The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)

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The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events #7)

by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator)

3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 · rating details · 42,752 ratings · 731 reviews

Dear Reader,

You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages. I can think of no single reason why...more

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Published April 24th 2001 by HarperCollins Publishers

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Oct 26, 2012 Drew rated it 4 of 5 stars

Here at the halfway point of the series, the author is finally dropping more hints and clues about what seems to be a rather large conspiracy against the Baudelaire orphans, the Quagmire orphans, and I gather orphans everywhere who have large fortunes to be acquired.

The search for the Quagmire triplets in The Ersatz Elevator ended with a literal red herring, but The Vile Village is almost entirely red herring, as the children are sent to become the wards of a village known only by the mysteriou...more

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May 08, 2013 Tahmina rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In this book the Baudelaires are in Mr. Poe's house and he has to figure out where to place the kids. The reputation of the kids and the trouble that seems to follow them, has made it impossible for them to find someone who will take them in. Finally Mr. Poe realizes that there is a program that uses the saying it takes a village to raise a child and tells them that they will have to do that. Once they look at the name of the villages they get excited because they see that there is one that is c...more In this book the Baudelaires are in Mr. Poe's house and he has to figure out where to place the kids. The reputation of the kids and the trouble that seems to follow them, has made it impossible for them to find someone who will take them in. Finally Mr. Poe realizes that there is a program that uses the saying it takes a village to raise a child and tells them that they will have to do that. Once they look at the name of the villages they get excited because they see that there is one that is called V.F.D. They tell Mr. Poe that is where they want to go and Mr. Poe sends them on the bus and tells them that he will continue looking for the Quagmire twins.

The Baudelaires get on the bus and they get dropped off miles away from the village because the bus does not go any closer than that. So they walk the rest of the way and they are taken to the council meeting which is about the new sheriff and the Baudelaires. The towns people are a bit nervous having the orphans there because of all the trouble that seems to follow them around but soon they decide that they will make a new rule that forbids villains from entering the town. They believe that Count Olaf won't be able to fool them. They tell the orphans that they will have to stay with Hector, the handyman, and help do the chores of the village. V.F.D stands for the Village of Fowl Devotees and the place is filled with crows.

On the way Hector talks to the children and explains that the crows roost in different parts of town and so they would be doing chores in the parts of town where the crows have just left. He also confides in them that the village makes many rules and make him in charge of getting rid of things. So, instead of throwing them out he has kept the things in his place. He has a library because all books that talk about something that breaks a rule in town was taken out and Hector was told to burn it but instead he kept it. And he has an inventing studio because there is a rule that they need to get rid of all things that are mechanical and so he kept them all in a barn. Both Klaus and Violet get excited because they realized that at least they would have something to do while in this village doing chores. Hector explains that he is working on self-sustaining ship that would take him away from the town cause the people made him skittish. He would live in this ship and not have to worry about anyone or anything. He asks them to join him after they explain the problems that they have had but they can't see how this would be a good thing or how anyone can be happy. And besides they still had to look for the Quagmire triplets who were still not found.

He tells them that they can look at all these things later but at first they should have dinner. They start to talk about the triplets and the poems that they wrote and that's when Hector shows them a couplet that they know was about the twins. They realize that they have been leaving them clues and have to find them. Once the day starts they go into town and do the chores but they hear some really good news. They hear that Count Olaf has been caught and they rush to see him in jail. When they come and see the guy they realize immediately that its not Count Olaf. He does have a unibrow and a eye tattoo on his ankle but he is not count Olaf. The guy says he's Jacques Snicket but no one but the Baudelaires believes him and when they try to tell the people they do not believe the kids. The Elders and villagers decide that they should just burn him at the stake and that would solve the problem but the children try to get them to change their minds to no success.

They go back to Hector's house and Klaus goes to the library to try and do something to help Jacques and Violet goes to the inventing studio to try and do something to help Jacques or with the self-sustaining ship if they ever got to use it. Sunny waits by the tree to try and get a new couplet if one arrives. In the morning Klaus figures something out for Jacques, Violet has fixed the ship and Sunny has found another couplet. They go back into town and go to see the burning and try to fix the burning only there is a huge crowd at the jail house cause Jacques has been murdered and when the kids go there, that's when they see the real count Olaf who has disguised himself as detective Dupin. The Kids try to explain this but as usual no one believes. And to make things worse he has told them that the children are the ones that killed Jacques and shows them evidence.

