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Summary: Suspenseful...and long
Review: Curl up by the fire with this mysterious, suspenseful Baudelaire book. The children suspect nothing, thinking they are almost safe from Count Olaf's treachery. But how can they be too sure? Esmé and Jerome seem nice enough, but you can't trust anyone in a situation alike to the Baudelaires's. Can they rescue the Quagmire triplets? Will they find out the mystery of the hallway and V.F.D.? What is the true identity of the doorman, and why does he hide his hands? Sunny, Klaus, and Violet Baudelaire encounter two red herrings, tragic seperations, and traps in Book 6. (not to mention the element of surprise) But all in all, you'll find what's "in" and what's "out," from aqeous martinis to parsely soda, from orphans to ocean decorations hilariously funny.
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Summary: Beatrice! Beatrice!! Beatrice!!!
Review: Not the strongest of his volumes so far. But it adds to the mystery of the Books dedications. So far we know the following: 1) Beatrice, the author's "darling' is dead. 2)Beatrice asked too late, "Where is Count Olaf"? 3) His friend, Professor Reed, painted a triptych titled "What Happened to Beatrice". On one panel is a fire, on the second panel is a typewriter, on the third is "the face of a beautiful, intelligent woman." 4)A man - "not, alas, me" - is lucky enough to marry his beloved Beatrice and live with her in happiness over the course of her short life. 5)At the Duchess of Winnipeg's' masked ball, he is pursued by palace guards. He approaches a woman he had been forbidden to approach for the rest of his life. She is alone on the Veranda. He gives her the message he had been trying to give her for fifteen long and lonely years: "Beatrice," he cries, just as the Palace guards spot him; "Count Olaf is .........." He cannot go on. AND,6)Esme wants to steal from the Baudelaire orphans "the way Beatrice stole from me."So, if I am not too nervous, I shall wait anxiously for the next volume to continue to enlighten the various levels of mysteries contained herein.....
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Summary: Different than others
Review: The earlier books in A Series Of Unfortunate Events were funny (especially book 2), but this one simply did not have the same amount of comedy. On the plus side, it did have more suspense and excitement, which is why I gave it a 4 instead of a 3.
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Summary: The best yet!!!
Review: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are yet again staying with yet another relative, and this time it's just a walking distance from their mansion which burned down in book #1: The Bad Beginning. Esmé and Jerome Squalor are their new legal guardians, and Esmé said upon their arrival that all their friends will be sick with jealousy because they have three real live orphans in their home. Orphans are "in", explains Esmé. They would have adopted the children right after the terrible fire that started all their bad luck, but orphans were out at the moment and that'd simply never do. The 71-bedroom penthouse apartment the Baudelaires now live in (or should I say, lived in) is so enormous that they can scarcely find anything. There are dozens of bathrooms, ballrooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, kitchens, living rooms, and rooms which appeared to serve no purpose whatsoever. One interesting thing about this book is that many things are not what they seem. Count Olaf, for example, in his new disguise is not what he seems. A certain elevator is not what it seems. A certain person turns out to not be what this person seems to be (this person becomes another threat to the Baudelaires' lives and their fortune, along with a new associate to Count Olaf). V.F.D. is not what it seems. And a large red herring is not what it seems. As you can see, this book's mysteries will befuddle you until the very end, and some of them won't be discovered until much later. I recommend this book for any fan of the first 5 books in this wretched yet wonderful series. Also for fans of Finnegan Zwake Mysteries and Harry Potter. But be careful when you buy them, because Count Olaf and his assistants are watching you.
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Summary: The Best One Yet!
Review: The Baudelaire orphans this time go to live with the sixth most important financial advisor in the city and her husband. Stairs are "in" and elevators are "out", so they have to walk to the penthouse on the sixty-sixth floor, the average of 48 and 84. But when they encounter Count Olaf, they realize that their explanation of where the Quagmire triplets are is right under their noses! But alas! Don't be fooled by this review! THis story is part of the unfortunate events series! They neverhave a happy ending. But still, it's reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelly good.
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This book is amazing! It has all the suspense, humor, andmystery of the other books. The Quagmire twins reappear again, aperson they trust betrays them, and everybody does a lot more in thebooks. Violet has more inventions, Klaus puts his thinking power to anew level, and Sunny is more involved. Also, the book gets youthinking and questioning. More mysteries appear like a charactermentioning Beatrice stealing, a secret passage that leades to a placethe Baudelaire orphans know well, and, again, the mysteriousinitals. Everything is done to the max. I strongly recomend readingthis book.
