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I've decided that this series is too repetitive, and the tone of the books too annoying -- pedantic and condescending -- so I'm not going to finish reading it. Just reading the first book was fine, but more than that was a trial.

(You can see this same review on the other books in this series I have shelved. Sorry. I don't like shelving just part of a series, and my review might help someone... I have more detailed reviews of the first three books here, here and here.) (

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shanaqui | Apr 9, 2013 |

OK, so this one (and the previous one)wasn't that bad. The series as a whole is still an exercise in irritation, but it seems like the closer one gets to the last book in the series, the more life Daniel Handler brings to the books. Maybe he's as sick of the whole thing as we are by now. (

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stewartfritz | Apr 4, 2013 |

Z actually screams out loud during important plot points during our Lemony Snicket time. No exception here. As a read-aloud, this was the toughest, only because of the liberal use of "Aye," which is just not fun for me . . . but Z continues to love Mr. Handler and his wonderful way with not just story, but with language. (

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beckydj | Mar 31, 2013 |

Beginning with The Slippery Slope, these books seem to be more involved than the previous couple in the series. As with The Slippery Slope, more character development, more twists and turns, and I learned a lot about the water cycle. Mr Snicket would likely suggest that I read Melville or Browning or even Edgar Guest rather than finish out the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans, but I'm going to take my chances and read on. (

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ImperfectCJ | Dec 31, 2012 |

A strange episode in the sage, but good nonetheless. Here our questions start to get answered and even more questions are asked. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Snicket, Lemony	—	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Helquist, Brett	Illustrator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kupperman, Michael	Illustrator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Curry, Tim	Narrator	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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A Box of Unfortunate Events (10-12) The Gloom Looms by Lemony Snicket

A Box of Unfortunate Events (01-11) The Cumbersome Collection by Lemony Snicket

A Box of Unfortunate Events (01-12) The Horrendous Heap by Lemony Snicket

The Complete Wreck by Lemony Snicket

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The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events [CD] by The Gothic Archies

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A Series of Unfortunate Events (11)

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The Grim Grotto

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The Grim Grotto

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2004-09-21

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For Beatrice -- Dead women tell no tales. Sad men write them down.

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After a great deal of time examining oceans, investigating rainstorms, and staring very hard at several drinking fountains, the scientists of the world developed a theory regarding how water is distributed around our planet, which they have named "the water cycle."

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"Dear God! Holy Buddha! Charles Darwin! Duke Ellington! Aye! ..."

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It's tough when the things that stand between you and your desired sugar bowl are a host of deadly mushrooms and an uncomfortable diving suit. The unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves in deep (once again) in this eleventh book in Lemony Snicket's odd-and-full-of-woe-but-quite-funny Series of Unfortunate Events. In The Grim Grotto, the siblings find themselves headed down Stricken Stream on a broken toboggan when they are spotted by the submarine Queequeg, carrying Captain Widdershins, his somewhat volatile stepdaughter Fiona, and optimistic Phil from Lucky Smells Lumbermill. The adventures that follow as the crew tries to get to the aforementioned sugar bowl before Count Olaf are so horrible that the narrator inserts factual information about the water cycle so that readers will get bored and stop reading the book. It doesn't work. As per usual, readers will want to soak up every awf! ul detail and follow the Baudelaires all the way back to the place we first met them--Briny Beach. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson

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Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.

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