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Aug 14, 2008
Swankivy
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Nov 14, 2010
Sonia
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Qua sì che le cose si stravolgono!
La storia inizia già con una marcia in più: Violet e Klaus sono alla prese fin da subito con un problema e non c'è tempo per pensare, per chiacchierare, per i convenevoli... devono salvare la vita!
Dopodichè è tutta in salita, questa avventura: non solo materialmente se ci riferiamo alla scalata, ma anche per quel che riguarda ciò che dovranno affrontare.
Per la prima volta vivono questi momenti separati, senza sapere (sunny da una parte e gli altri due dall'altr More...
La storia inizia già con una marcia in più: Violet e Klaus sono alla prese fin da subito con un problema e non c'è tempo per pensare, per chiacchierare, per i convenevoli... devono salvare la vita!
Dopodichè è tutta in salita, questa avventura: non solo materialmente se ci riferiamo alla scalata, ma anche per quel che riguarda ciò che dovranno affrontare.
Per la prima volta vivono questi momenti separati, senza sapere (sunny da una parte e gli altri due dall'altr More...
Oct 26, 2011
03DerekB
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I really, really, really like reading; but this book made me love reading! I actually started reading the Lemony Snicket series when I was 12 years old, but this is my favorite. The kids are going to the mountains. (Hint: I do not recomend this book to anyone that hasn't read the other books) Another plan by Count Olaf; What could it be?? Well Count Olaf steals Sonny and leaves the two kids by themselves on a camping trailor about to roll off a cliff. How do they get off? You'll have to re
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Mar 01, 2011
Kat
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As a series these books are incredible. The formulaic plot that is repeated in every book satisfies the child who is being read to's expectation of what's going on, right and wrong and the band of simple characters.
Where the books become really clever is the additional bits of plot woven into the anecdotes, dedications and acknowledgments, written for the older reader, whether parents reading aloud or older children.
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Where the books become really clever is the additional bits of plot woven into the anecdotes, dedications and acknowledgments, written for the older reader, whether parents reading aloud or older children.
The humour is clever, beautifully insightful and infinitel More...
Jul 07, 2010
Graykrickette
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These stories are interesting, and with the ever present, impending doom, they are extremely difficult to put down. The stories are very unique, bleak, yet silly,or a delightful blend of them both. In the later books, I came to embrace, and enjoy the silliness, and the over explanation of words, as Daniel's own unique sense of humor. I can not believe that he actually believed his readers to be that ignorant. I believe that it was more of a tease_ dark, spiteful, humor, which I thoroughly enjoy
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Jun 22, 2010
This book opens with Sonny Baudelaire being snatched by Count Olaf and his nasty crew and Violet and Klaus doing their best to get her back. They eventually rescue her and the race is on again in this book of the Unfortunate Events series and in the end, Lemony is not telling us where the children have slipped away to. Once again Count Olaf is the antagonist in this book, and the plot has the children never giving up on slipping away from the Count’s awful grip. In this book, Sunny seems to b
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Jun 08, 2010
Daniel
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The book "Slippery Slope" by Lemony Snicket is about the Eldest Baudelaires driving to there doom in runaway caravan and Sunny is sitting on the lap of Count Olaf's girlfriend, Esme Squalor, in a car that is driving up the Mortmain Mountain to meet up with two suspicious people that burned down the V.F.D. headquarters. Violet thinks of a way to slow the caravan down for them to get off. As the eldest Baudelaires go up the mountain in order to save there sister, they come across a gro
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Oct 13, 2009
Teresa
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This "woe-filled" collection of thirteen books about the tribulations of three unusually talented orphans will keep adults entertained as well as children. When I first saw the series I thought, "That looks too depressing," but soon I discovered the hilarity in overabundant alliteration, contemptible villains, and idiotic bystanders.
As the series progresses and the mysteries deepen, the children's characters grow and develop in surprising ways as togehter they fa More...
As the series progresses and the mysteries deepen, the children's characters grow and develop in surprising ways as togehter they fa More...