Soon the Kids are taken into Jail and when they look at Hector to tell everyone that they were with him the whole night but because of his fear of the Elders he is unable to speak and therefore the children are taken by Detective Dupin and put in a cell. He tells them they have to chose which two kids die because only one would live. The orphans are upset and don't see how they are supposed to get out of this mess. They hear Hector at the window and ask him for some help and they get disappointed when he doesn't help. He does however tell them that he will wait for them until a certain time to go with them into the ship where they could live together. He leaves and wishes them good luck in escaping.

The kids come up with a way to escape and start to do this all night and while doing this they are able to talk about exactly what the couplets mean and where the Quagmire triplets could be at. In the morning they are able to break out and figure out where the triplets are and get them out. Once all of them are out they try to make it back to Hector, only they get caught on the way. They see Detective Dupin and Officer Luciana and they are closing in on them. Right then Hector comes with his ship and drops the ladder. The triplets go first and get safely on board and the Baudelaires follow.

While going up they the officer starts using a whale harpoon on the ship trying to take out the balloons. She finally hits the ladder and it starts to unravel while the crows are changing their roosting place. Violet realize they can not go up anymore because the ladder was coming undone. The Quagmires realize that the Baudelaires are getting off the ladder and onto the tree and they start to drop the books with the secrets and research they have done on Count Olaf and Jacques but Luciana hits both books in mid air and they tear up in to pages and go everywhere. The orphans try to gather as many pages as they can but soon Count Olaf and the officer is there to arrest them. But during the shooting of the book, Luciana has accidently hit a crow and town people are upset and when they see Olaf take his glasses off they see he has a unibrow. They demand he take off his shoe to see whether he has a tattoo but he gets upset and kicks someone and his shoe comes off and they realize that its count Olaf.

Count Olaf calls to Esme (Officer Luciana) and both of them leave. The villagers take the crow to the vet and tell the kids not to go anywhere so they can burn them at the stake tomorrow. The children decide to leave despite the fact that they were told not to and also had not really cleared their names but because the villagers weren't ready to hear the whole truth they decided not to stick around and run away.(less)

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May 01, 2013 Henry rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love Lemony Snicket (or, rather, Daniel Handler). I think he is such a talented and original writer. When I was at primary school, I remember devouring the A Series of Unfortunate Events, anxiously awaiting the next installment.

Now, a few years later, (ten years since this book was published? Really?) I am still a huge fan of the series. However, it was only when I thought about it - and I mean, really thought about it - I realised that, fantastic though the books were, there were huge chunks

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Jan 17, 2013 Kacey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

With anxious anticipation, we once again join the Baudelaires on their latest adventure. This time an entire village takes it upon themselves to raise the children, an action which here means forcing the children to obey ridiculous rules and do the village's chores. The only bright spot in this V.F.D. (an acronym here meaning "very foul development") is the handyman Hector, who shows kindness to the children.

Anyone following the adventures of the Baudelaires knows that unfortunate events are sur...more

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Aug 03, 2012 Christina Taylor rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens

The Vile Village is the seventh book in Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Like its predecessors, this is a metafictive modern fantasy in which the narrator--and supposed author--is not only conscious of his audience as evidenced by his speaking directly to the reader, but also plays with his language as telegraphed by the book’s alliterative title. Snicket peppers this recount of the Baudelaires’ misadventures with allusions, adages, word play, and interstitials a la William Goldm...more

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Oct 27, 2011 Roberta rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008

Ci vuole un villaggio per allevare un bambino.

Dopo la sfortunata esperienza con i coniugi Squalor al 667 di Viale Oscuro, gli orfani Baudelaire vengono iscritti dal signor Poe al progetto "Ci vuole un villaggio per allevare un bambino". I ragazzi scelgono il villaggio V.F., credendo che abbia a che fare con il segreto scoperto dai trigemini Pantano.

Sfortunatamente dovranno combattere non solo contro il trasformismo del Conte Olaf, ma anche contro gli errori della stampa e l'ottusità del Circolo...more

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Apr 19, 2011 Matthew rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The seventh book in this upsetting series. It is yet another tale of how the Baudelaire children are a well placed razor away from death. The scoundrel Count Olaf is up to his old tricks. How he is able to baffle entire crowds of people with his guile, which in this case refers to his uncanny ability to fool adults. Luckily Violet, Klaus and Sunny are sharp children and are using their individual talents to stay alive.

