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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. 1   JordanLangston | Nov 21, 2009 |  I think the plot was good, so it's a pity that it's ruined by the author's attempt at making the book 'educational'. It gives the books a very forced feel and sort of ruins it for me. For instance, often several pages are taken up just with a long and completely unnecessary explanation of a word, and how many times do you need to write the word 'never' in order to convey that it's not safe to mess around with electrical sockets? Surely not enough times to fill three pages. People keep talking about the 'dark humour' in these books. I don't find it particularly dark at all, just irritating. The Grim Grotto was, I think, my favorite from the series. But just as I was starting to think the plot was getting nice and dark and actually captivating, along came the 'humerous overtone which takes the edge off the terrible things the children experience' (roughly quoted from another review). That's what I don't like about it - 'taking the edge off' disrupts the plot and stops me from really getting into the books. so far I haven't found anyone else who has notice this aspect of the book, which I find strange because its so obvious, or if they have noticed they don't seem to be worried by it. I probably sound pretty harsh, so don't get me wrong, I really enjoyed this series. It was entertaining, but I couldn't really get into it. (  ) fleurfleming | Oct 21, 2009 | Not quite the "whiz bang" ending you would expect, but it was satisfactory. Mainly because it's the end of one story, but not "THE END" of the Beaudelaires' story. There are still a few loose ends that don't get tied up and that's nice because life is like that. I thoroughly enjoyed this series which I thought was petering out around Book the Fourth, but things turned around. (  ) GBev2009 | Oct 13, 2009 | I Loved This Series =D (  ) Luiise | Oct 4, 2009 | I'm going to review all four of the last books in this series in one review, since I read them all at one go due to the quick plot pacing, and now they've mushed together in my brain. These are wonderful! When I first started, this series, I was underwhelmed, but Snickett grows up his books like he grows up the Baudelaires. Unlike many coming-of-age stories, this one manages to avoid the trite and the untrue. Despite Snickett's fantastical style and plot twists, there is deep reality at the core of these books, which manage to show the world in all its nastiness and how difficult it is to be a 'volunteer instead of a villain,' and yet it conveys the desperate need for each of us to try. It also teaches voculary, is subtley hilarious if you already have a big one, and imparts a love of science, literature, poetry, and even good cooking. Highly recommended for all the young, and old, people in your life! ( ) hjjugovic | Oct 3, 2009 |  no reviews | add a review
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A Series of Unfortunate Events | Great Unknown (A Series of Unfortunate Events) |
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The situation quickly and--this being the Baudelaires--predictably deteriorates. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny find themselves tossed in a storm so terrible that our beloved narrator spends four pages describing how he cannot describe it. From this point on, fans of the series' smarty-pants wordplay and acrobatic narrative can rest assured that they're in for more of the same (and how) in this 368-page finale, and Daniel Handler's deadpan Snicket continues to tutor a generation in self-referential humor (including one particularly funny bit regarding three very short men carrying a large, flat piece of wood, painted to look like a living room). Snicket notes, of course, that if you read the entire series, "your only reward will be 170 chapters of misery in your library and countless tears in your eyes."
There's one big question, though, for anyone who's made it through "the thirteenth chapter of the thirteenth volume in this sad history": is the final book a fitting end? That question is probably best-answered by one of The End's most oft-repeated phrases: It depends on how you look at it. Those looking for conclusive resolution to the series' many, many mysteries may be disappointed, although some big questions do get explicit answers. Not surprisingly for a work so deliberately labyrinthine, though, even the absence of an answer can be sort of an answer--and reaction to The End can be something of a Rorschach test for readers. Or, as Lemony Snicket says, "Perhaps you don’t know yet what the end really means." --Paul Hughes
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After destroying the Hotel Denouement in the Penultimate Peril, the Baudelaire orphans and Count Olaf have escaped to the seas, heading to an unknown destination. After an ubnexpected storm, they are swept to the shore of a mysterious, lone, island -- which has a community of white-robed people.
The Baudelaires successfully gain entry, Count Olaf however after announcing he is king of the island is denied to have anything to do with the island. The Baudelaires discover a rotten plot beneath the sands of the island, and of course an evil plot of Count Olaf's emerges too as he appears with the helmet of Medusoid Mycelium...
I'm tired of reviewing today so I'll see if I can be arsed to review it another time. Yeahh, good end to the series, still, doesn't tie up the loose ends... (