Product Description

The Baudelaire siblings suffer all sorts of misfortunes in this, the fourth book of their adventures.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4436 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-09
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

Coupons, Casseroles and cloud of smoke
The pages of this book, I'm sorry to inform you, contain such nasty nonsense as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons that it will make you have bad dreams till you are 21. The Miserable Mill might be the unhappiest place yet for Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are sent to Paltryville to work in a lumber mill, and they find disaster and misfortune lurking behind every log.

Lost the Plot
While I enjoyed the first three books in this series, I did find them very monotonous.

Then I got to The Miserable Mill. It HAS to be said: how many more times can the author write exactly the same story? Book 4 is the same as the first 3: orphans have yet another home, yet again they are treated badly and yet again Count Olaf is after them in yet another disguise. And yet again no-one believes them. Yet again the orphans prove it's Olaf and yet again Olaf makes an escape to be free to come after them again in the next book. Enough already!

It's the same exact plot every time, the only difference being the location and a handful of new people. I'm wondering how long the author is going to keep this up. He's getting money for old rope in publishing these: he doesn't have to put much work into them as they're all so similar!

The only BIG difference with this one is that it is EVEN more implausible than the last 3. Instead of being sent to another relative, this time the 3 orphans (including the baby) are put to work in a lumber mill along with other adult to do back-breaking manual labour. It wasn't even that interesting, I found it hard to get through because it did little to capture the reader in any way, It was just plain dull.

I'm gonig to give it one more shot. I will read book 5 and if it's not any better than this, I'm giving up with this series.

brandons report
i have read all of the books, i think lemony snicket is very good book and if you have read any ather books by the arther
lemony snicket pleas contact me on my home number wich i will
give at the end. so back to the report,ihave met bret halqist
who elestrats the book,and i am going to rite abot the astir academy book five.the bodelers travel to the quagmir tripelits
will be stolen by CONT OLAF. you probely no cont olaf is, well ok hi is a man who dispretly wonts the bodelers fortune,
so the bodelers go to the head techer of a bording school
called pricket prepetory school, and it hade a nasty gerl called
carmilita sparts and she wos relly nosty.and this is wen the bodelers mete the quagmir treplets. and thay gete snacht by CONT OLAF!and in book seven the bodelers save them.
ok hers my number:012285993694.
by brandon danny