The Carnivorous Carnival (2002)

This one was very dark since people got eaten alive by lions and the crowd were encouraging murder.
While this is good, this one can be viewed as problematic by the uncomfortable remarks about birth defects. One character says, "I thought people with birth defects were unfortunate, but they are hilarious" People are teased for being freaks and are deliberately put in the carnival to be humiliated.
However, this is where the question of being good or bad came in, it's where we question if you can be truly good or bad. We see the Baudelaires and how their morals have changed.
Also how the hell is having 2 equally strong hands freakish, I don't get it whatsoever, also hot dam is Esme cunning, possibly even more cunning then Olaf himself.

( )

children's fiction (comic tragedy with fun vocabulary-building)
I don't think I'll ever tire of Tim Curry doing Sunny's voice. ( )

I've been reading this series as bedtime stories with Milly, although I did have to go back and read a few myself that she had raced through, unable to wait for me to read them to her at the pace of one chapter a night. They are genuinely brilliant books, funny and dark, mysterious and absurd.

This one had a first page so good I shared it on social media and hopefully convinced a few other people to read these books to their kids. Things are very complicated in the VFD plot now and my 9yo is coming up with all sorts of wild theories as to what is going on. ( )

Absurd. Det känns väl sådär att karaktären med puckelrygg verkar ses som ett vattentätt monster. ( )

Why do adults suck so much? ( )