Thanks to the heroic and mysterious efforts of Lemony Snicket it seems that th...more

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Mar 01, 2011 Kat Clapham rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: kids

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.

The humour is clever, beautifully insightful and infinitely quotable. Type Lem...more

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Feb 25, 2011 Nicholas Karpuk rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

If I had to draw a line in the sand with the Snicket books between overly formulaic but funny, and genuinely well put together, I'd put it within the first few chapters of The Vile Village.

There's a few things absent from this read through, most of them positive. He isn't constantly reiterating the three children's skills in a "this is for Violet, this is for Klaus, this is for Sunny" sort of rhythm. There guardian is slightly more relatable, and altogether decent guy who gets severely skittish...more If I had to draw a line in the sand with the Snicket books between overly formulaic but funny, and genuinely well put together, I'd put it within the first few chapters of The Vile Village.

There's a few things absent from this read through, most of them positive. He isn't constantly reiterating the three children's skills in a "this is for Violet, this is for Klaus, this is for Sunny" sort of rhythm. There guardian is slightly more relatable, and altogether decent guy who gets severely skittish around authority. And they actually get some answers to the larger mysteries along with a growing integration of Lemony Snicket as a character rather than a pure narrator.

Plus it just flat out reads better. The structure is looser, giving more room for whimsical turns of events.

If there's an over-arching theme to the Unfortunate Events, it's the perils of adulthood. Every book discusses the dismissiveness of adults towards children, but each covers more specific territory. In this case, it's legalism, as the town they're adopted by is run by old people obsessed with maintaining a seemingly self-contradicting body of laws.

Snicket works in defiance of the Nickelodeon model of pro-kid entertainment, where kids are constantly triumphing over adults. Most savvy kids get irritated with this after a while, as they spend most of their childhood getting regularly thwarted by adults. Power fantasies only hold the attention of some people for a short time.

Instead he treats childhood as a kind of tragedy, where foolhardy adults with their various issues often railroad kids into terrible lives. What's secretly positive about this very bleak series is that the only way the children outwit adults is through positive traits like self-reliance, critical analysis, and research. Klaus actually reads the entire rulebook for the town, something none of the elders actually appear to have done.

The Vile Village in particular shows that to outwit the elderly tyrants in your life, you have to be smarter, more clever, and braver. What's impressive is that it makes it sound perfectly achievable.(less)

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Jul 07, 2010 Graykrickette rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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...more

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Jan 20, 2010 Casey rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Jan 17, 2010 Alex Matsu rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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This book is about the three Beaudilaire siblings. Their parents were killed and ever since then they have been chased to multiple guardians by Count Olaf, who always ends up killing the parent. In this book the guardian is a village full of old people, except for the town janitor, who's house they live at. They are reunited with their friends the Quagmire triplets, but the triplets are then stolen away again by Count Olaf.
I made a text to world connection. Like Count Olaf, there are so many e...more

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Oct 13, 2009 Teresa B rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: kids-4-9-yrs, kids-9-12-yrs

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 face obstacles and a growing numbe...more

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Mar 02, 2012 Penny rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobooks, children-s

I liked it very much!

The images that kept crawling into my mind with all those ravens flying together at sunset and dawn were soooo beautiful! And the riddle with the poems was very challenging! When they got the last note I was like
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"I KNOW WHERE THE QUAGMIRE TRIPLETS ARE"
And the opportunity for the Baudelaires to practice their talents in that huge library and inventing studio was superb! And the trick in the cell was so inspired! And the plan to save Zack!

But

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Jun 13, 2011 Ana Mardoll rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A Series of Unfortunate Events 7: The Vile Village / 9780061757198

I first came to this series after watching the tie-in movie "Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events". I love the series for its superb characterization, lovely writing, quirky plotlines, and deeply dark humor. This seventh book in the series carries on the tradition and will not disappoint fans.

