The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6)
by Lemony Snicket
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Read in February, 2001
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Read in June, 2008
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Read in January, 2005
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out of all of the lemony snickette series
in which i have read.
i found this book the most interesting and with the best plot and storyline
i has suspense , drama , adventure , mystery and love and family with the siblings relationships.
this book i found to be the most gripping and interesting evne though all of the people i have consulted insist that the 5th book the academy one with the other set of triplets/twins? that they met - but i found that book dull and the story line they get the...more
in which i have read.
i found this book the most interesting and with the best plot and storyline
i has suspense , drama , adventure , mystery and love and family with the siblings relationships.
this book i found to be the most gripping and interesting evne though all of the people i have consulted insist that the 5th book the academy one with the other set of triplets/twins? that they met - but i found that book dull and the story line they get the...more
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So the three children would move into another relatives house after they get kicked out of the academy. Count Olaf would kidnap the two friends of Violet,Klaus and Sunny since the 2 friends helped them escape. The relative they're living with is rich, her house is really dark. They would need to walk up the stairs every now and then. One day they went down taking the elevator and it did not work, so they were stuck. So they had to use strings in order to get down, so they made a rope. They would...more
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humor fans, penny dreadful fans, irony fans, Lemony Snicket fans
Yes, the Series of Unfortunate Events books can get real formulaic, which I think is the whole point, but I still love them. I've noticed that the Baudelaires can always recognize Count Olaf when he's in disguise, but they can never recognize his assistants, whose disguises are always equally mediocre. Oh well.
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny find and then lose the Quagmire triplets (there is quite a bit of weeping in anguish at the end of this book). I also like Snicket's word tricks and his allus...more
Violet, Klaus, and Sunny find and then lose the Quagmire triplets (there is quite a bit of weeping in anguish at the end of this book). I also like Snicket's word tricks and his allus...more
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Read in October, 2007
This series just keeps getting more interesting. All the adults in these books are just infuriating! Again, I love Snicket's style. His dark humor, the allusions to tragic, unfortunate lives and events past, the quirky vocabulary explanations. The warnings of further dire circumstances and lack of happy endings. For the reader to turn back and quit reading. I mean, who else really does this? Just plain good writing. His exaggerration of the annoying or irrational qualities in his characters capt...more
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My generic review for A Series of Unfortunate Events.
I really love this series. I love the wit and humor. I love the way the author 'explains' and 'defines' things to the reader. I was constantly laughing out loud while reading these.
The series does get progressively darker or more confusing as to who is good and who is bad. But it never reaches Harry Potter level. I would feel comfortable with my tweens reading these.
Very good twists and turns and outright ridiculous in parts...more
I really love this series. I love the wit and humor. I love the way the author 'explains' and 'defines' things to the reader. I was constantly laughing out loud while reading these.
The series does get progressively darker or more confusing as to who is good and who is bad. But it never reaches Harry Potter level. I would feel comfortable with my tweens reading these.
Very good twists and turns and outright ridiculous in parts...more
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ages 10-76! all ages!
My favorite of the series, I love the puzzles throughout all of the books. Lemony Snicket brings such fun to dismal ideas, it seems impossible until you read them. Witty in a dreary way, and although they are very... unhappy, they are perfect for kids and adults alike and have wonderful characters. So much better than the movie, you have to read them yourselves to see how great this series really is. Perfect for fans of Chasing Vermeer and other books containing puzzles. You have to read them in...more
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I AM ONLY TAGGING THIS ONE (ahem...cause when starbucks used to live inside the runnymede chapters, i DEFS read most of them with a hot chocolate so i never had to pay) BECAUSE OF ESME SQUALOR!!! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEST lemony snicket character EVER!!! Not only does she attempt to help with the let's-knock-off-the-baudelaire effort---for which we can all be thankful, those children are SO annoooying--BUT she also has my name, and its a play on Salinger's "to esme with love and squalor". Oh l...more
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Read in November, 2007
This book wasn't really captivating or resolving in any way, but it was at least nice that the Baudelaire's saw the two Quagmire triplets for a few moments. The only thing I really liked about Book the Sixth is the satirical punch to fads and materialism through Esme's obsession with the IN-significant details.
