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Apr 10, 2010
Bri
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This book was really cool to read. In this one(there are 13 in the whole series), you discover the horrible fungus called medusoid mycelium, and it kills you within the hour.
When Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire go to find a certain bowl, they get trapped in an underwater cave filled with the deadly fungus.
Back on their submarine, they find no trace of Captain Widdershins, and the siblings discover that Sunny's helment has been infested by Medusiod Mycelium. Count Olaf( More...
When Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire go to find a certain bowl, they get trapped in an underwater cave filled with the deadly fungus.
Back on their submarine, they find no trace of Captain Widdershins, and the siblings discover that Sunny's helment has been infested by Medusiod Mycelium. Count Olaf( More...
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Jun 01, 2008
Phillip
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The 3 orphans would go undersea with a captain. The captain is part of the VFD organization that help people out. They go undersea and Count Olaf follows them. They are going undersea because they are in search of the Sugar Bowl. Then Sunny caught a disease on their way there. In order to cure this disease Sunny would have to eat wasabi. The submarine would then sink and they float all the way to this hotel. Count Olaf was also in the submarine and he floats his way up as well since they did no
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Feb 05, 2009
Jamieson
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In the eleventh book in “A Series of Unfortunate Events”, we find the three young Baudelaire siblings in a grim bit of trouble, escaping from the nefarious Count Olaf by riding a toboggan down the Stricken Stream, hoping to find a sugar bowl before he does.
The Baudelaire siblings don’t know what is so important about the sugar bowl, only that it may mean the end of their troubles.Unsure how to get out of the Stricken Stream without drowning, the three siblings contemplate their fate. More...
The Baudelaire siblings don’t know what is so important about the sugar bowl, only that it may mean the end of their troubles.Unsure how to get out of the Stricken Stream without drowning, the three siblings contemplate their fate. More...
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Jan 12, 2012
Cohen
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Grim Grotto
Have you ever wanted to go in a submarine? Would you want to with your siblings? in Lemony Snicket’s Grim Grotto the Baudelaire orphans Violet, Klaus and sonny don’t have a choice. They are forced to run and hide from the police and a horrible man named Count Olaf. Earlier in this captivating book series Count Olaf framed the orphans for murder and search for a group called V.F.D. Count Olaf and his evil crew’s goal is to take the orphans inheritance. More...
Grim Grotto
Have you ever wanted to go in a submarine? Would you want to with your siblings? in Lemony Snicket’s Grim Grotto the Baudelaire orphans Violet, Klaus and sonny don’t have a choice. They are forced to run and hide from the police and a horrible man named Count Olaf. Earlier in this captivating book series Count Olaf framed the orphans for murder and search for a group called V.F.D. Count Olaf and his evil crew’s goal is to take the orphans inheritance. More...
Jan 08, 2012
Saneel
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Like every book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, they all have sadness that relates to the three orphans. Book number 11, The Grim Grotto, was sad and like every other series of books an evil man named Count Olaf tried to capture them and take their dead parents fortune. The Grim Grotto takes place underwater in a submarine called the Quegueg. In the beginning of the book it takes place in a toboggan near the mountains right next to Stricken Streams. The book has very interesting mysterie
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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...
Feb 02, 2011
Iris
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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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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 08, 2009
Da
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Chance led them to an acquaintance and Klaus' first love!- Of course Phil as well, or "Cookie" as captain named him. Their strengths and knowledge guide them as well as being a source of aid to Widdershins and his crew. A new voyage is set in motion! Undersea, undercover, understanding, underestimated, undefeateable...?
Sunny with Phil in cooking, Violet and Captain Widdershins at the ship, and Fiona in the company of Klaus working on maps or looking through books. Fiona who More...
Sunny with Phil in cooking, Violet and Captain Widdershins at the ship, and Fiona in the company of Klaus working on maps or looking through books. Fiona who More...
