Lemony Snicket week 1-3

Okay, this is the first ‘Lemony Snicket week’. This week I’ll be reviewing the first three books in the ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’. The names of the three books are ‘The Bad Beginning’, ‘The Reptile Room’ and ‘The Wide Window’. If you have seen the movie then you will understand why I am reviewing the first three all together. If not, I’ll tell you. The movie is based on the first three books but when I saw the movie I thought it was brilliant and that the movie would be the first book. Actually it’s the first three all squished together, But it was really good I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately I’m not here to review the movie, I’m here to review the books.

I have been sitting here for over twenty minutes thinking of how to make this work. How to review a series of books every second week and make each review as unique as the last. I don’t know the answer to how yet but I’m sure it will come to me. I hope.

On the back of every book there is always the description of what the overall plot is. For these books it’s different, But good kind of different. It has.. Well.. Hmm.. I’m exactly sure how to word it, So I’ll show you a bit of one, because there quite long, my favorite one, on the back of ‘The Bad Beginning’:

Dear Reader, 

I’m sorry to say 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 siblings 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 heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune. 

I really love the way the author narrates the story, It’s really funny at times when he’d even bring himself in for examples in some of there situations the children are in.

Now for the actual plot of the series. The Baudelaire’s misfortunes come into play when they receive the awful news from Mr. Poe, a Banker in charge of their enormous fortune, to say that their house has burned down and their parents has died in the incident. Requested in their parents will that their guardian must be a relative, they are sent off to live with Count Olaf who they actually have never heard of or seen. When they begin living with Olaf they realize what a terrible person he is and the plans he has up his sleeve to steal the Baudelaire fortune left by their parents, by any means possible. Even if it means murder.

Now to introduce the Baudelaire siblings. Violet Baudelaire is a fourteen-years-old. You can tell she is thinking hard when her long hair is tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet has a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain is often filled with images of pulleys, levers and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair.

Klaus Baudelaire is the middle child, The only boy, a little older than twelve who wears glasses. Klaus loved to read, everything he would read he would remember. He knew how to tell an alligator from a crocodile. He knew who killed Julius Caesar. And he knew much about the tiny, slimy animals found at Briny Beach.

Sunny Baudelaire, the youngest, liked to bite things. She is an infant, and very small for her age, scarcely larger than a boot. What she lacks in size, however, she makes up for with her four small, yet sharp teeth.

“…you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.”

“There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different.”

“In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle.” 

“This is my knife. It is very sharp and very eager to hurt you.”

“For Beatrice--My love for you I shall live forever. You, however, did not.” 

I really am enjoying these books and I can’t wait to review some more of them in two weeks. There all the things I love in a great book, Morbid, creepy, the use of vocabulary and … Unfortunate.