Also, I don't know how much longer I can handle their misfortune and the stupid adults who always have issues in trusting the children. It's really getting on my nerves!
Also, I don't know how much longer I can handle their misfortune and the stupid adults who always have issues in trusting the children. It's really getting on my nerves!
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Read in January, 2007
Just when things get a bit “normal” for the orphans (well, close to normal) when they were taken in by the wealthy Esme Squalor and her husband Jerome in their 71 bedroom penthouse at 667 Dark Avenue, the city where they were born. Here, the community takes the “in” things way too much and exaggerated to the extreme. They were close to find their new kidnapped friends, and they have an experienced of “sleeping with the enemy” as well.
It’s getting better folks!
It’s getting better folks!
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I started reading the Lemony Snickets books while waiting for Harry Potter Book 7 to come out thinking it would be similar style, etc. I think they're made a little bit more for a younger audience. They're okay, and entertaining but not as advanced or in depth as the HP series. I like them but don't love them like I do Harry Potter. They are easy to read but often on the sad side. Nothing really ever goes their way. But worth an easy read or maybe for the youngsters...
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this book the Baudelaire orphans go to 667 dark avenue were they live in a huge penthouse apartment with their new guardians Esme Squalor and her husband. but the twist is that Esme was a student for Olaf and becomes his girlfriend were they team up to defeat the Baudelaire's! oh yea i almost forgot the orphans end up finding the Quagmires in the bottom of an elevator shaft. then they end up losing their thier friends Isadora and Duncan.
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Read in February, 2007
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In this book they live with a couple in an apartment building. The girl is a true fashionista and only cares what's in and out. They live at the very top floor, and the elevator is broken. It takes them almost all day to climb to the top. When they find out the=at the girl is Olaf's girlfriend she pushes them down the "broken" elevator shaft, into a giant net. Cold, scared, and left alone in the dark they don't know what to do...
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I liked the fact that there was a secret place in the very bottom of the building. It was sick how the Quagmires were kept as prisoners inside a statue. I knew that the guardian was suspicious but I didn't know that she was in cahoots with count Olaf. Jeremy (the other guardian) was really nice. I wonder what will happen to the Quagmires. Are the Baudelaires ever going to stop going guardian to guardian, it's too repetative.
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Read in July, 2008
I have enjoyed the Series of Unfortunate Events. This book was one of the better ones I've read so far. I learned several new vocabulary words. I have found it a little frustrating that the Orphans haven't learned from their mistakes... ie: taking the chance to question the triplets and learn some things. I definitely recommend reading this series if you like reading Young Adult books.
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Esme Squalor was probably one of the funniest and most entertaining of the people found in this series. She does give a new definition to the term “slave to fashion.” Another important thing in this book is here we first hear about Beatrice. I was surprised in that for the first time since the first book the guardian actually turns out to be a villain instead of just an idiot.
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i dont really like these books that much. they're not very good. i only read them because i wanted to find out what happened to the baudelaire children... i guess #13 is the best, but it frustrated me because it left so many questions unanswered and it's the LAST book in the series!! yeah, i read the beatrice letters, but it didnt really answer anything or make sense...
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Okay, this installment I actually enjoyed full-through. They did repeat one of the things I'd disliked in the previous book, but at least there was a better in-story reason for it this time. And there was one random thing which contradicted a statement in a previous book (and there was no strong reason to make the new statement), but otherwise it was pretty solid.
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"One of the greatest myths in the world - & the phrase 'greatest myths' is just a fancy way of saying 'big fat lies' -- is that troublesome things get less & less troublesome if you do them more & more. People say this myth when they are teaching children to ride bicycles, for instance, as though falling off a bicycle & skinning your knee is less troublsome the fourteenth time you do it than it is the first time. The truth is that troublesome things tend to remain troublesome no matter how many times you do them, & that you should avoid doing them unless they are absolutely urgent."
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