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Summary: Top of my Lemony Snicket Scale
Review: This is a great book. I think it just might of been the best book I've ever read, but maybe not quite. I give all of Lemony Snicket's pieces a rating. This is my scale: The Bad Beginning O.K., The Reptile Room great, The Wide Window horrible, The Miserable Mill fabulous, The Austere Academy Excellent, The Ersatz Elevator wonderful, The Vile Village marvelous, The Hostile Hospital O.K, and The Carnivorous Carnival was a masterpiece. When my mom purchased it for me my face lit up. I was so happy.But if I had to criticize Lemony Snicket for anything, my criticism would be to revise The Wide Window thoughtfully and carefully. The plot to this story was fabulous. Madame Lulu reveals a secret about herself that can change the Baudelaire's life in the end unless the sequal differs. I am anxiously waiting for The Slippery Slope comes out: I will like to find out how two of the Baudelaires survive without one of their siblings in a caravan full of freaks, where Count Olaf will appear again, and if the sibling manages to survive. I recommend that you readThe Carnivorous Carnival.
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Summary: Back in the Belly of the Beast
Review: When we last left the Baudelaire orphans at the cliff-hanging ending of the 8th book in the Series of Unfortunate Events series, The Hostile Hospital, Sunny, Klaus and Violet were hiding in bullet hole-ridden trunk of Count Olaf's car on their way to parts unknown. As it so happens, the orphans are out of the frying pan into the fire in this new book, a phrase that herein means, "have gone from one bad situation where Violet was barely saved from certain unnecessary surgery, into a possible worse one by hiding in the trunk of the Count's car."The count, as it turns out, is barreling off with his troope of odd characters to the tent of Madame Lulu the fortune teller, who lives far out in the Hinterlands. Like other books in this Unfortunate Series, the orphans continue to be in mortal peril (a phrase that herein means "dreadful danger") as they avoid the clutches of Count Olaf. Managing to disguise themselves as carnival freaks, they take up residence in Madame Lulu's freak show aside a humpback, a contortionist and a very glum ambidexterous fellow who can use either hands equally well. Madame Lulu, who may not be all that she appears to be, has mysteriously always provided the Count with information about the Baudelaire trio, which finally explains how exactly he always knows where they are and how to find them. She drops hints that one of the orphan's parents may have survived the fire that apparently killed them back in book #1 (The Bad Beginning), and she gets oh-so-close to explaining the true meaning of VFD, and readers of the series and of Mr. Snicket's unauthorized biography are lead tantalizingly close to the answers for which they've sought about VFD and why Count Olaf, Jaques Snicket and Madame Lulu have tattoos or insignia of an eye on or about them. Pieces of the puzzle are just beginning to fit together, but not...quite... This is, of course, the ninth book in the series, and Mr. Snicket gives us some hints, as he always does, at the end of the story to the next book in the series, which I assume will be called "The Slippery Slope." Readers who have read up to this point will be delighted and enthralled by the mysteries that peek out here and there throughout the book, like prarie dogs peeking out of their burrows before quickly disappearing again. If you have not yet read books 1-8 in the series, it is recommended that you do so before attacking "Carnivorous Carnival", as much of what happens in this story won't make sense if you've not been following the sad lives of the Baudelaire orphans since the beginning. From this quiet part of the world ;) this reviewer and constant reader of the Series highly recommends this and other books in the series.
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Summary: Dreadfully great!!!!
Review: This book was my second favorite in the series, The Slippery Slope being first,(there is only ten out right now.) This is also my second favorite series, Harry Potter being my favorite series.
Fyi: *the movie is supposed to come out in September or October* *the authors real name is not Lemony Snicket, it is just the name he writes under* *There is going to be thirteen books(unlucky number)* *There is always thirteen (unlucky number) chapters in his books* *This series rocks*
If you do not want to know the plot of the story, then do not read the rest of my review.
Who: The three main characters in all the books are Sunny, Klause, and Violet.
When: This book takes place during modern times.
Where: This story takes place at a carnival.
pro's: We find out how Count Olaf always knows where the siblings go, we figure out what the eye stands for, and we know where the V.F.D headquarters is (just to name a few.)
con's: There simply weren't any!
