunt Josephine gives the stern warning about the man-eating leeches of Lachrymose Lake. Grammar lessons, cold food, a cold house, and killer leeches just down below. Couldn't possibly get worse, right? Wrong! The Baudelaire's have barely had time to settle in before Count Olaf, their treacherous relative who is after their fortune, leaps in their path again. This time, he sneaks onto the scene as Captain Sham. But what is his plan this time? As a hurricane whirls nearer and nearer to the lake, the Baudelaire's hear a crash and run to the library, only to find the wide window looking out over Lachrymose Lake has been smashed. It seems Aunt Josephine has thrown herself out the window, leaving only a suicide letter...filled with grammatical errors? It doesn't seem like Aunt Josephine to do something like that. Did the Baudelaire's new guardian really kick the bucket, or is this the nastiest plan Count Olaf has hatched yet? The Baudelaire's are now in a race against time to find the truth or they will most definitely find themselves in Count Olaf's greedy hands. In this, one of the most exciting books of the series, keep an eye out for a business card with a mistake, dangerous peppermints, dark secrets, and a risky boat ride. Lemony Snicket makes this one of the most outstanding of the first three books in the series. The humor is more, the plot line has thickened, the escapes are close, and accidents always occur. And, of course, the grammar and definition is still there, even more so, now that Aunt Josephine comes into the story. Get ready for the most thrilling book yet, and beware the leeches. As long as you haven't eaten for an hour, you'll be safe.
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Summary: The Wide Window
Review: Summary:
The book that I am reading is part of a series. Throughout the books a man named Count Loaf chases 3 children. In the first book the parents die in a fire and they have to go and live with their distant relative. He treats the kids like dogs. He makes them work and he doesn't give them good clothes or a place to sleep. The 3 children are very rich but they can't get the money until the oldest child becomes of age. When the police find out what this man is doing they take the children and let them live with their Uncle Monty. But Count Olaf shows up and kills the uncle. The children go to live with their Aunt Josephine.
Their Aunt Josephine is afraid of everything. She lives on a cliff over a lake. She doesn't know anything about anything about the children. Count Olaf shows up one day and Aunt Josephine asks him to watch the kids one-day and he says yes. He tries to kill Aunt Josephine while he is watching the kids. The kids are the only ones who realize what's going on. Count Olaf takes Aunt Josephine and kills her and the children have to go and live with some one else.Review:
I didn't like the book. There is a lot of killing and death and hatred. The kids are always on the run and people don't believe them. There is a man who wants to kill them and no one believes them. Recommendation:
I recommend this book to people who like suspenseful stories and like to read about hatred and death. The book would be good for a teenager because the vocabulary is good and the reading is easy.
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Summary: The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events), Book3
Review: The book, The Wide Window was good, but wasn't my favorite book! It was about three orphans whose parents were killed by a fire. Mr. Poe takes them to live with their Aunt Josephine. This is the third relative they have lived with so far. They had to move to different places because of a bad man named Count Olaf. He is always after the Baudelair fortune and is really cruel to the orphans. Their Aunt Josephine is scared of everything, except grammer. While they were out shopping with Aunt Josephine, they ran into Captain Sham, who the orphans know is Count Olaf. Aunt Josephine doesn't believe them when they tell her, he is Count Olaf. Captain Sham (Count Olaf) eventually kills Aunt Josephine. Count Olaf gets caught because the orphans are too smart to not be fooled by him. This series if pretty fun to read, if you are looking for suspense. I thought the part when they ate the peppermints was crazy because it was going to give them hives and swollen tongues. But is was very creative how they used that to get away. My favorite character was Klaus, because he was always reading books. Even when he couldn't find anything to read he read one of Aunt Josephine's grammer books, so he could always keep reading.
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Summary: Grim but Funny, as usual!
Review: Aunt Josephine and leeches join us in the latest and greatest Baudelaire story. When the siblings move in with their "aunt" on Lake Lachrymose, things can get very, well, UNFORTUNATE.
Buy THE WIDE WINDOW today!
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Summary: Its...(Oops) it's simply marvelous
Review: Once again the three Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a distant relative, Aunt Josephine. Aunt Josephine is afraid of just about everything and everyone. This makes for a most unique lifestyle. The one exception to her fear of people is Captain Sham (and we all know who he is.) Prepare to join them on their unhappy journey and be ware of the "Lachrymose leaches." In case you missed reading the previous two books in the series you are brought up to date in the first few pages of this story. Lemony does it again using the formula that gives these chapter books a life of their own. We look forward to his writing style and his double entendre (which in this case means is a figure of speech similar to the pun, in which a spoken phrase can be understood in either of two ways) has shades of Bullwinkle. If you also pick up the recording narrated by Lemony himself you will find him adequate, which in this case is sufficient, but no Tim Curry, to the task.
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Summary: Loved it
Review: ...If you were looking for a book that was about three
chilldren with a regular life where the bad guy gets
caught,The End, then you've got the wrong book becuse
in this book the bad guy just keeps coming back.
That is becuse nobody ever believes them and the bad guy
is all ways in disguise.
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Summary: More of the same but still fun
Review: In the third book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, the Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the custody of another distant relative. This time around it's their "Aunt" Josephine; a widow who's afraid of everything and obsessed with grammar. Although the orphans aren't too fond of their new home they decide that it's much better than living with Count Olaf. Still, things go from bad to worse when a disguised Count Olaf shows up and none of the adults believe that it's really him. I liked this one a bit more than the second one, mainly because there was less of Mr. Poe. That man is really starting to get on my nerves. Besides that this book pretty much follows the same formula as the second. Surprisingly enough the series still hasn't gotten stale. Lemony Snicket's way with words and the orphans still keep this series interesting.
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Summary: Don't pass up this book!
Review: The Baudelaire orphans move into their Aunt Josephine's house . The house is on a very high cliff and the house looks like it could tip over any second. This time, Count Olaf disguises himself to be Captain Sham, the owner of a boat buisness. Aunt Josephine is scared of everything! She doesn't drive because she thinks the doors will get stuck and she will be trapped inside, she is afraid to use the telephone, use the stove, use the microwave and many other things. When Captain Sham (Count Olaf) calls one night, Violet gets the phone. Count Olaf says "Put the woman on the phone orphan." Aunt Josephine does not believe the 3 orphans that Captain Sham is really Count Olaf. Aunt Josephine talks to Captain Sham and he says that he has a surprise for the children. Aunt Josephine makes them leave the room so they don't here the surprise. To find out the rest of this exciting story, I suggest reading The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket.
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Summary: My Third Favorite!
Review: This is my third favorite of the Lemony Snicket book that have come out! Its very good and all of the Baudelaires are very clever and stop at nothing to capture Count Olaf. They are probably the most resourcful and quick in situations as I have ever seen them. Don't expect to be puting it down!
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