Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #359701 in Books
• Published on: 2001-06-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 162 pages

Customer Reviews

a series of unfortunate events
the books themselves had some really good ideas in them but i dont think that the author did them any favours, some pages dragged on for hours whilst others skipped past.
annoyingly only being 14 at the time i felt that i was too old for the story, as on every other page lemony snicket insisted on interupting the story to explain a word that he had just used. a found this annoying because although you just wanted to read on it made you feel stupid, having to have someone explaining stuff to you

The best book
This book makes you take into consider that not everyone is that fortunate to live a happy life. Such as those Baudelaire youngsters lost theb their parents.The horrible repulsive foster father plays around with their fortune they work there socks off and one day they get there own back...

Unfortunate indeed!
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book". Thus starts the first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, telling the reader that this is not a happy story. And it certainly isn't.
In this book you meet the Beaudelaire children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, who fall into the clutches of a fiend, and have many horrible adventures.
But despite all the miserable events, this book is fun to read. The style of the author is concise and the tone is light and humorous. Filled with beautiful illustrations, this book is a good read for children, but also for some of us adults that refuse to grow up.