Das erstaunliche Ende (Eine Reihe betrüblicher Ereignisse, Band 13)
by Lemony Snicket, Daniel Handler
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Read in July, 2008
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Read in January, 2008
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The movie.recommends it for: everyone.
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Read in January, 2007
Mediocre and disappointing. For the most part, The Series of Unfortunate Events provides a good set of light reading. Repetitive phrasing, stark imagery and clever descriptions of words gives them the definitive feel of children's books while the plots and dialogues are adequately entertaining for adults. Though the character development is certainly a little thin, the reader still finds themselves deeply attached to Sunny, Violet and Claus and therefore ready to read on to find out their fat...more
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Read in December, 2007
Count Olaf,Violet,Klaus,and Sunny are stranded out in the middle of the ocean.Then a horrible storm blows them into a unknown island that is full of boring customs. This story is science fiction because of the science parts and the story is make-believe. This story takes place in an unknown island.The main characters are count Olaf, Violet, Klaus,Sunny,Friday,and Ishmael(but he tells everyone to call him ish......they never call him that though). There are other peole in the story ,but are ...more
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Read in October, 2007
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All who need closure
Well. Snicket himself told me that no book can truly contain the end of a story, although it may describe the end of a person. I finished this book on October 13, 2007, exactly one year after it was released. It was not as funny or exciting as the last few books in the series, but it might be more allegorical than all the rest. It had heaps of literary allusions, only a few of which I managed to catch-- Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick, the Bible... To...more
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Read in October, 2007
A pretty disappointing final chapter. I'm all for getting a little esoteric with endings but come on! If you promise to tell me about a sugar bowl and then you just... don't tell me... that's annoying.
It doesn't help that my least favorite part of ASoUE was the whole VFD conspiracy, and that the last couple of books in the series are absolutely mired in VFD rigamarole... but that's a personal preference. All in all, it seems to me that if you're going to tell a story over the course of thir...more
It doesn't help that my least favorite part of ASoUE was the whole VFD conspiracy, and that the last couple of books in the series are absolutely mired in VFD rigamarole... but that's a personal preference. All in all, it seems to me that if you're going to tell a story over the course of thir...more
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Read in November, 2007
Man, what the hell just happened? I know I just finished this series, but it feels like there's more to say, like it ended mid-stream, and this was Book THIRTEEN! Did he not think he had enough time to finish? Was he so set on keeping it to 13 books with 13 chapters each that he stopped throwing out red herrings about what V.F.D. was and realized at the end of Twelve, "Crap, how do I solve this?" The fact that he has a "Chapter Fourteen" on this makes me think so (as well as ...more
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Read in October, 2006
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Read in January, 2006
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Rather than review all the Series of Unfortunate Events books individually, I'll just say this here: I loved this whole series, it's blackly funny and engaging and filled with so many little tricks and gags that could only possibly work in print fiction (which is why the movie was such a disaster), that they remind you why you love reading in the first place.
For the record, around the third book I was worried that things were starting to get too formulaic and that I might be getting b...more
For the record, around the third book I was worried that things were starting to get too formulaic and that I might be getting b...more
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"Loved this book and the entire series. The series did feel like it was stretched out too long but he did it to get to the unlucky number 13.
I started this book and didn't want to stop reading it. This was a great book for the ending of A Series of...more Loved this book and the entire series. The series did feel like it was stretched out too long but he did it to get to the unlucky number 13.
I started this book and didn't want to stop reading it. This was a great book for the ending o...more
I started this book and didn't want to stop reading it. This was a great book for the ending of A Series of...more Loved this book and the entire series. The series did feel like it was stretched out too long but he did it to get to the unlucky number 13.
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Read in November, 2007
Unfortunate Events: The End. By Lemony Snicket
This book started out with all the Baudelaires with Count Olaf out in the middle of the ocean on a boat that they flew off the top of hotel denomuoment. Then, a storm hit and the baudelaires and Olaf got thrown off the boat and landed on some sand bar. A little girl came up to them and told them she was a local living on the island with a group of people. Well later the people on the island let the baudelaires come with them, but did not let o...more
This book started out with all the Baudelaires with Count Olaf out in the middle of the ocean on a boat that they flew off the top of hotel denomuoment. Then, a storm hit and the baudelaires and Olaf got thrown off the boat and landed on some sand bar. A little girl came up to them and told them she was a local living on the island with a group of people. Well later the people on the island let the baudelaires come with them, but did not let o...more
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This book concludes A Series of Unfortunate Events and it's about damn time me thinks. While I enjoyed the series as a whole, more so in the beginning, I found each subsequent volume increasingly frustrating to get through and annoyingly redundant. The poor Baudelaire orphans are stranded on a coastal shelf with the loathsome Count Olaf in this book, Book the Thirteenth, taken in by nearby islanders who drink a suspicious beverage and never rock the boat. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny...more
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Read in May, 2007
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you've already read the first 12, you can quit now
Oy, how annoying!