Sep 02, 2009
Marjorie
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The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10)
Lemony Snicket
I have been working my way through the Series of Unfortunate Events series for two reasons. The first is that I love to read and will read virtually any genre of book if I hear good things about it; and the second is that I am previewing books with a view to building a library for my daughter.
This series has had some peaks and valleys - with certain books in the series being stronger than oth More...
Lemony Snicket
I have been working my way through the Series of Unfortunate Events series for two reasons. The first is that I love to read and will read virtually any genre of book if I hear good things about it; and the second is that I am previewing books with a view to building a library for my daughter.
This series has had some peaks and valleys - with certain books in the series being stronger than oth More...
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Jan 01, 2012
Elliot
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The Slippery Slope continues The Carnivorous Carnival not only temporally but thematically. Violet and Klaus Baudelaire begin the novel where the previous book's cliffhanger left them -- rolling down the side of the Mortmain Mountains in a rickety caravan while Count Olaf speeds away with their younger sister Sunny. As I've written before, SHandler exhausted the possibilities for his series to continue with individualistic episodes by The Ersatz Elevator, progressing to longer, more complex, and
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Jan 06, 2009
Andika
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The Slippery Slope atau Lereng Licin, judul Bahasa Indonesianya, adalah buku kesepuluh serial Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Event. Pada Lereng Licin, seperti biasa Baudelaire Bersaudara harus menghadapi kebengisan/kebodohan Count Olaf dan pengikut-pengikutnya. Meskipun demikian, jalan cerita serial ini semakin seru saja: Sunny Baudelaire bukan lagi seorang bayi tak berdaya, ia sudah bisa mengucapkan kalimat-kalimat sederhana; Violet Baudelaire jatuh cinta kepada Quigley Quigmire, sala
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Aug 25, 2011
Drew
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Into the double digits! Things are starting to come to a head, and mysteries are unraveling as fast as new ones are developing. Coming right off the cliffhanger at the end of Book the Ninth, The Slippery Slope is the first book in the series in which the Baudelaires spend almost the entire book apart. As Violet and Klaus face the horrors of the Mortmain Mountains, including the bothersome Snow Scouts (including a couple of unfriendly familiar faces as well as friendly unfamiliar faces) and mo
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Jan 27, 2011
The Slippery Slope
By: Lemony Snicket
352 pages
ISBN13: 9780064410137
Count Olaf has Sunny captured and Violet and Klaus were going down a mountain in a caravan. Violet and Klaus managed to stop the caravan and started walking up the mountain. Count Olaf and his group of people treat Sunny cruely. Violet and Klaus, on the way up to the mountain, run into someone they had thought to be dead. Violet and Klaus and their new friend, go and try to get Sunny back from Count O More...
By: Lemony Snicket
352 pages
ISBN13: 9780064410137
Count Olaf has Sunny captured and Violet and Klaus were going down a mountain in a caravan. Violet and Klaus managed to stop the caravan and started walking up the mountain. Count Olaf and his group of people treat Sunny cruely. Violet and Klaus, on the way up to the mountain, run into someone they had thought to be dead. Violet and Klaus and their new friend, go and try to get Sunny back from Count O More...
Aug 26, 2011
Julie
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I kind of struggled with this one. Not because it is the longest one yet, but it's almost like the scope of the mystery starts to get a little *too* broad. That becomes more the case as the last books go on so I shouldn't put all the blame on this one, but this is where it begins. Without getting into spoilers, I tend to dislike it when a villain is revealed to just be part of something else (example: I have this problem with the Headless Horseman in Sleepy Hollow). All that aside, there are
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Jul 10, 2011
Audrey
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I thought that this book was GREAT! In this one Count Olof steals Sunny. While Sunny was with Count Olof, Violet and Klaus are looking for her. But they are also looking for one of there parents because one of them may have survived the fire. While Violet and Klaus are looking for one of their parents who survived the fire and Sunny, They also meet someone else, Someone who every one thinks died in a fire and is dead. That Person's name is Quiquly Quaqmire. But While Sunny is with Count Olof she
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Dec 04, 2011
Persephone
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the book starts with sunny being kidnapped by count olaf and Violet and Klaus joining the snow scouts and a boy using the initials V.F.D. The boy and Violet and Klaus go the the V.F.D headquarters the boy reveals himself to be Quigley Quagmire and tells them that V.F.D means volunteer fire department. meanwhile sunny has to do all the cooking and cleaning and count olaf has the 12 pages of the snicket file of couse Violet and Klaus have page 13 of the snicket file.Violet and Quigley climb up the
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Oct 08, 2011
Scarlett
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Well I hadn't read from this series in awhile and realized I had pretty much a free day today so I checked out the four books I hadn't read yet and settled in.