Like the rest of the novels in this series, this book is very slender and can be whipped through in a few hours. However, the st...more

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May 16, 2011 Angie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Dec 25, 2011 Elliot rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: childrens-literature

One of the greatest joys in reading through A Series of Unfortunate Events is the gradual discovery of Lemony Snicket's character, and the extent of his involvement in the endless perils that follow the Baudelaire siblings. Daniel Handler apparently inserted himself as a character in his debut novel The Basic Eight (which is more-or-less on my To Read list), but I imagine that the effect is quite different than that of Snicket in ASOUE. Handler establishes Snicket's unique position in the story...more One of the greatest joys in reading through A Series of Unfortunate Events is the gradual discovery of Lemony Snicket's character, and the extent of his involvement in the endless perils that follow the Baudelaire siblings. Daniel Handler apparently inserted himself as a character in his debut novel The Basic Eight (which is more-or-less on my To Read list), but I imagine that the effect is quite different than that of Snicket in ASOUE. Handler establishes Snicket's unique position in the story with his frequent talk of obligation -- the Baudelaires' is a story Snicket must tell -- and yet it is not until The Vile Village (and more explicitly in The Hostile Hospital) that the narrator's self-reference is anything more than a device to engage his readers. Snicket's letters to the his editor that describe his research at the locations of the Baudelaire's misfortune seem witty and engaging but unimportant until Jacques Snicket enters into their tale, and until the Baudelaires discover the very close connection between their family and the Snickets'. I am always afraid to give things away; know that, by the time one finishes the books, one realizes that Snicket may have been the most multi-dimensional character in the entire series.

The Vile Village shows that one of the various horrors of adulthood (in addition to apathy, irrational fear, consumerism, greed, etc.) is an over-reliance on laws. The Village of Fowl Devotees has thousands of bizarre rules that no individual could ever know, many of which contradict each other. Humorously, a rule forbidden books which talk about breaking the rules results in the rulebooks being banished from the town's library.

As in the rest of the series, the adults in The Vile Village are easily deceived, stubborn in their ignorance, and prone to the sways of mob psychology. Their wrongheadedness leads to what appears to be the murder of an innocent man by Count Olaf, Esme, and their cronies, as well as the false accusations levelled against the Baudelaires that set the series' remaining books into motion.

And, as always, the Baudelaires are able to escape due to their courage, ingenuity, and willing to solve clues by working together. The effect is a mixed bag (a phrase which Snicket hilariously defines in the previous novel): the couplet mystery is engaging, but it's wholly inconceivable that the Baudelaires could really break the break walls of a jail cell using bread, a pitcher of water, and a wooden table, especially after staying up for about 48 hours. (They don't sleep after they break out and escaped their execution, either, and walk all night to the Heimlich Hospital in the next book, where they work all day. This is possibly 4 full days. HOW. It probably does more harm than good to pay this close of attention...) The deus ex machina (this is the book that first taught me the term so many years ago!) also seem a bit tacky, although the self-reference it affords makes it worth the cost of corniness.

I cannot recommend this series strongly enough, which stands far above the individual strengths and weaknesses of its individual books.(less)

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Sep 23, 2010 Allendra rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book that I read is called The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket. This book is the 7th book in the Series of Unfortunate Events. Out of this series so far I think that this book was the best. This series is about the ups and downs of Violet,Klaus,and Sunny Baudelaire who lost their parents in a terrible fire.

In the previous book the Baudelaire orphans were sent to a prefatory school where they met the Quagmire twins. Before the twins were kidnapped they told the Baudelaire orphans that they had...more

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May 05, 2013 Tessa rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have so far read and enjoyed books 1-6 and have rated all of them 3*. I have to say that book the seventh, The Vile Village is my favorite so far. I had the feeling that this book was even darker and more unsettling than the previous 6. A dead tree infested with crows every night (and I like the name "Nevermore" tree since we already have a Mr Poe in the series ^^), a mob that seems to like burning innocent people and children at a stake as a pass-time, as long as these activities don't interf...more

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Dec 10, 2011 Sara rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

this book is awesome,the part i favored most was when violet met Count Olaf at the market!

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Mar 27, 2011 Sara Komoda rated it 5 of 5 stars

