8/24/12

The Bad Beginning

Author: Lemony Snicket
Genre: Children's General Fiction
Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages: 162

After the recommendations from several friends, I decided to finally get around to giving this book a look. I'm glad I did. The author's sense of humor is delightful, as is the story he tells. The content is clean, and the story is straightforward without being dull. The author manages to create a creepy, scary villain without carrying it too far like so many authors who seem to forget that they're writing a book for children. And I love the way he paints the relationship of the siblings.
This is a fun story that I would feel perfectly comfortable letting my little sister read - which is high praise, coming from me - and I definitely intend to continue following the lives and events of the poor, miserable Baudelaire orphans in the rest of the series. ; )

3 comments:

  1. This was one of my absolute favorite series in elementary school.It was actually the first book series I read in full.

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    1. I wish I had known about them in elementary school. I would've had a lot of fun with them. : )

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  2. I had forgotten how much I love these books (and how unfortunate the events really are) until this summer. I found a few at a thrift store and reread them.

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