It occurred to me that it would be a wonderful middle grade curriculum to read this series and also study all of the literary, historic, and scientific things it references. I know it's the kind of thing that makes the book good for adults also, but I think it could be used to encourage learning for kids.
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It occurred to me that it would be a wonderful middle grade curriculum to read this series and also study all of the literary, historic, and scientific things it references. I know it's the kind of thing that makes the book good for adults also, but I think it could be used to encourage learning for kids.
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May 02, 2010
Galen
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This book starts out in the Mortmain Mountains, where the two Bauldelaire siblings are looking for their baby sister, Sunny Bauldelaire. Then, they find out that their old rival, Count Olaf had kidnapped her to try to get the Bauldelaire's fortune again. Olaf has been keeping her in the highest point of the mountains, which is very, very cold. So now, they have to go to the top and rescue her. Along the way, the Bauldelaires encounter somebody that can help them, but at this point, they can'
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Nov 13, 2011
Kari
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4 stars.. yea it's not 5 stars but it was a good book. :)alright so lemony snicket has a way of writing that is so unique. it is Gothic and woeful but thought provoking and inspiring at the same time. Also i have learned so many fun facts with this book ! like Leo Tolstoy who is a Russian author was mentioned in this book and oh man, guess what happened the next day ? my teacher asked the class if anyone knew him. needless to say i was stoked i knew him !!
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All the youngsters in this bo More...
Dec 15, 2010
Giannina
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For Beatrice-
When we met, you were pretty, and I was lonely.
Now, I am pretty lonely.
I spent DAYS on this book. So annoying. I can blame school, but I know that I also found it rather boring. That makes it quite ironic since this is the book where lots of things begin to be revealed. The sugar bowl, VFD could stand for Volunteer Fire Department, Hotel Denouemont and etc. Quigley was also introduced. Turns out that he was the survivor. I was quite shocked. I didn't expect the 3 More...
When we met, you were pretty, and I was lonely.
Now, I am pretty lonely.
I spent DAYS on this book. So annoying. I can blame school, but I know that I also found it rather boring. That makes it quite ironic since this is the book where lots of things begin to be revealed. The sugar bowl, VFD could stand for Volunteer Fire Department, Hotel Denouemont and etc. Quigley was also introduced. Turns out that he was the survivor. I was quite shocked. I didn't expect the 3 More...
Apr 20, 2011
Nicholas
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You can essentially take my review of the last book and apply it to this one as well. Similar themes, the same sense of moving forward while drifting away from the formula that propelled the first half of the books.
I like that it's actually expanding on the whole notion of what it takes to resist becoming what opposes you. The inherent adult foolishness of fighting fire with fire is taken to task in a manner that's quite poignant.
Events in this book have a genuine tragedy More...
I like that it's actually expanding on the whole notion of what it takes to resist becoming what opposes you. The inherent adult foolishness of fighting fire with fire is taken to task in a manner that's quite poignant.
Events in this book have a genuine tragedy More...
Oct 26, 2010
Tara
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Ten books down, only three more to go...already thinking of what series to read next with my girls, but I'm sure gonna miss the unfortunate trio of kids in these books!
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"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like..."
"It is always tedious when someone says that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about because if you are crying th More...
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"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like..."
"It is always tedious when someone says that if you don't stop crying, they will give you something to cry about because if you are crying th More...