Lemony Snicket has done it once again! This book, like any other book he has written, is beautifully written, with lots of great detail, and is explained thoroughly, just like he said he was going to do. I love all of his books, simply because he wrote this book to be very sad and to emphasize the unfortunate events that happened in the Baudelaire's lives, but he adds humor to it. Also because he wrote this book so wonderfully, that i can't stop reading. it hooks me like a fish!
Lemony Snicket u...more Lemony Snicket has done it once again! This book, like any other book he has written, is beautifully written, with lots of great detail, and is explained thoroughly, just like he said he was going to do. I love all of his books, simply because he wrote this book to be very sad and to emphasize the unfortunate events that happened in the Baudelaire's lives, but he adds humor to it. Also because he wrote this book so wonderfully, that i can't stop reading. it hooks me like a fish!
Lemony Snicket uses literary elements like all great authors should, which includes: style, he uses many metaphors, such as "their footsteps as loud as a roll of thunder..." and "it felt more like the rolling of an enormous root vegetable." and similes such as " and Mr. Leskos eyes were shining as bright as the torches." and " They looked like a floating crop of crisp, ripe, apples glistening in the last light of the afternoon." He also uses the protagonist, which is Violet, Klaus, and Sunny, and maybe some of their guardians, such as Aunt Josephine, Uncle Monty, and in this book, Hector, the handyman, although he is a little skittish. Mr. Poe is one also, but he has many coffing fits, and doesn't offer much help. Mood, which he changes so often that it is sometimes hard to decide on one. Well, he wants you to feel sad, because the Baudelaire parents had died, the Quagmire triplets had been taken away, and for Violet Klaus and Sunny, because they were so miserable. He also wanted you to feel like you were in the book, like he wanted you to try to solve the puzzles like the Baudelaires had to do. Snicket also used Exposition, because you knew where the orphans were, and what they were doing. Like the other books in this series he had written, he writes in 3rd person. He is the narrarator of the story. Characterization: Klaus is a very polite person, just like his sister, he is very smart, clever, and probably one of the most smartest people in the world, partly because of all of the books he has read. He has read at least maybe 2 or 3 books for just about everything, from grammar, to how to operate an airplane. Also just like his sister, he can help his siblings get out of tough situations, with his knowledge. Plot: The events that happen in this book are very mysterious, and make you want to keep reading to find out what happens. The beginnig of this story takes place in Mr. Poes office in Mulctuary Management.(This is a bank in the same city where their mansion was.) Together, they find a new home in the city of V.F.D. So they go, and meet their new guardian, Hector, the handyman. After a couple of days, Hector finds a couplet under a tree. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny find out that it was written by Isadora Quagmire. They try to figure out what it meant, but they had to go do chores for the city. The next day, they find another couplet, and tried to figure out what it meant. The next day, they find another one, written by the same person. While they were doing their chores for the day, they recieved some suprising news. Count Olaf had been captured! So they went to the meeting, to see what the people who were runnug the town were going to do with him. There, did they not only know what they were going to do with him, which was to burn him on the stake, but that the man was not count olaf. So the Baudelaires tried to tell the city elders that he was not count olaf. Of course, they did not listen, so they sent him to jail. The next day, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny found yet another couplet. They could not figure out what it meant. But they knew that they did not have much time to figure it out, because the city was going to burn the guy at the stake. So the ran to the Jail, and tried to keep the people from burning him. but, it was too latye, because they got the message that he had been killed in the jail cell, the night before. This message was delivered by Count Olaf, disguised in a detective costume. A really hideous one too. but the Baudelaires could see through his disguise, and tried to tell the people that he was Count Olaf, not the man who had been killed. Before they knew it, they were in a jail cell, because the 'evidence' that ' detective Dupin' had found. A ribbon, a eyeglass lense, and tooth marks on the body. because of that, they were sent to jail. but, they figure out what the copuplets meant, and busted out of jail with Violets inventing skills, Klauses thinking, and Sunnys help. They save the Triplets, and try to escape, but the only people who got away, were the triplets, and Hector. The Townspeople decided to burn a police officer and Detective Dupin at the stake, because they broke many rules. So Violet, Klaus and Sunny were able to get away with some information that the triplets gave them, but most of it was lost. (less)

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Nov 16, 2010 Ina Inalu rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Sophia Lu
The Vile Village
Lemony Snicket

Do you like a good ending? If you do then you shouldn’t read this book called Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village, the book eight. If you already read one the unfortunate event story and you like bad ending. You might as well read the seventh book, which is Unfortunate Event: The Vile Village. This is a great story, it has some mystery that the Baudelaire children’s need to solve.

The Vile Village is set at town called V.F.D. This place is filled with c...more Sophia Lu
The Vile Village
Lemony Snicket

Do you like a good ending? If you do then you shouldn’t read this book called Unfortunate Events: The Vile Village, the book eight. If you already read one the unfortunate event story and you like bad ending. You might as well read the seventh book, which is Unfortunate Event: The Vile Village. This is a great story, it has some mystery that the Baudelaire children’s need to solve.

