NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESAs the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School, they can’t help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school’s motto Memento Mori or “Remember you will die.”This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snicket’s A … expect from Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.
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The three Baudelaire orphans have been sent to boarding school. Except Sunny isn’t old enough for school, so instead she works as an administrative assistant. Yeah. But Count Olaf is there, along with some of his henchmen, and even though the kids have been proven right each time they’ve made that claim in the past, Mr. Poe doesn’t believe them.
The author continues to be redundant, I suppose in an attempt at humor, but it’s done so often it’s just started to bother me along the way. But then again, this is not my kind of humor anyway—far too much injustice and even child abuse, none of which gets addressed or remotely amended, for my taste.
The formula that’s been so frustratingly followed for this series so far is broken slightly, in that the kids actually get to make some friends. But if you think that will work out well, you don’t know this series at all. It didn’t go the way I feared it would, and actually, I didn’t mind the way the story was left in the end, regarding the two friends. What I didn’t like is that the author nearly ruined the mild suspense provided by that ending, what made me feel, for a moment, at least, that I actually have an interest in the next story. Ah, well. I’ll continue on either way, because Tim Curry comes back with the next installment, and his narration is the only reason I got into any of this. I wouldn’t be continuing with this series if I wasn’t being read to by Tim Curry while I go about my day (except for the last 3 books, which I endured for the sake of…well, you get it).
All of the adults in these books are notoriously mean, dumb, or just ignorant. I think it’s over-exaggerated on purpose, but sometimes, I get so irritated while reading these books because the adults are awful.
I really enjoy the Quagmire triplets, and I am glad that the Baudelaires finally make some friends. And they’re really good friends. They put their own lives in danger to protect the Baudelaires, and it’s very sweet. Of course, since this is ‘The Series of Unfortunate Events’, things do not end happily.
We do get the smallest hint at V.F.D, which plays a pretty big role in the later books, and the deaths of the Baudelaire’s parents.
This book was enjoyable, and interesting because of the introduction of new characters. I am excited to continue this series.
This book takes a look into yet another foray by a despicable man into the lives of very unfortunate children. This simply means “another attempt by Count Olaf to steal the Baudelaire fortune for himself.”
The misfortunes continue for our protagonists, and this time at a severe school. With dreadful teaches, horrible bullies, and a vice principal who believes—falsely—that he is a musical genius, the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are worse than before. At least they meet a pair of triplets who can relate to their lives.
It is truly dreadful to follow lives as miserable as the Baudelaire orphans, but if you continue to desire information on their sad story, this book is the book for you.
Brilliant combination of tragedy and comedy. Snicket’s imagination is truly inimitable! He creates the most wonderful and most incredibly crazy characters!
Fun to read, great vocabulary builder.