The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events No.1)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Lemony Snicket New from £0.01 Used from £0.01 Pages: 162 (Hardcover) ISBN: 0749746114 Pub: Egmont Books Ltd Pub date: 2001-06-07 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 128094

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a series of unfortunate events (0/0 people found this helpful)

the books themselves had some really good ideas in them but i dont think that the author did them any favours, some pages dragged on for hours whilst others skipped past.
annoyingly only being 14 at the time i felt that i was too old for the story, as on every other page lemony snicket insisted on interupting the story to explain a word that he had just used. a found this annoying because although you just wanted to read on it made you feel stupid, having to have someone explaining stuff to you

The best book (0/0 people found this helpful)

This book makes you take into consider that not everyone is that fortunate to live a happy life. Such as those Baudelaire youngsters lost theb their parents.The horrible repulsive foster father plays around with their fortune they work there socks off and one day they get there own back...

Unfortunate indeed! (0/0 people found this helpful)

"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book". Thus starts the first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, telling the reader that this is not a happy story. And it certainly isn't.
In this book you meet the Beaudelaire children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, who fall into the clutches of a fiend, and have many horrible adventures.
But despite all the miserable events, this book is fun to read. The style of the author is concise and the tone is light and humorous. Filled with beautiful illustrations, this book is a good read for children, but also for some of us adults that refuse to grow up.

SPECTACULAR (1/1 people found this helpful)

This book is a must read.
Lemony Snicket is a great writer who is dedicated in pleasing the reader, his storys are exiting yet at the same time scary.
A series of unfortunate events like its name involves 3 children who are most unfortunate but somehow always seem to wriggle out of the imposible.
If you red this book you'll end up reading all 10 trust me i'm hooked.

Not a Bad Beginning at All (13/13 people found this helpful)

The Baudelaire siblings are enjoying a day at the beach when Mr. Poe comes walking through the fog to find them. He has very bad news. Their house has burned to the ground and their parents are dead. To honor their father's wishes, they are sent to live with Count Olaf across town. He treats them like slaves. But that's just the beginning. He also wants to take over their trust fund, and will stop at nothing to do so.

I really didn't know what to think about this series. But some friends highly recommended it to me, so I decided to give it a try. And I'm glad I did. This book is rather dark for a kid's book, with lots of sarcasm and dark humor, as well as some tragic events. It does require a certainly level of maturity to be appreciated by kids or adults. I was really taken with the kids, however. Violet and Klaus pull together and don't let anything stop them from trying to make the most of a bad situation. I wish more people, including me, were like that. And Sunny constantly made me smile with her sudden outbursts. The set up of the plot was fairly obvious to me, but I didn't see the ending coming before it happened. My only real complaint was the narrator's habit of interrupting a story to define a word that had just been used. It got annoying seeing this on every few pages.

Take the warning on the back seriously. These are dark books. But they are certainly enjoyable as well.

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