Product Description

Like an off-key violin concert, the Roman Empire, or food poisoning, all things must come to an end. Thankfully, this includes "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket. The final installment in Mr Snicket's baker's dozen of books will answer readers' most burning questions: Will Count Olaf prevail? Will the Baudelaires survive? Will the series end happily? If there's nothing out there, what was that noise? Then again, why trouble yourself with unfortunate resolutions? Avoid the thirteenth and final book of Lemony Snicket's international bestselling series and you'll never have to know what happens.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6991 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 368 pages

From the Author
The end has neared - and my secret revealed...

About the Author
Mr Snicket has spent the last several eras researching the travails of the Baudelaire orphans. During his spare time, he gathers evidence and is considered something of an expert by leading authorities. Lemony Snicket published his first book in 1999 and has not had a good night's sleep since. To his horror and dismay, he has no wife or children, only enemies, associates, and the occasional loyal manservant. Lemony Snicket's extended family, if they were alive, would describe him as a distinguished scholar, an amateur connoisseur, and an outright gentleman.

Customer Reviews

A Great Ending To The Series
I had bought the first ten, and had the last 3 for christmas. I finished the three in about 2 weeks. The series had me gripped from the start, from the weird disguises of Count Olaf to the pointless descriptions and totally off the point paragraphs written by the extremely talented Lemony Snicket. An excellent series that I would recommend to anyone and everyone.

The End...
This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you read the last twelve books full of courageousness, you probably can't stand such unpleasantness as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents. This book doesn't completely finish of the series because at the end of `The End' there is the first chapter of `The Last' which continues the story even further. I think this book is the worst and least frightening or full of bad luck. They are stranded in the sea - they come onto an island, they are hungry and thirsty - they get nourished, they want to find out about their parents - they do. So as you can clearly see this book isn't too bad. And there is a very unusual twist to 'The End'.

A lot of people will be mad! Personally I liked it.
Those who expect to get a sense of closure after reading The End are in for a sad disappointment, as the book offers little to no answers.

However after reading the book myself, I think that the book works rather well, if not by being a conclusion to a series, then by fitting well with its own themes.

I'm divided as to whether or not this is a cowards exit, while at the same time offering something a bit different and less cliché than most endings or those where the solution of the darkest mysteries are sadly disappointing.

All in all, a good book as long as you don't expect any answers.