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The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5)

The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Best Book!
Review: I think the book "Austere Acadamy" is a good book, a very good book indeed.It is about the Baudelaires meeting a mean Vice Principal Nero who snneringly mimics every word the Baudelairs say. Our unfortunate heros have to live in a disgusting and filthy place salled the ORPHAN'S SHACK which has disgusting paper decorating with tiny paper hearts, pinching crabs and fungus dripping from the walls. our heros don't really pay attention to any of that, they just care that Count Oalf hasn't found them or has he..?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hilarious Edition to series
Review: The Austere Academy was a great edition to A Series of Unfortuate Events and it will go down as one of the best in the series. At Prufrock Prep., the Baudelaires have some of the weirdest teachers ever! (Not to mention Vice Principal Nero.)The Baudelaires have a nasty room that has toe-pinching crabs, dripping fungus, and horrid wallpaper! Also, they meet some triplets who seem to have similarities with the Baudelaires problems. Duncan is a reporter and Isodora is a poet who writes down couplets (a kind of poem) in her notebook. But before things get settled, Count Olaf is back to make things worse. This time he is the gym coach, Coach Genghis. He makes them run laps during Vice Principal Nero's six hour violin concerts. Then Duncan and Isadora find out something socking about Count Olaf! The ending is a cliffhanger so I won't say anything else!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: READ IT!!!...
Review: This book was very good because it was funny and Lemony Snicket is a very funny writer. He makes a lot of jokes. The orphans are so brave, the way they can handle any situation that comes there way. If you read this book, it will really get you excited.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Austere Academy
Review: I think that this is a great book but it could be a little bit more happier. I know that this book is in a series of unfortunate events but even unhappy books can be a little bit happy. But I think it is a great book FOR A RAINY COLD GREY DAY!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AN AWESOME BOOK!!!
Review: The Austere Academy is the fifth book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket. This grimly hilarious children's novel will entertain and intrigue readers looking for a fun book to read. In each book in this series it is fun to meet the different villains, and discover Count Olaf's new disguises. In the Austere Academy Sunny, Klaus, and Violet Baudelaire are shipped off to a boarding school,which has the motto Memento Mori(remember, you will die)! During their stay the Baudelaires encounter snapping crabs, strict punishments, dripping fungus, comprehensive exams, six-hour violin recitals by the evil vice-principal Nero who thinks that he is a genius, Special Orphan Running Exercises(S.O.R.E.), and the metric system. I recommend this exquisite book to everyone!

I also recommend: The Bad Beginning, The Reptile Room, The Wide Window, The Miserable Mill, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, the Harry Potter series, and the Orphan Train Quartet.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Pure genius
Review: Thanks to some American friends, I recently discovered the joy of Lemony Snicket, and devoured all 7 books in the space of a week. It's hard to chose just one book, but I think this is my favourite. If only because it featured my new heroine, Sunny Baudelaire, working as a secretary, a concept I found oddly hilarious. Like the rest of this glorious series, The Austere Academy is very funny, very nasty, and, in its portrayal of the warm relationship between the unfortunate orphans, strangely heartwarming. Minka!, as Sunny might say. Or rather, shriek.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The surprising amount of spelling errors
Review: I was simply looking at all the reviews for my third favourite book in this series, and noticed something very shocking. It seems that many people writing reviews are either being hypnotized by Count Olaf, or they simply need some grammatical lessons from Mrs.J.Anwhistle. There are a great quantity of spelling errors. Also, some people type in the wrong description of the characters. For example, Violet is not 13, but rather 14. Quite frankly, I find that Violet happens to be the smartest of the trio, as Klaus always blurts out his discoveries to C. Olaf.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The unfortunate lives of the Baudelaire orphans continue.
Review: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny have been sent to Prufrock Preparatory School, where they hope they can find happier times and be protected from the greedy fortune-snagging Count Olaf. But just as they begin to settle down, they begin to realize just how much trouble they're in. The rules are outrageous. The teachers are outright boring and ridiculous. Poor Violet and Klaus are the victims of their own sour gorilla-like teachers, and what's most outrageous is the fact that a baby like Sunny has been hired by the principal as Secretary! And then there's the likes of ruthless Carmelita Spats, who thinks she's the very best student in all of the school. The Baudelaires are almost hopeless when they meet the Quagmire triplets. They, like the Baudelaires, had tragic circumstances and are also ridiculed by other students. They're the only ones who understand the Baudelaires, and befriend them. For once, the unlucky Baudelaires have found friends -- but not before Count Olaf

once again will somehow come out of his hiding -- wherever he is -- and soon the Baudelaires will find more misfortune then they ever wanted, as well as a haunting mystery and terrible nightly routines. The Austere Academy is the fifth miserable book in this series, and the ending was very surprising, leaving the reader on a devastating cliffhanger to read the sixth book, The Ersatz Elevator.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Best Book In the Series!
Review: this book was the best book yet! It really went to a new level, with new puzzles and mysteries and an even worse count olaf. now the books are suspenseful and enjoyable. the book was very good, from the homemade staples to the tiny crabs in the orphans shack. all the characters were great- especially the quagmire triplets. you have to read this book!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Misfortunately Marvalous! Sadly Superb! . . .
Review: All right, I'll stop now. But listen: Once you finish this wonderfully woeful(sorry!) book, you'll be just as excited as me! Here, let me show you. . . In THE AUSTERE ACADEMY,Lemony Snicket uses masterful humor and a great writing skill to spin this unmatchable tale of the Baudelaire orphans. Read it! Quick! ...


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