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Summary: Sad , Depressing , and Entertaining!
Review: This is a book about three young children Violet,Klaus, and Sunny whose parents die in a fire, there mantion is burnt to the ground.So they have to go livewith there only living relative Count Olaf.I liked it because the Baudelaire children are desperately trying to make their lives the way they want them to be, but Count Olaf kind of turns that hope down. Let's just say he is not the kind of relative you would like to have as the only living one. So that sort of makes their lives even worse than it already is. The effort in this book is amazing, and tragic. But it is still one of the best books I have ever read. If you like this book, you like depressing things. That doesn't mean don't read it. I'd just say it's the best.
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Summary: greatist book
Review: My Amozon Review: Lemony Snicket has made a great start to an astonishing line of spell binding books. "The bad beginning" in my opinion is one of the greatest books I have read. The book begins at a beach in New England where three children named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. They found out that there house perished in a fire and along with their parents. A family friend helps them along the way to a new life and a new family. But bad luck keeps following them wherever they go. At the first house they meet count olf. He is a scheming man with a hankering for the Baudelaire children's fortune at any cost! The details Lemony Snicket uses in the story make you feel the emotions that the Baudelaire children are going through. Count Olaf is nasty in more ways then one! Count Olaf treats the children like scum and makes them do all of his chores and some that he doesn't need done. Count Olaf is abusive to the children and even makes them cook dinner. Snicket has done a smashing job by writing this book and expressing the emotions of his characters and this book is a must read!
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Summary: mmmhmmm
Review: i am, and have been a pretty devoted fan to the series....i've read 1-9...and was unaware that 10 had already hit book stores, but nonetheless, i think this is a great book for young children. lemony snickett tells his stories in such a deep, strong tone, one can't help but find his style humorous. i believe that this book is for younger children, but it is an enjoyable read to a person of any age.
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Summary: Appropriate for young readers? Certainly.
Review: Other reviewers have questioned the suitability of this book for young readers; the purpose of my review is to offer an alternative opinion to those who think it unsuitable. Most of the adults are portrayed in these books as villainous or insensitive, though there are exceptions (eg. Justice Strauss in the first book). And this indeed is the crucial point: it is the children, by themselves, who are the heroes of these books. The author taps into the too-frequent reality of the world, which is that many children are often stuck in unfortunate situations, at the hands of cruel or simply uncaring adults (a very Dickensian motif). If the reader desires to find a moral in the story, let it be that children are truly resouceful, and their individuality and perceptiveness often overlooked by condenscending adults. It is the author's refusal to sugar-coat reality that makes these books truly valuable for young readers; for, in the end (though the endings are not overtly "happy") the children do inevitably avert the looming catastrophe. It is true that these books are dark, but not unnecessarily so.
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Summary: Fortunately, I Found This Unfortunate Book
Review: The Baudelaires may be unfortunate, but I was not so when I found this book.
Lemony Snicket, the author, tries to scare you away from reading the book, but don't listen!! This book is funny, smart, and a soon-to-be-classic, you have to read THE BAD BEGINNING.
Follow the hilarious and adventure-filled story of the Baudelaires, written by the very private Lemony Snicket.
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Summary: Unique book for kids and adults
Review: This is entertaining, well- written, and multi- leveled book was written by an author who recognizes children's right to read a book without being bombarded by morals and sappiness.
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Summary: Hmmm, What Is This?
Review: On the surface, this is the tragic story of three children, who are orphaned at the start of the story, and then things gets worse. The book is listed as having a reading level of 9-12, and the size of the book, as well as the vocabulary, agree with that. However, the entire book seems a tongue-in-cheek parody of children's books. The three orphans face so many tragedies and misfortunes, that the tragedy becomes absurdity. The narrator of the book has a habit of occasionally stopping the narration to define a word for the reader, as an adult would while reading a book to a child. However, some of the explanations have definite tones of dark humor, while others are perplexing, as the narrator will explain a moderately complex word nestled amongst several more complex words. The plot revolves around children, but includes death-threats, schemes to defraud the orphans out of their fortune, and a sham marriage of an adult to a minor by using legal loopholes.I enjoyed this book, and will likely move on to number two in the series. My advice to a perspective buyer: read the back cover, which Amazon.com helpfully includes in its excerpts; if you like the writing on that back cover, you will likely enjoy the book. But, please take that back cover seriously, as the author means what he says there.
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Summary: this is a great book to start this series
Review: This is a great book filled with mouth dropping events. once you get to about page 100, you can't stop reading. I would not recomend this to kids who like happy stories.
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Summary: For children and adults, these books are wise and wonderful
Review: I don't think the intention of Mr. Snicket's books was ever to teach vocabulary words to children--rather, he pokes fun at old-fashioned, Victorian children's books which emphasized things like vocabulary and morals over the joy of words, and a tale well-told. But these books are not without morals just because they are not didactic and preachy--consider how Violet, Klaus, and Sunny love one another and stick together against all odds, and how loyal they are to their friends, the Quagmire triplets. Don't underestimate children, they can appreciate irony and they especially know good stories when they hear them. Literature is so much more than vocabulary! Isn't the joy of reading important, too?
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Summary: Actually...
Review: ...there is a moral to the books. Not a bright moral, like "be a good child!" or "eat wheaties!" but an overall theme to the books. Obviously, I would not heed the warnings of someone who's read only the first two books. Most people who are negatively critical of the books, for whatever reason, have not read past the 4th or 5th books, on average. I've heard some people complain the books are inappropriate for children, and I've heard people complain the books are too boring for children. All have come to a premature conclusion--and honestly, what would it hurt to read all the books before making a judgement? They are not at all lengthy. I would certainly recommend these books to people of all ages, unless you are impatient, far too judgemental, or have very exact limited expectations of them.
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