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The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 9)

The Carnivorous Carnival (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 9)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A wonderful book, best of the series!
Review: As the title says, another wonderful book by Lemony Snicket! As the Baudlaire orphans try to escape a fire in a villin's trunk, they discover how he has found out where they have gone each time.They disguise thmselves as two-headed freaks and Chabo The wolf baby.As this story continues,the children work at the carnival that they have arrived in,Sunny learns to make hot chocolate, and Violet and Klaus are chosen to be thrown into a pit of hungary lions! At the end, the Buadlaire's luck runs out as thier friends join Count Olaf,Sunny is babynapped, and Violet and Klaus tumble down a cliff. Beacause of the bad ending, i took of one star. A superior book for fans of the series!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Carnivorous Carnival will Eat You Up!
Review: The Baudelaire orphans left "The Hostile Hospital" in the trunk of Count Olaf's car; clearly a potentially very dangerous situation for Violet, Klaus and baby Sunny. However, once again the children use their wits to figure out how to escape their predicament.

The children find themselves in a run down carnival with another bizarre cast of characters, including several supposed "freaks." However, the freaks are not really all that freakish, one being a contortionist and one being ambidextrous. The children disguise themselves as freaks and manage to fool Count Olaf and his gang for most of the book. However, as we all know, eventually Count Olaf finds the children and another harrowing ending ensues.

Over the last two or three books we've been given tidbits about bigger mysteries surrounding the children and their parents. In this book the tidbits become much more substantial, and give us a clue as to the direction the series might take. While it may seem that my description is a bit vague, that is because I do not wish to give away any of the surprises in this book, and there is at least one very big surprise for the children and the reader, as well as a number of smaller surprises.

Because of the twists and turns, I am unable to provide the description I normally do for books in this series. As I noted earlier, there are a lot of surprises. Those surprises make for one of the most intriguing books in this series. I am anxiously anticipating the next volume, and even more, the end of the series, when I am hoping all the mysteries are finally revealed.

This particular entry in the series does involve death, again, and in your imagination the death is likely somewhat gruesome. Fortunately the amount of description given to the death is minimal, and is left mostly to the reader's imagination. Because of several intense moments, and the death, I would recommend this book for children 9 and older, though as always you should know the ability of your child to handle books similar to this one. This book does have its educational moments, though somewhat muted in comparison to some of the other entries in this series. Overall, the continued challenge to the paradigm that children's books for the stated age range should be relatively tame along with the creativity of this particular book requires a rating of 5 stars. Another solid entry in this series, which just seems to get better and better.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Read My Reveiw Please
Review: A great book. That is all I can say! Lemony Snicket is a great author; I've read all of the "Unfortunate Events" This is an easy book to read, so I suggest that you get it!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Carnivorous Carnival
Review: This is a great book for us kids under 13. I think this book is the best book of the series. It is way more exciting than all the other. Although this is a great book there are twists in the book it is a little confusing but at the end you will understand it. In this book there are new charecters and they make it cool and awesome too. I if you are thinking about buying it i think you should go right and buy it is so good. All of the things i told about this book you would be crazy not buy it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: IF YOU HAVE ANY SENSE YOU"LL READ THIS BOOK!!!!!!!
Review: Sorry 'bout the title. But seriously, this is a book you won't to miss the new book in the series. Sometimes you'll find that people say that Lemony Snicket's(Daniel Handler actually)occasional comments are intrusive and annoying, but I find them to be interesting,explanatory,decisive,humorous, and they build up the suspense.
In the book Violet,Klaus,and Sunny find themselves in the trunk of Count Olaf's car. Then in a "carnival" the Baudelaire children dress up as freaks in order to obtain information about the possibility of a surviving parent. They are rudely insulted along with the other not so freakish freaks, when they find out one freak will be thrown into a pit of lions(won't tell you the rest, you'll have to find out for yourself!).
I just got the book today, and when I started I couldn't put it down. I just finished it a few hours ago, and it never gets boring.LEMONY SNICKET HAS DONE IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: It Was Pretty Good
Review: It wasn't the best ASOUE book, but it was still good. The ending made you want the next book NOW!!! But it had too much detail and too many side stories, you would have to flip a page or two to get back to the real story. Also, it was freaky and kinda too violent talking about lions devouring people. And insulting people and calling them freaks was mean. But the book was still good. I can't wait for the next one.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: My favorite series in the whole wide world
Review: This book was particularly amazing and exciting. The thrill and adventure captured my breath and left my thirsty for more. This novel was the greatest out of the entire series. If only Lemony Snicket would keep on writing the series for the rest of his life so that I could keep on cherishing the moments by this enchanting series until I was dead. If only, if only the woodpecker cried...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Lemony Does It Again
Review: Lemony Snicket does it once again with the ninth installment in his series. The book has to be one of the best ones in the series. The ninth novel starts out with Lemony talking about his journey through the years finding all the information on the Baudlaires lives. After it skips to the story...

The ninth book is about the Baudlaires traveling once again but instead of walkign they are crammmed in a trunk of a car and not any ordinary car Count Olaf's car (the evil villan after their million doller fortune). They are now stranded at an old carnival sight. Not to be discovered by the Count they disguise themsleves as freaks (EX: sunny is diguised as a wolf baby) for a carnival actraction. but, the Baudlaires get into more nail bitting situations in this book and will keep you on the edge of your seat. With even more evil villians, fortune tellers, carnival freaks, and a lion pit you won't put this down until you finish.

I also love who Lemony writes to the editors about the next book. He has his own unique way of writing and the illistrations are awesome as well. I can't wait for the next one. Check out The House On Awful End if you like Lemony Snicket. The books are like the Unfortunate Events Books!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: IT WAS A GOOD BOOK
Review: Yes, I thought it was a very good book, but it did get kinda boring. Sorry but in the middle he kept interupting the story with those def. for the big words he used. He adds a little to much detail into the this story. Don't get me wrong, but I think you all half to admit that it was really not that unfortunate. Yes! Yes! He got their sis. (sorry gave away the end)! But at least they know where he's going.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: In the Belly of the Beast!!
Review: I am the #1 fan of all the Lemony Snicket books (The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, Lemony Snicket:The Unathourized Autobiography) and now The Carnivorous Carnival (Which I just finished reading moments ago in the bathroom by the way). My favorite is defenitly The Carnivorous Carnival. The ending is so suspenseful!!!! And it is DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!! Why did it have such a gigantic cliffhanger at the end!!! I can not wait until Book the Tenth The Slippery Slope comes out!!!!!!


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