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

click here for more details, find new or used items	Lemony Snicket Our price £5.24 (£6.99) New from £0.60 Used from £0.54 Pages: 212 (Hardcover) ISBN: 1405208686 Pub: Egmont Books Ltd Pub date: 2003-05-26 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11096

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Snakes, car crashes and a really long knife (9/9 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!!!!!! (0/0 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...!

funny childrens book that adults will like too (2/6 people found this helpful)

I bought my nephew the first 6 books a couple of years ago but he was a bit young at the time, when he did finally pick them up he couldn't put them down.

he absolutely loved them. They are easy to read and are not too long that you get bored in parts ike i found with harry potter and the order of the phoenix.

Its a childrens booked aimed at children with no filler.
Its the innocence of children against the evil that is adults!!!
Great for children boys and girls they will all love it.

WHAT AN AMAZING BOOK! (4/4 people found this helpful)

I am a fan of the series of unfortunate events and this book is related to the first book. This book is about the Baudelaire orphans who are Sunny, Klaus and Violet. This time they went and stayed with a relative Dr. Montgomery who is a herpetologist who studied snakes. He treated them well and the Baudelaries were happy. But one day, the worst thing in the world happened, Count Olaf, who wanted to get their fortune pretended to be Stephano and he went in and lived with the orphans. He will do any terrible things to get the fortune. Lemony Snicket stays faithful to the first book, the Baudelaries were unhappy, the evil Count Oalf returned and the writing style of the book is unchanged. It is exciting to read this book and I will recommened this book to everyone, but be warned, everything will be unpleasant.

Still unfortunate, still great (30/37 people found this helpful)

Lemony Snicket stays faithful to his strategy in the first book in this series, the Baudelaire siblings are still going through unhappy situations, the vicious Count Olaf is back, and the author's writing style remains unchanged. The book is fun to read and I recommend it to people of all ages, but please pay heed to the warning the author presents in the back cover. In essence, this warning is: if you are looking for a happy story, go search elsewhere.

After Count Olaf's plan to get the Baudelaire orphans money failed, he was lucky enough to escape. The three siblings, Violet (the inventor), Klaus (the reader) and Sunny (the biter) are placed with a relative in the country. Dr. Montgomery is a herpetologist, thus he studies snakes, and he receives the three children in an extremely friendly and loving way. Uncle Morty teaches the kids about snakes and reptiles and everyone is living happily, but grimmer times will soon arrive. Count Olaf reappears and he is meaner than before, his plot to obtain the riches from Baudelaire orphans is heinous and the count will stop at nothing to achieve his goal.

The author continues using the technique of defining words that do not need be defined in his attempt to ridicule some children books. He even lets Klaus express the frustration some readers may feel when Mr. Poe is explaining to him what ridicule means and Klaus snaps back "I know what 'ridicule' means". Snicket also shows what a great sense of humor he has and he uses it to criticize some legendary classics, like Little Red Riding Hood and The Boy Who Cried Wolf. For example, in the case of the latter, he states that the moral of the story is not that people should not lie, but "Never live somewhere where wolves are running around loose". I am looking really forward to read the next installment in this enchanting series.

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