The Slippery Slope #10 (Series of Unfortunate Events) |
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Lemony Snicket
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Pages: 337 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 1405210869
Pub: Egmont Books Ltd
Pub date: 2004-05-06
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3278
Editorial Review:
Clocking up a whopping 337 pages, The Slippery Slope is the longest volume in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events so far, but Book the Tenth reads so easily and is so entertaining that it actually feels half that length. With only three more books to go now before this popular saga ends, probably miserably, there is now much more of a sense of a single over-arching storyline that is heading towards big revelations and cataclysmic conclusions.
All the familiar, well-loved elements of a Lemony Snicket adventure are here again, and the action picks up where it left off at the end of Book the Ninth, The Carniverous Carnival. Violet and Klaus, the oldest of the three Baudelaire orphans, are plummeting down a mountainside in an out-of-control caravan, certain to be smashed to smithereens at any second. Travelling up the mountain in a car is their youngest sibling, Sunny, who has been kidnapped by Count Olaf, his girlfriend Esme Squalor, and their scurrilous sidekicks. Olaf, as ever, is evil and mean and never lets up in his desire to snatch the children's inherited fortune. He really is a villain with a one-track mind.
Violet and Sunny set about saving themselves, then their sister, and then navigating through the Mortmain Mountains to stop their nemesis from committing more really bad deeds. The plotline is as tortured, hilarious and annoying as ever--with tangents explored at every turn--but it's so good nobody will really mind. There are tantalising clues that hint at a Baudelaire parent being alive after all, more possibilities about the secret organisation VFD and help from an unexpected ally.
The author is more careful than ever, now that he is down to writing only one bumper book a year, to give fantastic value for money. The gag quotient per page is stunningly high, and consistently good. The Grim Grotto cannot arrive a moment too soon. (Age 9 and over) --John McLay
Reader Reviews:
A very slippery slope story (7/7 people found this helpful)
Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness during their harrowing journey up - and down - a range of strange and distressing mountains. In order to spare you any further repulsion, it would be best not to mention any of the unpleasant details of this story, in particular a secret message, a toboggan, a deceitful trap, a swarm of snow gnats, a scheming villain, a troupe of organized youngsters, a covered casserole dish, and a surprising survivor of a terrible fire. The rating for this book given by me is: 7/ 10.
BEST YET.GREAT READ. (0/0 people found this helpful)
I think this was Lemony Snicket's best book.And i would know.I've read every single book written by him and i love them all.This book climbed up the slippery slope of criticism with ease and i absolutely loved it.I can't see why hardly any other people like it.It was my favourite book in my favourite.And believe me, i am way hard to please.Hardly any authors manage to make me want to read every book they've written, every book about them, any book that mentions their name, even if it only mentions them once.But Lemony Snicket has succeeded in making me want to do that.And believe me, i have done that.No page mentioning Snicket's name has failed to be anylised by me until the colour fades out of it and the ink starts to smudge.Lemony Snicket is one of the greatest authors of his time.
slipping a bit (1/7 people found this helpful)
In my opinion I think that the other books were excellant but this one is as the title, slipping a bit. The others had description but not too much but this one I am ashamed to say has way too much description and is by far the bad book of his series.
The best ASOUE book (4/5 people found this helpful)
A series of Unfortunate Events continues with Klaus and Violet going down a mountain in a caravan, separated from their baby sister Sunny. But thanks to Violet's ingenious they survive and trek up the mountain to find Sunny. Along the way they meet vicious snow gnats, the snow scouts and someone believed to be dead.
This is the best book from the eleven, but at least three Harry Potter books are better. But this is a better series as all the books join on together and it stopped becoming repetitive. This is written in Lemony Snicket's unique and funny style.
Great reading material (3/3 people found this helpful)
This book is possibly (in my opinion) one of the best Series of Unfortunate Events books I've read. My heart was racing at the start of the book, I didn't think Violet and Klaus would make it out alive. But they proved me wrong and this installment turned out to be a very compelling adventure. I was quite disappointed though that Count Olaf didn't put on a disguise like he normally does. But apart from that eveything else was brilliant. It even gave a few hints as to what book 12 is about. And as always Lemony Snicket gave us a few depressing anecdotes. I also liked the Cliffhanger ending and I can't wait to read the Grim Grotto. All in all, a good read.
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