Les désastreuses Aventures des Orphelins Baudelaire, Tome 9: La Fête… (original 2002; edition 2004)

by Lemony Snicket

Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events (9)

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Title:	Les désastreuses Aventures des Orphelins Baudelaire, Tome 9: La Fête féroce
Authors:	Lemony Snicket
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The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket (2002)

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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 |

Z called this his least favorite of the series, but great. Kevin, the ambidextrous freak, is awesome.
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beckydj | Mar 31, 2013 |

I enjoyed this one more than 8, seemed to be more to it, and certainly more twists in the plot. I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next, although given all of the warnings from Mr Snicket, I'm a little worried that none of my questions will be answered satisfactorily, a word which here means, "the meaning of VFD and the secrets in the Snicket file will be revealed, and the books will end with the series wrapped up in a neat little package." I'm hooked, though, so it's off to the library to pick up #10. (

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ImperfectCJ | Dec 31, 2012 |

Snicket had some issues creating believable characters (even by the series' standard) in this book. Not wholly horrible, though. (

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benuathanasia | Sep 9, 2012 |

I'm a little torn about rhis book. Whilst I was fascinated about the overall plot and how the series will finish, I found this volume quite weak. As a stand-alone book the srory is quite poor and the text is not as witty as in previous books. Apart from one very rude joke :-) (

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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 Series of Unfortunate Events (9)

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The Carnivorous Carnival

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The Carnivorous Carnival

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2002-10-28

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Wyoming Indian Paintbrush Nominee (2004)

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For Beatrice -- Our love broke my heart, and stopped yours.

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When my workday is over, and I have closed my notebook, hidden my pen, and sawed holes in my rented canoe so that it cannot be found, I often like to spend the evening in conversation with my few surviving friends.

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Bald man with the long nose

Fauna of A Series of Unfortunate Events

Flora of A Series of Unfortunate Events

Klaus Baudelaire

The Carnivorous Carnival

Violet Baudelaire

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Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks?

A carnival is a place for good family fun - as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact, in this appalling ninth instalment in Lemony Snicket′s serial, the siblings must confront a terrible lie, a caravan, and Chabo the wolf baby. With millions of readers worldwide, and the Baudelaire′s fate turning from unpleasant to unseemly, it is clear that Lemony Snicket has taken nearly all the fun out of children′s books.

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On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.

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