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Summary: The best book I ever read
Review: This book is unlike any other book i've ever read.It is hard for me to say if I like Violet or Klaus more.Beacause they both really help geting away from danger (or Count Olaf).I recomend this book entirely.
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Summary: Orphans Are Definatley "IN"
Review: The Baudelaire Orphans are abanded again, this time on Dark Lane teh darkest street in the orphans home town. There new parents are the Sqaulors wh oare just obsesed about what is "IN" and what is not. They even have a whole library of past "IN" things. And the latest craze is orphans so they accept the siblings. The Squalors live on the very top floor of a big apartment complex. Their home takes up the whole top floor and there is only one way to get up-walk the endless flight of stairs that span past what one can count. That is the only way because the elevators are not "IN". This book is zany, fun, and creative. The orphans are put to the test as they climb down an elevator shaft, try to rescue there freinds the Quagmires from the "IN" Auction, and most of all climb endless amounts of stairs. This is one of the best books in this series (along with THE WIDE WINDOW, and THE VILE VILLAGE) Lemony Snickett is a genuis as he tells the story of 3 struggling young children in the ERSATZ ELEVATOR note: don't look up ersatz in the dictionary as it will give away part of the book Thank You
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Summary: "Orphans were out then...now they are in"
Review: Throughout the books in this series I have noticed a clear trend, which consists in the Baudelaire orphans having to face more complex and dangerous situations as the story progresses. In the previous book, Violet, Klaus and Sony finally found friends in the presence of the two Quagmire triplets (yes, you read it right...two triplets!). But the joy did not last long, and soon the mischievous Count Olaf kidnapped the Quagmires. Now the orphans have to figure out a way to remain safe, but also have to try to rescue their friends in the process, and the only way to do this is to find Count Olaf and solve the mystery of VFD.
After a journey that has taken them through their fair share of scary and woeful places, the Baudelaires are finally close to their home once more. The problem is that close is not close enough, and Dark Avenue, the street where their new guardians live, is really what the name suggests: a dreadful place. The neighborhood in which the Squalors live is in the dark because dark is in! In the same manner, the elevators are out, and the orphans, the pinstripe suits and the aqueous martinis are in. Even though the orphans are forced to climb the stairs to the apartment of Jerome and Esme Squalor in the dark, either to the forty-eighth or eighty-fourth floor, and all the nonsense they have to put up with about what is in and what is out, they are safe and sound and that is enough to give them some solace. However, they cannot help but feel some fear about what will happen when the orphans are not in anymore.
Of course, Count Olaf will show up disguised as usual and bring danger to the world of the Baudelaires, and there will be excitement, happiness and sorrow. Violet will have to show a great deal of her inventing talents, Klaus his ability for research and Sony the strength of her four teeth. Also as usual, the reader will get a fair amount of excellent entertainment, with Snicket's witty remarks and unusual technique for writing. One aspect of this technique is that when the book starts we are given a preview of what will come, through the use of dictionaries and words in quotes...but I am going to let you figure that one out on your own.
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Summary: READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Dans ce tome 6, les trois orphelins Baudelaire débarquent chez le couple d'Eschemizerre, Jérôme et Esmé, dans le quartier huppé de leur ville d'origine. Cette fois-ci, Violette, Klaus et Prunille vont s'initier aux rouages de ce qui est in et out. L'épouse de Jérôme est inconditionnelle là-dessus. C'est elle qui organise, d'ailleurs, les ventes aux enchères In - moment crucial de la fin du livre où rebondissements en tout genre vont survenir. Mais avant la fin, les orphelins vont une nouvelle fois se frotter à leur ennemi, le comte Olaf, toujours déguisé d'un accoutrement qu'ils sont les seuls à détecter et démasquer. Décidément, les adultes chez Lemony Snicket ne sont qu'une bande de zozos incapables et grotesques. Les enfants Baudelaire, par contre, brillent d'intelligence et de courage. Cet "Ascenceur pour la peur" illustre magnifiquement ce propos ! Aussi, dans ce tome 6, j'ai notamment apprécié que des éléments déterminants, révélés en fin de tome 5, soient repris dans ce récit, tentés d'êtres dénoués et décryptés. Dès lors, je trouve que la série des Orphelins Baudelaire adoptent un virage de plus en plus palpitant. Mystères et secrets pointent leur nez, pour le plus grand plaisir des aficionados !
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