***To make this book more enjoyable you should read the books in order***
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Summary: The Best Book
Review: The Carnivorous Carnival is a great book as well as the whole series. In each book Count Olaf disguises himself as someone different, then tries to kill the kids owners and capture the Baudelaire fortune.
In this particular book, Violet, Claus, and Sunny are in the trunk of his car and find costumes for their disguises. They are dressed up as a two-headed person and a baby wolf. They are at a carnival and are part of the freak show. Olaf finds out who they really are and wants to throw them in a pit of hungry lions. Violet creates an escape but does it work? To know the rest you'll have to read the book. Though it seems very violent, and the author does go on a bit about his personal life, it's a REALLY great book for anyone, whether you like to read or not. I recommend this book and the entire series to everyone, and whoever doesn't like it probably didn't even give it a chance. So be sure to read this great series (preferably from the first book on).
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Summary: The Carnivorous Carnival
Review: This book is very violent yet slightly funny tale.I am a 11 year old boy who has read all of the books in the series through number 9.This tale is written by Lemony Snicket,who is a very mysterious man.You barely get a glimpse of him.This tale is about three children(The Baudelaires)whose names are Violet(the oldest),Klaus(the middle child),and Sunny(the youngest).It is the ninth book in the series.This tale begins in the back of a evil man named Count Olaf"s car.They were going toward the Alpine Mountains to a place to a place called the Carnivorous Carnival.Throughout the story the Baudelaires are trying to find a way to get to the top of the Alpine Mountains to find there Mom without Count Olaf seeing.If you like mysterious,and exciting books you will like this book.
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Summary: responce to literture
Review: In the book The Series of Unfortunate Events The Carnivorous Carnival there are three children's names are Klaus, Sunny, and Violet. They are three children who are very unlucky and get into stuff they shouldn't get in to. Olaf captured the kids and what's to get the Baudelaire fortune. Violet, sunny, and Klaus find disguises and put them on. They dressed up like a two headed person and a bay wolf. Olaf finds out who they really are and tries to put them in a pit of hungry lions. Violet tries to escape but does it work read the book to find out. This book is very interesting and I think every one should read it.
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Summary: The Greatest book of the Series so far
Review: In A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Carnivorous Carnival, the Baudelaire children must find the meaning of V.F.D. and see if one of their parents is still alive. At first, the Baudelaire children must disguise themselves in order to blend in. They disguise themselves as a two-headed person and a wolf baby.
In the carnivorous carnival, Count Olaf and his gang ask Madam Lulu (the fortune-teller) to tell them where the Baudelaires are and more. To get Madam Lulu to tell them more, Count Olaf has to bribe her by buying lions for her to use in the show. While the Baudelaires are at the carnival, Violet and Klaus are the two-headed freak (Beverly and Elliot) and Sunny is the Wolf baby (Chabo). While they are there they meet the other freaks named Kevin (ambidextrous), Hugo (hunchback), and Colette contortionist). Also, Count Olaf has decided that each time the crowds came, they would take out a piece of paper to decide who would be thrown into the lion pit. To find out who will be thrown into the pit, you'll have to read this exciting book.
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Summary: The Carnivorous Carnival
Review: The Carnivorous Carnival
Author:Lemony Snicket
Reviewed by:J.Li
Period 1
The Baudelaire orphans went to a carnival with Count Olaf in the back of his car and were dressed up as freaks. They wanted to find out if one of their parents are still alive and this lady who can find answers to any questions just by looking into her cyrstal ball. However, they find out that the lady is part of the V.F.D. and the Baudelaires and she are planning for a escape. They also found out that the crystal ball is not magical and that she uses resources from libraries and newspapers to find the answers to the questions that people ask. At the end, the lady dies, Count Olaf takes Sunny away, throws Violet and Klaus into the mountains. I like this book because it starts another story at the end of the book. It makes you want to go straight to the next book and find out what happens. This way it makes the stories more exciting. I don't like this book because in every plot, if something good can happen, it always turns out bad-that's why it's called A Series of Unfortunate Events. You just want something good to happen and let the story end with a "happily ever after" but it never does. My favorite part of the book was when the Baudelaire find out that the lady with the crystal ball was a good person and that she was part of V.F.D, Madame Lulu. The Baudelaires could finally find out what V.F.D. stands for and where the headquarters is. My least favorite part of the book was when Madame Lulu gets killed and could not tell the Baudelaires the secrets of V.F.D. It could have turned out to be a happy ending but just because of that, it couldn't.