The Vile Village is set at town called V.F.D. This place is filled with crows. It mostly set in the house where the henchman lives. Plus where the Baudelaire are staying with their guardians. The people in V.F.D are the Baudelaire guardians. The Baudelaire chooses this town is because the name has to do something with the clues that their friend, Duncan and Isadora gave them. Isadora and Duncan are twin but got captured by Count Olaf, who is the bad guy of the whole series. Baudelaire are trying to find out where is Count Olaf hiding them in V.F.D.

The Character in this story is Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. Those are the Baudelaire children, and they are the main character. Another Character is Count Olaf who is disguise is Detective Dupin in this story. Violet is the eldest and she loves to invent. When she is thinking, she always put her hair up when she is thinking. Klaus is the second oldest. He loves s to read. He remembers the book he read and wears glasses. Sunny who is the youngest and is just a baby. Sunny love to chew on wood and she have four sharp teeth in the front that she bites on. Nobody understands her when she talks except her siblings. Count Olaf is the bad guy in the story. He want capture the Baudelaire children for sake of money that their parent have left behind for them. In this book, he is disguise as Detective Dupin.

In this story, they have many laws and rules. A lot of them are a bit ridiculous, for example: do not put more than fifteen peanut in a cake, no electronic device, no secretly have book, and lot more. If anyone broke the rule they would have to be burn to stake. Also everyday, Duncan and Isadora would send a strip piece to the Nevermore tree which is next to the henchman house. They send it to them everyday from the crow. The strips of piece of paper were the clues to find the Duncan and Isadora.

Basically, the children are trying to find their friend from the help the piece of paper. That they got from Isadora and Duncan. If Detective Dupin is still trying to get the Baudelaire’s fortune, it will be hard from them. Since he has his companion to help him.
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Dec 21, 2012 Vivian Xia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I loved this book! I think that this book is good because of the weird encounters with V.F.D.I mean Village of Fowl Devotees? Seriously? But I think that the best part of the book is the fact that Violet, Sunny, and Klaus were in jail, but also that this book is so clever. For instance, the couplets were actually sending a message like in the Wide Window, but Isadora got them to rhyme!

I didn't really like this disguise. I think that Olaf wasn't as... funny as a detective and convicting the thre...more

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Dec 06, 2010 Nina rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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For Beatrice-
When we were together I felt breathless.
Now, you are.

I rate this book with 4 stars. I did find the Ersatz Elevator much more interesting, but the Vile Village was also good in its own way.

VFD, which stood for Village of Fowl Devotees, which I've forgotten, is a town filled with lots of people who have this intense adoration for crows and have this long and absurd set of rules that must be followed, even though most of them are ridiculous and some, even contradict each other.

Hector s...more For Beatrice-
When we were together I felt breathless.
Now, you are.

I rate this book with 4 stars. I did find the Ersatz Elevator much more interesting, but the Vile Village was also good in its own way.

VFD, which stood for Village of Fowl Devotees, which I've forgotten, is a town filled with lots of people who have this intense adoration for crows and have this long and absurd set of rules that must be followed, even though most of them are ridiculous and some, even contradict each other.

Hector seemed like a good guardian. The only thing was that, he was too scared. He never spoke up for the Baudelarie children. I thought Jerome was a coward, but Hector proved me wrong, seeing as he is even more a coward than Jerome was.

Count Olaf actually seemed cool in this book, seeing as he disguised himself as Detective Dupin, a cool detective. EDIT: Okay. I just listened to the audio book of this part. Count Olaf DID NOT sound cool. Lol. I blame Tim Curry.

I liked reading about Isadora's couplets. I wanted to shout out where the Quagmires were hidden, the whole time the Baudelaires were trying to analyze the poems. Jacques, a man who was thought to be Olaf because of his singly eyebrow and eye tattoo, stated that he knew the Baudelaires and had the tattoo of an eye because of his job at the Volunteer.. Dot dot dot. He never finished. But that didn't matter, because even with just that word, everything about the Baudelaire series came rushing back. I now remember what VFD stands for, unfortunately. Proves that this book is best enjoyed the first time, when you have no idea what's going to happen next.

This book was the beginning of a new saga for the Baudelaire children. Followers of the series can see that at the end of the book, Mr. Poe is no where to be found to relocate the children to a different home. Instead, it is shown that the children are devastated that they didn't get to escape with the Quagmires and Hector. They are, instead, picking up the remains of their friend's notebooks.

