So I have been very busy week with study and homework and more study, but of coarse I still made time for reading. Actually I surprisingly I finished two books this week and started the next one.. I can’t tell If that’s a good thing or a bad thing.. I’m going to say a good thing. Okay, lets get down to business. Lemony Snicket. If you don’t know the name.. get your butt onto the internet and look this genius up. NOW. I’m NOT kidding. Stop reading this and go. ……… okay, your back? You know all about his greatness? Yes. Okay. Now lets get down to business for real.
Before you consider reading “Who Could That Be at This Hour?” ask yourself these questions:
1. Are you curious about what is happening in a seaside town that is no longer by the sea?
2. Do you want to know more about a stolen item that wasn't stolen at all?
3. Do you think that’s any of your business? Why? What kind of person are you? Really?
4. Who is that behind you…
I don’t know about you but when I read that for the first time in easons I looked behind me to find a little kid with pony tails staring at me. It was terrifying. But even though this is a good, mysterious piece to put on the back of a book, It doesn't really tell you what the story’s about. So that’s why I’m going to write one that tells you exactly what it’s about.
In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read. This is the first volume.
It may not make that much sense but I really do recommend you read it. If you have read ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ then you know what I’m talking about when I say that Lemony Snicket’s books are perfect nonsense and also perfectly serious and logical. He is just brilliant when it comes to the way he writes and the way he words the scene or the characters.
“It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.”
“The library was one enormous room, with long, high meta shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.”
“There’s an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch out nine rows of fourteen squares each. Then throw the piece of paper away and find whoever is screaming so you can help them. It is no time to fiddle with paper.”
I really enjoyed this book and I am looking forward to reading the next three. I have to confess I haven’t finished ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ yet. I am a failure... No, but I have good reasons.
1. I just haven’t had time, I'm always busy saving the world and what not.
2. Of course in Dundalk they don’t actually have the books.. they never do..
I’m going to wait till Christmas or till I have money and order them. I have read one and two and they were amazing but I will get round to the rest.
Okay, back to “Who Could That Be at This Hour?” It was really good I mean really, really good. I would give it five out of five and recommend it to all ages. Even though Lemony is absolutely bonkers, completely mad, over the edge, He still did a fricken amazing job at writing this book.
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