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Summary: A Freaky Adventure
Review: The Carnivorous Carnival, by Lemony Snicket, is the ninth book in the Series of Unfortunate Events. Like the other books in the series, this book is full of adventure. As you well know if you have read the other books in the series, the whole story is a big mystery of where the snicket file is, did the Baudelaire children's parents survive the fire and are they still alive, and what is Count Olaf up to and planning next. This is what Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, the three Baudelaires, ask themselves every morning when they wake up whether it's at the Austere Academy, in a house that is on a cliff over a lake of flesh eating leaches, or in Count Olaf's house itself. They are still trying to find the answers.
Count Olaf and the Baudelaires are at a carnival. Disguised as freaks, the Baudelaires try to find out what Count Olaf is up to. As the story goes along, Count Oalf figures out where the Baudelaire children are from a fake fortune-teller. Then, Count Olaf tries to dump the children into a pit of hungry lions, but they escape. I especially couldn't put the book down at the end when the Baudelaires are disguised as a baby wolf and a two headed jerk that can't eat an ear of corn. Violet and Klaus are about to be thrown into a pit of hungry lions that haven't eaten in days. The funny thing was how clever they were to have the most un-put together plan to escape, but I won't tell you what it was.
Another frightful and scary part was at the very end when Count Olaf found out that the two freaks were really the Baulelaires and then, as they were driving up the mountain, he cut the rope that was used to tie Count Olaf's black car to the wagon that Klaus and Violet were in. The wagon went down the mountain when the black car, that contained many villains and Sunny, went up. Count Olaf is definitely the protagonist. He is the one that comes up with all the plans and the disguises for all of his plans. That's where the Baudelaires got their disguises, from his trunk. It had stuff like makeup, beards, clothing, and accessories. What he wants is the Baudelaires' fortune. In the house fire, they lost everything except their fortune, and when one of the three children turns 18, they can access it. Count Olaf is waiting for one of them to turn 18, and then he is going to use them to steal it for himself. So, wherever the children go, Count Olaf follows them and uses different disguises to fool people, because Count Olaf is wanted by the police. For some reason, the children can always tell who he is, and they're trying their best to stay out of harms' way. This is a 5 star book, a real page-turner! If you are a person who likes suspense and mystery, then this book is for you. Still, if you are a wordy kind of person and love English, then this is also for you because there are words in the book that I didn't understand, but the author gave the definition in the text so I could understand what they were talking about. This is one of the better books in the series, and it leaves you hanging in suspense wanting and waiting to read the next book.
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Summary: Good Short Book
Review: The narration style in the books A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket is almost as unique and creative as the eccentric characters, the scary and interesting settings and the imaginative plots in the stories. The ninth book in the series, The Carnivorous Carnival, is no exception. Although it is hard to put a definite narration device on Lemony Snicket's writing style, it is closest to an non-participant, third person omniscient narration style. The narration in the story is from an unnamed character who is telling the story in flashback, where the events have already happened but no one (not the other characters in the story) knows the outcome except for the author, and even he is discovering events in a separate plot involving his beloved Beatrice as the series goes on. In fact, one of the major reasons that the narrator is investigating and telling the story of the Baudelaire children is in relation to a tragic happening to his Beatrice. In other books in the series, Snicket will give away key plot points to the audience (example: he told the reader that one of the secondary characters was going to be killed before the book's end, which is a very common thing in Snicket's morbid novels). Snicket's intriguing writing style helped to transport the audience into the world of the novels, which was a very complex and overwhelming place for the reader and the character both. In spite of the chaotic narration style, the books make you want to keep reading them, leaving you anxiously awaiting the next book in the series once you're done.
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