The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Sixth)
by Lemony Snicket
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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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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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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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series lovers
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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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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Read in January, 2004
I LOVE, ABSOLUTELY LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS ENTIRE SERIES!! I enjoyed the way the author writes. Very witty, and you can learn a lot of vocabularies from reading his books. Meanwhile, although it is supposed to be a book written for youngsters, the suspense is just killing me! I kept wanting to find out who people are and it just keeps me guessing. Evil Count Olaf!!!
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Anybody and Everybody
This book is great! It's the first book in the serries that I read (well, actualy my mom got it on tape a couple years ago, so we listened to it, but how would I say that?). I think its the BEST book in the serries, it's especialy better than the last ones, which are horriable...... Anyway, it's GREAT, you should read it!
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Read in March, 2001
I think by this book I was getting a little tired of the SOUE. The language was still enjoyable but the whole thing was getting a mite repetitive and all the books were starting to blend together. By book thirteen I was really only still buying them because they are so pretty all together on the shelf.
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I really liked the plot in this book. One of their guardians turns out to be on Count Olaf's side, which was different from the rest of the plot. They are putting together clues throughout the series, and they live in a mysterious place(big suprise!, not) But it's still mysterious in it's own way.
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Read in January, 2004
I had really enjoyed the first 3 books in the series, then #4 and #5 were somewhat dull and predictable. Then, along came book 6.... I was once again hooked into the series! I even read it aloud to my 3rd grade class, and they loved it! I haven't read any of the remaining books yet, though.
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Read in January, 2007
This was one of my favorite books in The Series of Unfortunate Events. I loved the new characters that were introduced and I was actually hopeful that the Baudelaires had found their safe haven....but then Olaf came back into the picture and brought along his new girlfriend!
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Read in January, 2007
Very exciting! I still have the same questions, but I know they'll get answered. Snicket's humor and commentary continues to amuse me. I enjoyed his explanation that scientists don't have all the elements in the periodic table; for instance, the element of surprise.
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Read in August, 2006
We meet Esme, who is only concerned about what is "in". She adopts the kids because it's "in" to have orphans. But once that is old, she turns them out and joins their enemy. Things that are "in": parsley soda, pinstripe suits, beach-theme decor....
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Read in January, 2006
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kids aged 11-13
Hmmm...these were the first books i really foccused reading. I've read the whole series and quite enjoyed them at the time. The books can get quite confusing/boring due to the way the author writes and some story lines are not as good as others.
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Read in March, 2005
Another winner from Mr. Snicket. I even learned a new word — ersatz! How I escaped 6th grade vocabulary without that gem, I’ll never know.
P.S. I’m extremely glad that Tim Curry is back reading these books. He adds so much to it.
P.S. I’m extremely glad that Tim Curry is back reading these books. He adds so much to it.
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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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