Jul 05, 2010
Gabriel
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In this book, we found little Sunny has been kidnapped by the evil Count Olaf, which serves to the development of the character, who has a little more of prominence and overshadows the Eldest Baudelaires. Sunny tells her sister “I’m not a baby” and can really notice the change, although it is not very subtle, it is written in a simpler and beautiful style, rightly directed to children.
Again Snicket shows his characteristic narrative, with several shades of sarcasm, and pessimism, be More...
Again Snicket shows his characteristic narrative, with several shades of sarcasm, and pessimism, be More...
Sep 24, 2010
Jack
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I recently read The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket. It was adventurous and exciting. The story took place in the icy Mortmain Mountains. The story is about three orphans named Violet,Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire who try desperately to stay away from Olaf, a mean and evil man. This is the 10th book in the serious that takes you on a scary but exciting adventure. Sunny is held captive and seperated from her siblings. Violet and Klaus meet a new friend named Quigley Quagmirer who helps them rescue
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Feb 16, 2011
Carlosad96
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This book is about the series unfortunate events children and if you dont know who they are they are three kids named sunny, violet, and claud. in this story they meet their old best friends brother that was known as dead from a fire on thier house and they now found him in this one frozen wasteland which is very dangerous . This icy slope is already dangerous itself with many unknown creatures to use but to top it off count Olaf is still trying to catch them.
I liked this book a lot an More...
I liked this book a lot an More...
Feb 01, 2011
CekMoNSter
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I wondered at the beginning the reason why Mr.Snickets use 'Slippery Slope' as the title for this book.
Except for the ending and bits on the beginning it was a bit hard to read more about the slope. I was more interested to read more about V.F.D... From the Austere Academy, the author had kept me fed with the abbreviations for this. Verbal Fridge Dialogue, Vertical Flame Diversion, V.Feline Detective( I can`t remember what the V for ).It was too many..
But seriously, I bowed to the au More...
Except for the ending and bits on the beginning it was a bit hard to read more about the slope. I was more interested to read more about V.F.D... From the Austere Academy, the author had kept me fed with the abbreviations for this. Verbal Fridge Dialogue, Vertical Flame Diversion, V.Feline Detective( I can`t remember what the V for ).It was too many..
But seriously, I bowed to the au More...
May 30, 2011
Jitske
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When the three Baudelaire siblings learn that their parents have been killed in a fire, it's only the start of a seemingly neverending chain of unfortunate events...
If you are in the age of 10-14 years old, you might love these books. If you're not I suggest you give it a try, too, because - like me - you might love them anyway. These melodramatic books are full of sardonic, witty humor, satirical references, obscure words, ludicrous lessons and unusual plot twists. If you like reading More...
If you are in the age of 10-14 years old, you might love these books. If you're not I suggest you give it a try, too, because - like me - you might love them anyway. These melodramatic books are full of sardonic, witty humor, satirical references, obscure words, ludicrous lessons and unusual plot twists. If you like reading More...
Nov 10, 2010
coyote
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The story,The Slippery Slope,is about three orphans named Violet,Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire who try desperately to stay away from Olaf, a mean and evil man. Sunny is held captive and seperated from her siblings. Violet and Klaus meet a new friend named Quigley Quagmirer who helps them rescue Sunny. The siblings used their skills to free Sunny on the dangerous clifts of Mount Fraught.
I think The "Slippery Slope" got its name by the setting in Mount Fraught. The book was adven More...
I think The "Slippery Slope" got its name by the setting in Mount Fraught. The book was adven More...
May 17, 2008
Michelle
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This is my favorite yet from this series. Some absolutely delightful wordplay! Sunny is really starting to come into her own. Even a little romance. . . . :)
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Jun 01, 2009
Kassia
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I have to admit - this was the scariest sequel from the "A Series of Unfortunate Events." I thought there would be a better ending - but there really wasn't. It was a tragic, like the other books in the sequel. The kids went on the a trip, to find out their parents' friends, and they ended up being stuck on the mountains. They found a small cave to live in, temporarily. A few days later, Count Olaf found them and where they were hiding and took the smallest one, Sunny. He wouldn't give
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