The children have really grown up since the start of the series. At the end of the book, it is shown that Sunny can no walk. And Klaus just celebrated his 13th birthday, and I remember the day when I was first reading this, I was either 12 or just 13 and was really amazed. Well, I know everyone grows older, but it's like.. He grew up before me. Or with me. Whatever. I remember I also shed a tear while reading that it was his birthday and he had to spend it in a jail cell, even though he and his siblings were completely innocent.

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May 09, 2013 Robert rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, 5-9, orphans, good-and-evil, a-series-of-unfortunate-events, kindle, public-library

One of the better of the series I have read thus far. The Baudelaires are shuffled off to V.F.D. Calling up the trite phrase, "it takes a village to raise a child", the children are to be raised by the community as they serve as slaves.

The odd town has a murder of crows who roost uptown at one part of the day and downtown at the other.

We learn of Lemony Snicket's interest in their tale as a relative is put to death. The town folk think he was Count Olaf. The town is replete with conflicting rule...more

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Feb 11, 2012 adventurat rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, e-book, fiction, youth, library-book

I liked this book a lot better than the one I read last - The Austere Academy - which I realized in retrospect made me rather anxious for all five children, not just the three Baudelaires. This book is just as replete with stupid, foolish, incompetent, oblivious, and crazy adults as all the previous ones, but at least the Baudelaires had a couple of pleasant interludes, staying with Hector and eating good meals and being in their element in his hidden library and inventing studio. Hector was kin...more

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Dec 28, 2012 Octavia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: books-for-teens

The three Baudelaire children are once again off to a new place. This time they had some sort of choice in what village they chose to live in. They chose a particular place because they thought it might help them find their triplet friends who were kidnapped by Count Omar. The writing continues to explain the meaning of higher level words. The author mixes in a bit of his own sad life into the story. All I can think about is how fortunate those of us who have two parents or even one are. It is a...more

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Dec 08, 2011 05CambreeD rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: 10 to 13 or 14 year olds

This is one of those books, where you think you know what will happen in the middle and the end, but doesn’t turn out the way you expected it to. I wouldn’t not recommend this book to any one, unless they have read the beginning, you really would not know what is going on.
I love they Lemony Snicket starts his books, he is always telling you not to read this book, to put it down and go and read a book on happy little elves. It’s like when you tell a child to not do something, but they go and d...more

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Nov 01, 2009 William rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Feb 07, 2013 Al rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Dear Reader,You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages.I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book containing such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, a newspaper headline, t

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Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler. Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events (his best-known work) and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional character and a real person. This article deals primarily with the character.

As a...more Lemony Snicket is the pen name of American novelist Daniel Handler. Snicket is the author of several children's books, serving as the narrator of A Series of Unfortunate Events (his best-known work) and appearing as a character within the series. Because of this, the name Lemony Snicket may refer to both a fictional character and a real person. This article deals primarily with the character.

As a character, Snicket is a harried, troubled writer and researcher falsely accused of felonies and continuously hunted by the police and his enemies, the fire-starting side of the secret organization Volunteer Fire Department (V.F.D.). As a child he was kidnapped and inducted as a "neophyte" into V.F.D., where he was trained in rhetoric and sent on seemingly pointless missions while all connections to his former life, apart from his siblings Jacques and Kit (who were also kidnapped and inducted), were severed. In the organization he met and fell in love with a peer named Beatrice, to whom he eventually became engaged. After a series of unfortunate events (after which the real-world series is in some ways named), he became falsely accused of murder and arson. Eventually the fallacies grew so much that The Daily Punctilio reported his death. Beatrice eventually moved on and married Bertrand Baudelaire, becoming the mother of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, the protagonists of A Series of Unfortunate Events. Fourteen years thereafter Beatrice and Bertrand were murdered in a house fire, leaving the Baudelaires orphans. Feeling indebted to his former fiancée, Snicket embarks on a quest to chronicle the lives of the Baudelaire children until they become old enough to face the troubles of the world on their own.

Snicket is the subject of a fictional autobiography, Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (which contains an introduction from a fictionalized version of Daniel Handler). A pamphlet, 13 Shocking Secrets You'll Wish You Never Knew About Lemony Snicket, was released in promotion of The End. Other works by Snicket include The Baby in the Manger, The Composer Is Dead, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid, The Latke Who Couldn't Stop Screaming, The Lump of Coal, and "13 Words". Snicket is currently writing a new children's series that is due out sometime in 2012.(less)

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