Rating: Summary: one of the best books i ever read Review: i liked this book a lot. i rated this 5 star because everything is so well thought out like the way all the materials violet finds in olaf's suitcase bring the death of montgomery all together.
Rating: Summary: The Reptile Room Review: The Reptile Room is a wonderful book.Its funny and full of on-your-toes excitement and its (of course) not your every day book. If you are a softy, this books not for you! You have to be willing to take a joke, yet good and ready to laugh when the author talks to you through out this book.And to spice this up a little more, be sure to read the back pages!!!!
Rating: Summary: All for one and one for all Review: How can you not love this second encounter with the Baudlaire children and their terrible misadventures? Not only do middle school children enjoy these Lemony Snicket books, but so do high schoolers and adults (such as myself.) In this episode the orphaned children are lucky enough to end up staying with their "Uncle Monty" who collects snakes, makes wonderful coconut cream pies and is going to let them join him on his next snake hunt. Of course, the appearance of Count Olaf changes all of that. So what happens this time? Read away and enjoy another fun trip into the Victorian misadventures of Violet, Sunny and Klaus.
Rating: Summary: Unfortunately two steps down from the first volume Review: I love the first volume in this series. I bought the second one because I have an affinity for reptiles. I love the author's view of reptiles (not necessarily herpetologically accurate but outrageously funny at times). However, this second volume wasn't nearly as ghastly and much more predictable in its plot. While I couldn't put the first volume down, this one I could leave for hours at a time without a terrible desire to return to it. The second book in a series often shows weaknesses that are ironed out in the third and fourth and ... volumes. I am going to continue reading.
Rating: Summary: the baudelaires at their miserable best Review: I call these books Edward Gorey gothic--gloomy events related in the polite but hysterical tone of an Austen heroine gone round the bend. The narrator wrings his hands over the terrible events he describes, digresses like Wilde on speed, and sips tea, all the while begging the reader not to turn the page. Snicket's Baudelaire orphans are Kafka kids who move from one harrowing (and absurd) situation to the next with scarcely a pause.This is the best Baudelaire book so far--the most improbable, ghastly, and ridiculously involved. Murder, car crashes, truly bad disguises, lots of snakes, an endless discussion about the best way to carpool three orphans and a corpse, and a whole page covered with the word "ever." You'll laugh till you cry--or maybe the other way around.
Rating: Summary: The Reptile Room Review Review: This is a great book that keeps you interested in the book until you have read all of it. Once you have finished it, you should read all the books in the series. Make sure you read The Bad Beginning first, or else you will get confused.
Rating: Summary: tim curry is outrageous! Review: The story is really fun, but the narration is phenomenal. My daughter and I have listened many times to this great, imaginative story read by the inimitable Tim Curry. I wish additional books were narrated by him
Rating: Summary: Another masterpiece by Lemony Snicket. Review: Lemony Snicket comes back with yet another great book. Violet Klaus and Sunny Bauldelaire have another great adventure but now they have a new gaurdian. The setting is in the countryside where their new gaurdian Montgomery Montgomery,(or Dr. Montgomery) lives, and he is a reptile biologist. This book is very great but also sad. So before you read it just make sure you have a hankerchief with you. *Charachters* *Violet Bauldelaire *Klaus Bauldelaire *Sunny Bauldelaire *Dr. Montgomery *Count Olaf *Count Olaf's Theater group(sidekicks, actors) *Mr. Poe
Rating: Summary: When you say 'orphan,' do you mean... Review: How ghastly, how gruesome! As promised, the poor, unfortunate Baudalaire orphans have little happiness in their life. This second book is every bit (if not more so) as violent, grim and dark as the first. I've been captivated by this series, even though it isn't what anyone would call "Heavy Reading." If you have a half hour or so to devote to each installment, jump in, because they're intelligent, hilarious and vastly enjoyable.
Rating: Summary: Lemony Snicket Does It Again Review: I've read 6 of these books and The Reptile Room is by far my favorite. You'll want to keep reading. Good to read at night. Try to foil Olaf's plan with the Baudelaire orphans. They could use your help.
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