A Series of Unfortunate Events
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As you should know Tuesdays is book blog day were we talk about one particular book and pretty much run with it. Today's blog is on A Series Of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.
A Series of Unfortunate Events is a thirteen book series as written by author Daniel Handler under the pen name Lemony Snicket. The books have a dark mysterious feel about them despite their classification as children's books. The books follow the turbulent lives of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire as they are placed with a murderous relative Count Olaf after their parents death in a fire. Count Olaf attempts to steal their inheritance with disastrous results as the children attempts to flee and are placed with various “Relatives” over the course of their journey. As the plot progresses the Baudelaire's gradually confront further mysteries surrounding their family and deep conspiracies involving a secret society known as the V. F. D. with connections not only to their parents and other relatives but Olaf too. The series is narrated by Lemony Snicket who dedicates his work to a deceased love interest, Beatrice, and often attempts to dissuade the reader from reading the story of the Baudelaire's.
A Bad Beginning
Dear Reader,
I'm sorry to day that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire children lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heals. One might say they are magnets for misfortune.
In this short book alone the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune and cold porridge for breakfast.
It is my sad duty to write these unpleasant tales, but there is nothing stopping you from putting this book down at once and reading something Happy, if you prefer that sort of thing.
With all due respect
Lemony Snicket.
A Bad Beginning Goodreads page
A very good book to start off a multi-book series, especially introducing the protagonists in the Baudelaire siblings and the antagonist in Count Olaf. The setting up of the Baudelaire's journey which starts with the death of their parents is very well structured and with how the Baudelaire siblings deal with definitely shows the difference between the adults inadequacy and the children's adequacy in dealing with the situations. I definitely recommend the book to pre-teens and give the book a 7/10. The Bad Beginning was published on September 30th 1999 by publishers Scholastic Inc.
The Reptile Room
Dear Reader,
If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. This story may seam cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don't be fooled. If you know anything about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even unpleasant events lead down the same road to misery.
In fact, within the pages you now hold in your hands, three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible odour, a deadly serpent a long knife, a large brass lamp, and the appearance of a person they'd never hoped to see again.
I am bound to record these tragic events, but you are free to put this book back on the shelf and seek something lighter.
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket.
The Reptile Room Goodreads Page
The reptile room is a brilliant secondary book and shows how the Baudelaire's flourish for a time under a semi-decent guardian. The creative way how the story turns on a dime and the guardian dies due to Count Olaf and how the children reveal his presence is great. I highly recommend this to pre-teens just like the last book and give it a 7/10. The Reptile Room was released on September 30th 1999 alongside The Bad Beginning by Publishers Scholastic Inc.
The Wide Window
Dear Reader,
If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kind-hearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad-luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all. If you haven't the stomach that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leaches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named pretty penny then this book will probably filly ou with despair. I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You , however should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endue this miserable story
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket.
The Wide Window Goodreads Page.
The wide window was a good third book in the series, with aunt Josephine being a great character whose both intelligent but prone to Hysterics. The disguise of Count Olaf and the children's reveal of him was brilliant in this book also. The Pre-teens will love this third book of the series and I give the book a 6/10. The Wide Window was released on February 25th 2000 by Publishers HarperCollins.
I have only read the first three books of A Series of Unfortunate Events as
such these are the only books alongside the 2004 movie and 2018 Netflix series in this blog, however the remaining books in the series are; The Miserable Mill, The Austere Academy, The Ersatz Elevator, The Vile Village, the Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival, The Slippery Slope, The Grim Grotto, the Penultimate Peril and The End.
Lemony Snicket's a series of Unfortunate Events was released to theatres across Europe, the US and Canada on December 17th 2004, earning $30.1 Million its first weekend to generally good reviews both on-screen and off with a 72% on Rotten Tomatoes. To me the movie was a good showing of the first three books with actors Jim Carey and Billy Connelly great as Count Olaf and Dr Montgomery Montgomery respectively. However since the movie didn't cover all 13 books or become a movie series was a let down. I recommand this to families and give it a 7/10.
The Netflix show is a good rendition of the book series as a whole with the books split almost evenly across the three series (S1: Books 1-4, S2: Books 5-9, Books 10-13). Neil Patrick Harris is great as Count Olaf and Patrick Warburton gives a dry comedic effect to Lemony Snicket. The children playing the Baudelaire's; Malina Weisman, Louis Hynes and Presley Smith are great choices for their roles and nailed them perfectly. I highly recommend the TV show to everyone, you don't have to read the series to understand it and I give the series a 9/10.
Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American Novelist Daniel Handler. Handler was born on February 28th 1970 in San Francisco, California. The son of retired college dean and accountant Sandra and Louis Handler. Handler is of Jewish decent through his father and distantly related to British writer through his mother.
Handler was a voracious reader since childhood and his favourite author was William Maxwell, Handler attended school in San Francisco and graduated from Wesleyan University in 1992, winning the Connecticut student poet prise the same year.
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WEBSITE BIBLIOGRAPHY:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Beginning
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78411.The_Bad_Beginning
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78418.The_Reptile_Room
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/438492.The_Wide_Window
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemony_Snicket
https://www.lemonysnicket.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemony_Snicket%27s_A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events_(TV_series)
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