Rating: Summary: Brilliant!!!!!! absolutely brrrrrrrriliant! :oP Review: WELL... THIS BOOK IS GREAT! AND THE SERIES ARE ONE OF MY FAVOURITES! I WOULD RECOMEND THIS TO ANYONE WHO CAN READ!
Rating: Summary: The Reptile Room Review: The Reptile Room is a fictional book. It is about the Baudelaire orphans living with their Uncle Monty. Uncle Monty studies snakes for his job and has a reptile room in his house. He thinks his assistant has quit so he hires a new one. The new assistant is the orphans worst enemy- Count Olaf. Count Olaf calls himself Stephano so nobody will know he is Count Olaf, but the orphans really know who he is. Later in the book something bad happens to Uncle Monty and he dies. The orphans suspect that Stephano (Count Olaf) has murdered him. This is a great book and I think everyone would enjoy it even if you don't like snakes.
Rating: Summary: Very Entertaining Series! Review: I purchased books 1-5 on audio tape to listen to with my children while driving in the car. My how time flys when you are hearing about the perils of the Baudelaire children. I notice traffic doesn't bother me half as much while I am listening to these stories. Somethings in life could be much worse than sitting in bumper to bumper traffic.My children enjoy the stories so much that they don't just want to listen in the car anymore. Every night before they go to bed we listen to about an hour of the tape. Also, I think my children appreciate me more after they see what a hard life these children have. I would recommend these stories for older children (older then 7). Younger or overly sensitive children might get scared or become upset by some of the things that happen.
Rating: Summary: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket Review: I have 4 of the Series of Unfortunate Events books on audiotapes. I am an art teacher and I play the tapes for my students as they work. They LOVE these books and so do I! I really can't decided which narrator I like best - Tim Curry or Mr. Snicket himself. They are both wonderful!
Rating: Summary: The Reptile Room Review: I read the book The Reptile Room, and I loved it so much! This is book is so funny and it's really good! In this book the Baudelaire orphans go from different homes, like a foster family. They always run into troubles and the book is about how they try to use their imaginations to get out of trouble. In this book the three kids move in with their uncle, who works with reptiles. They have a wonderful time with him. Then something bad happens and they are forced to leave. They get stuck in a very sticky situation and must try to use their brains and get help! Their friend that works at the bank that takes care of them, doesn't believe they are in serious trouble so they also have to convince him to help. It turns out to be a mess! These books start bad and end bad, so if you are looking for a book with a good ending, this might not be the book for you. I normally don't like sad books or books that end badly, but when you read these you just have a feeling something better will happen and you have to keep reading! The Reptile Room has some unfortunate events in it, but it is overall a great book! I am so glad I decided to read the Series of Unfortunate Events books and Lemony Snicket. The Reptile Room is number two in the series so you might want to start out and read The Bad Beginning. Please read this book it is so wonderful and parts of it are very funny! Lemony Snicket is a great writer and he is very creative. I hope he writes a lot more books, because they are so interesting. They are also really entertaining and it is one of those books that you can imagine just like a movie. Once you start this book you won't put it down. Please try these books!
Rating: Summary: Good Follow Up to Book One Review: Here we are again with the three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny. In the first book their parents died in a fire and things went drastically downhill after that. Eventually ending with evil Count Olaf, a distant cousin, the trio tried to convince Mr. Poe, somewhat of a guardian, that Count Olaf was evil. At the end of the book Count Olaf ran away after his various machinations were unmasked. However, the ending was not happy because once again the orphans did not have a home. In this second book, we meet Dr. Montgomery Montgomery, or Uncle Monty, as he likes being called. At first the reader might believe that Uncle Monty's house is a bad place, for it is filled with snakes, including those of a poisonous variety. However, the children quickly realize that Uncle Monty is actually a very nice guy, and keeps a very clean and organized house. Soon the children actually begin to lead a normal life. As our erstwhile author periodically enjoys pointing out, life is not to be happy for the Baudelaire orphans, and Count Olaf appears once again, though disguised. It takes very little time for Uncle Montgomery to be killed; and once again the orphans risk being in a very bad situation. Eventually, through the cleverness of the orphans, you must know that Count Olaf will somehow be unmasked, and the children saved, though to what end? This book was not quite as dark as the first book, and the implied sexual situations relating to Violet did not appear to exist in this book, for which I was very happy. However, death reappears in this book, and Count Olaf remains the evil person he was in the first. Thus this book is likely unsuitable for most younger readers and age 9 should likely be a reasonable minimum. A parent may also need to be prepared for questions regarding death and evil people, and perhaps even questions regarding snakes. This book continues the strong educational message of the first book, both explicitly and implicitly. Because more difficult words are explained in detail, this book is, like the first, a good transitional book for readers in the 9 to 12 age range. While the images are dark in this book, they are not as dark as in the first. I recommend this book, but, but be very sure you know your child and what is in this book before you allow your child to read it. Four stars for a good follow up to the interesting approach started in book one for this age range.
Rating: Summary: Can't say I wasn't warned! Review: How many times have I sat and watched a bad movie thinking that it would get better? Does it ever? Of course not, and neither did this second book in the Series of Unfortunate Events: The Reptile Room. Here is another depressing story of the three Baudelaire orphans. If Lemony Snickett (the author) would take out all of the definitions, this tiny book would only have a few pages. Again, there is no character development. We really know nothing more about these children. Oh, and this time there is a murder and an attempted kidnapping. I know I am missing the boat on this series because kids seem to love these books. As a school counselor, I tell kids to read anything that interests them, even if it is a comic book. So, if children love these books, continue reading them! But in my humble opinion, these books are no comparison to the good ol' Nancy Drew, Trixie Beldon and Hardy Boys of my youth!
Rating: Summary: More of the same but still fun Review: In the second book of the series, the Baudelaire children find themselves in the care of another distant relative. Their luck seems to improve because their new guardian, Montgomery Montgomery, is quite fond of the kids and even lets them help him with his snakes. Things take a turn for the worse when Count Olaf shows up in the guise of Uncle Monty's assistant and he only has one goal in mind, to get his paws on the Baudelaire fortune... at any cost. This book doesn't really have anything new to add to the series and the plot of the first one was much more interesting. However, Lemony Snicket's brilliant way with words kept me laughing and Mr. Poe's idiocy kept me frustrated through out the book. Even though this book doesn't have much to it, it's still an enjoyable read and I look forward to reading the next in the series.
Rating: Summary: Just read this book & you'll thank me! Review: This was the best book i ever read { definitly my top 10}. Just read this book it's the best book. uNCLE mONTY IS SUPER NICE! BUT SOMETHING UNFORTUNATE HAPPENS... RREAD IT!!!!!
Rating: Summary: Very Funny Review: This is a really good, really funny book. It does not awnsers as many questons as the nineth but is a very good taste of the sadness, interstingness, questons, and funnyness of the later books.
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