The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events No. 3)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Lemony Snicket New from £3.99 Used from £0.01 Pages: 228 (Hardcover) ISBN: 1405208694 Pub: Egmont Books Ltd Pub date: 2003-06-09 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18417

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BRILLIANT BOOK, WE'RE ADDICTED TO THE SERIES (0/0 people found this helpful)

I READ THESE WITH MY SONS EVERY NIGHT AND WE ARE NOW ON BOOK 6.
DESPITE LEMONY SNICKETS WARNING THAT THESE BOOKS DO NOT HAVE HAPPY ENDINGS, WE JUST CANNOT HELP BUT READ ON TO SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
COMPULSIVE READING AND VERY IMAGINATIVE, EVEN FUNNY IN SOME PLACES!

Why authors should stick to writing, not narrating!!! (0/0 people found this helpful)

My oldest two children requested this audio book and I was subjected to it during car journeys. Although I personally find the Baudelaire family's bad luck a bit too cringeworthy for my taste, Tim Curry's excellent reading had made the first two books tolerable. What a shock it was, then, to switch this on and hear a monotonous voice with little change of intonation for different characters, or even different emotions. I could hardly believe that anyone would pay an actor to read that badly, and it seems they didn't; Lemony Snicket reads the book aloud. Looking at newer listings, it seems that Tim Curry may have recorded the whole series now - at least on the boxed set - so if you want an audio version, be careful which one you buy.

Disaster, danger and death (0/0 people found this helpful)

If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book of dismay will probably fill you with despair. Though it is very miserable this book is also very puzzling because there is a code that needs to be cracked. Missing people and a very wide window crash may frighten you in this terrifying book. Beware! This book is for only children under 16 and not a peek from an adult is allowed. Plus kids under seven must not read even a sentence in this horrible book. Rating: 8/ 10.

One of my favourite Lemony Snicket books (2/2 people found this helpful)

This book and The Erzats Elevator are my favourite books written by Lemony Snicket. The plot to this one is more intriguing than most of the others as it involves more exciting chapters. The chapters I am refering to are the ones where they are sailing in a hurricane and the leeches are attacking.

Lemony Snickets writing style is quite funny at times but it can also be quite tiresome after a while. I can't help but wish tha a more talented author had come up with the idea for this series and written it better.

I reccomend this series of books and especially this book but if you read the whole series I must warn you that the end of the series is terrible.

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

Those poor Baudelaire orphans. After the death of their beloved Uncle Monty, the third installment of Lemony Snicket's tale has Violet, Klaus, and Sunny heading toward the home of yet another new guardian. Left by Mr. Poe at Damocles Dock at the edge of Lake Lachrymose for the taxi that will take them to the home of Josephine Anwhistle, the orphans must once again wonder about what fate holds in store for them. Will the gramatically correct dowager be kind like Uncle Morty, or retched like Count Olaf?

It turns out that Aunt Josephine is a mixture of the two. Although she welcomes them into her home, the woman is so terrified by everything--the stove, glass doorknobs, radiators, and even realtors--that the children are hard pressed to enjoy their dinners of cold cucumber soup and their presents of a baby doll, train set, and rattle. Living high above the Lake that is full of the leeches that devoured Josephine's husband, Ike, the three Baudelaire children have a hard time convincing their Aunt to even leave the house.

On a trip to the market, however, who should appear once again with yet another despicable plan to steal the Baudelaire fortune but Count Olaf--this time in the disguise of Captain Sham, a man with an eye patch and peg leg who has opened a boating company of his own. Josephine, of course, is at once enamored of the dashing Captain, and Mr. Poe, as always, is not convinced by the children's claim that Captain Sham and Count Olaf are one and the same. What follows is another does of typical Baudelaire fair--diabolical plans, a terrible hurricane named Herman, a bizarre restaurant named the Anxious Clown, a boat ride across a leech-filled lake, a rescue at Curdled Cave, and another meet-up with Count Olaf's nasty associates.

THE WIDE WINDOW is another winning story in the tales of the Baudelaire orphans. The story took me about an hour and a half to read, and is suitable for children around ages 9 and up. Again, however, you'll need to base your decision of its suitability based on the maturity of your children, as this book is just as dark as the first two.

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

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