Twelve books! TWELVE books posing question after question and mystery after mystery with twists and intrigue and all that for what? Not answers, that's for damn sure.
This book didn't tie anything together. The sugar bowl. The poison darts. The Schism. All dismissed in some silly existentialist philosophical conclusion about unanswered questions and the Great Unknown. Not cool.
It was a little bit thought-provoking, I guess, but come on! If I wanted thought-pro...more
Twelve books! TWELVE books posing question after question and mystery after mystery with twists and intrigue and all that for what? Not answers, that's for damn sure.
This book didn't tie anything together. The sugar bowl. The poison darts. The Schism. All dismissed in some silly existentialist philosophical conclusion about unanswered questions and the Great Unknown. Not cool.
It was a little bit thought-provoking, I guess, but come on! If I wanted thought-pro...more
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Read in June, 2008
Even though the ending is somewhat anti-climactic, I can't think of a better ending for this book. Snicket does some really amazing stuff in the last books--conveying postmodern ideas/morals to children (what is good and what is bad?) and showing the good that can come out of adversity.
Spoiler time! I'm glad that niether of the parents were alive after all, because that's the way life is. Snicket did convey, though, that you can find people to care for you in the most dire of situations...more
Spoiler time! I'm glad that niether of the parents were alive after all, because that's the way life is. Snicket did convey, though, that you can find people to care for you in the most dire of situations...more
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Read in November, 2006
I understand that this book made a lot of people angry, by not explaining all the central mysteries, by not wrapping up, by introducing lots more information that the book doesn't resolve. But this is where we were heading: to the point where we know that we can't know everything, to the point where the villain is no longer two-dimensionally evil and our heroes accept that they have done terrible things.
It's still Lemony Snicket, so it's still funny and clever and everything you liked about ...more
It's still Lemony Snicket, so it's still funny and clever and everything you liked about ...more
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Read in December, 2006
As far as the book, I was looking forward to answers and yes, Lemony Snicket gives you some but he also leaves some things not spelled out. I believe if you go back to the other books that some of the questions are answered in them. I think he has hidden a lot in between the lines. Also he's coming out with another book in the spring about Horseradishes. ;-) I believe this book will answer some things. I haven't read the Beatrice Letters yet so I don't know if that book helps. I enjoyed the book...more
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Read in January, 2008
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I enjoyed this series, but secretly hoped there would be a bit more of a fairytale ending. He remained consistent! Also, going along with the "reality" he created, things don't always get resolved, and some questions remained unanswered.
I like how the series got more complicated and intricate as the series progressed, but some younger readers may find it a bit harder to follow all the twists. I loved the use of vocabulary and how new words were introduced with their meanings, an...more
I like how the series got more complicated and intricate as the series progressed, but some younger readers may find it a bit harder to follow all the twists. I loved the use of vocabulary and how new words were introduced with their meanings, an...more
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Read in January, 2008
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This series has a very creative and interesting writing style. It is very intriguing and enjoyable and sometimes educational and addicting. And the fact that he keeps telling you to stop reading only makes you want to keep reading. I read the first 8 books very quickly, but I kept waiting for something good to happen for our main characters. I finally had to stop reading because the fact that nothing ever worked out for them was very depressing for me. I should have known that he would ta...more
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Read in January, 2007
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literary fiction fans/children's lit fans
I really love these books (and this review goes for all of them). They're beautifully written and original, with great characters and lots of witty word-play and references. So why only four stars? While I appreciated the ending to the series on one level, I also found it terribly unsatisfying, and I think most other readers will as well. Then again, I can't say the author didn't warn us. There are also several complementary books available (The Beatrice Letters, the Lemony Snicket autobiog...more
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Read in January, 2008
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This is the last book in the Series of Unfortunate Events. I say this is yet the weirdest one. At some parts in the book it gets confusing. I recommend you read all the books from 1-12 before you read this one.
In this book, the Baudelaires and Count olaf is washed up on an island after the storm. Ishmael, the island facilitator welcomes the Baudelaires to the colony. After another storm, more things get washed up on the shore including kit snicket. The colony decides to abandon the B...more
In this book, the Baudelaires and Count olaf is washed up on an island after the storm. Ishmael, the island facilitator welcomes the Baudelaires to the colony. After another storm, more things get washed up on the shore including kit snicket. The colony decides to abandon the B...more
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