The Reptile Room (A Series of Unfortunate Events No. 2)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Lemony Snicket New from £6.99 Used from £0.01 Pages: 212 (Hardcover) ISBN: 1405208686 Pub: Egmont Books Ltd Pub date: 1999-05-26 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 5581

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Top stuff (0/0 people found this helpful)

Many thanks-great price I paid for the books, both really brill. Would bu from the seller again without a problem.

A very fortunate book! (0/0 people found this helpful)

I have read every book in the series, and in my opinion this is the best. It is tragic, funny and extremely captivating. The next four books are of a similar standard, after which they become slightly over-complicated and a bit silly. However, this is an excellent literary treasure, and I would highly recommend it!

Snakes, car crashes and a really long knife (0/2 people found this helpful)

This book is about some scary snakes and in fact, in this book that now is being described as not that terrible (even though it is), the three siblings endure a car accident, a terrible odour, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a large brass reading lamp, and the reappearance of a person they'd hoped never to see again. It is as if misfortune is magnetic to the poor Baudelaire orphans. Beware: This book is very squemish and will give you nightmares, so please do not read unless you are lion hearted, risky and unafraid of ravenous reptiles. Rating for this book: A scary 9/ 10.

GRIM, GRAVE AND...UNPUTDOWNABLE!!!!!! (1/1 people found this helpful)

Though this series is famous for being sad and miserable, it is sometimes also slightly funny. At the beginning of the book, it says, 'To Beatrice-My love for you shall live forever. You, however, did not.' It is a wonderful, though miserable and true, beginning of the story. It spurs you on and you may feel like a voice is whispering to you, 'Go on, read it!' and the story is just as amusing as the creepy phrase to who the book is for.
It may take you to read the first book too to appreciate the rest of the series, but it is definately worth it.
This book is about three Buadelaire orphans who, I'm afraid wherever they go, drags woe and misery behind them. These children are intelligent, resourceful and kind. However, they had no luck. You may have thought they had a tiny drop of luck somewhere but the only luck they have is that they are alive. In fact, that may not be lucky because if they were dead, they wouldn't have had to be tormented by the woeful things that come their way.
In my opinion, this book is absoloutely fantastic and has clever ways of explaining you a tricky words that people may not know. How? You will never know unless you read the book...!

Courtesy of Teens Read Too (0/0 people found this helpful)

As the Baudelaire children--Violet, Klaus, and Sunny--narrowly escape the marriage scheme of Count Olaf and his theatre troupe of The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1), we pick up with Mr. Poe once again leading the children to the home of another relative. Dr. Montgomery Montgomery, a revered member of the Herpetological Society, is a man who has spent his life studying snakes. As the children arrive at his home, via Lousy Lane, they are at first leary of "Uncle Monty" and his REPTILE ROOM. They soon learn, however, that their newfound Uncle is a kind man, providing them each with their own room and entertaining activities that they each enjoy--space and materials to invent for Violet, books and a reading nook for Klaus, and plenty of biting material for Sunny.

As the orphans settle in to their new abode, Uncle Monty teaches them about snakes, most especially his new discovery, the Incredibly Deadly Viper. As we learn that said snake is a misnomer--the word "misnomer" here meaning "a wrong name"--the children become excited about the upcoming trip to Peru to study new snake life. Unfortunately, as most everything in the lives of the Baudelaire children is, Uncle Monty's new assistant, Stefano, is no other than Count Olaf in disguise.

Alas, just as with their previous adventures, no one listens to the children's concerns until it is too late. As Stefano aka Count Olaf threatens the children into silence, he begins to hatch his evil plan, which includes getting rid of the snake-loving doctor and absconding to Peru with the children, where he can wait for Violet to come of age, grab her fortune, and dispose of the children.

Saved in the nick of time--yet again--by a convoluted series of events, we find the children once again looking for a kind relative to care for them. As THE REPTILE ROOM ends, Mr. Poe drives off into the sunset with a miserable Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, and we wait to see which new series of unfortunate events will befall the children.

Another quick read, THE REPTILE ROOM is highly recommended depending on the maturity of your child. Another dark tale of misery and woe, this book is highly entertaining for those who understand that it's fiction.

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

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