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Jul 01, 2009
Drebbles
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Book the Eleventh in Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, begins with Violet, Klaus and Sunny rushing down the Stricken Stream in a toboggan. Soon they are picked up by the submarine Queequeg, piloted by Captain Widdershins, with his stepdaughter Fiona, and Phil, an old friend from an earlier book, on board. The children are in search of a sugar bowl, which has vanished into a treacherous underwater cave, so small that only the children can enter it. Unfortunately, the cave is filled w
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Jun 08, 2010
Daniel
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The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket is about three orphans that fall from a mountain and land on the sled that they were riding and a submarine emerges from the ocean and the man the comes out of it and says that he knows them. They go on a submarine ride in search of the sugar bowl that was throw out the burning building of V.F.D. The crew on board the vessel is Captain Widdershins(who's motto is he who hesitates is lost), his stepdaughter Fiona, and Phil, who the Baudelaires had meet at the Luc
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Jan 01, 2012
Elliot
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I feel such pity for my friends who stopped reading the series here! Though The Grim Grotto has wonderful merits -- including hilarious pirate-speak, a more humorously allusive Sunny, and the history of the man with two hooks instead of hands -- it cannot compare to the beauty of final two books in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
The adventure in The Grim Grotto is among the series' most gripping. Beneath the sea, the Baudelaires and Fiona drift through the black currents into the Gorgo More...
The adventure in The Grim Grotto is among the series' most gripping. Beneath the sea, the Baudelaires and Fiona drift through the black currents into the Gorgo More...
Aug 31, 2009
Sam
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Title: The Grim Grotto (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #11)
Author: Lemony Snicket
Ever since I was young, I always wanted to visit the deep sea, because I thought the deep sea is full of mysteries, suspires, and freedom. When I picked up the 11th book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Grim Grotto; I was quickly enthralled by the mysterious cover.
In the 11th book of A Series of Unfortunate Event, the Grim Grotto, the Baudelaire orphans get a chance to visit the de More...
Author: Lemony Snicket
Ever since I was young, I always wanted to visit the deep sea, because I thought the deep sea is full of mysteries, suspires, and freedom. When I picked up the 11th book of A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Grim Grotto; I was quickly enthralled by the mysterious cover.
In the 11th book of A Series of Unfortunate Event, the Grim Grotto, the Baudelaire orphans get a chance to visit the de More...
Sep 01, 2011
Drew
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The final trilogy has begun! The Baudelaires are back together, but things quickly take an expected turn for the worse when they're washed out to sea. Picked up by a passing submarine, the web of their lives continues to simultaneously tangle and unravel. Count Olaf makes his appearance before long, and the orphans face a life-threatening situation and some pretty big decisions leading up to the last two volumes.
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Jun 11, 2011
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Apr 29, 2010
Kara
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If you are lookinng for excitement, look no further. The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket is a very thrilling, and exciting story. It teaches you about friendship, trechary, and more. this book, the eleventh book in the Series of Unfourtunate Events series, is about three children, the Bauldalaires, and the many problems they face at the bottem of the ocean, in a submarine called The Queeneg. They are aborbed in many mysteries, about an artifact, an orginization, and more.
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Dec 16, 2010
Giannina
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For Beatrice-
Dead women tell no tales.
Sad men write them down.
I remember being really interested in this story when I first read it. I remember worrying if Sunny was going to die. My heart beated hard when the two older Baudelaire children were trying to cure Sunny. And I was really happy and relieved when Sunny whispered out the word: "Wasabi." But unfortunately, when I read this book again, for the 4th time (or 3rd- I forgot), I was just really anxious to get it o More...
Dead women tell no tales.
Sad men write them down.
I remember being really interested in this story when I first read it. I remember worrying if Sunny was going to die. My heart beated hard when the two older Baudelaire children were trying to cure Sunny. And I was really happy and relieved when Sunny whispered out the word: "Wasabi." But unfortunately, when I read this book again, for the 4th time (or 3rd- I forgot), I was just really anxious to get it o More...
Jan 10, 2012
Sanskriti
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In this 11th book of the series, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves aboard a submarine of Captain Widdershins. The captain along with his daughter is manoeuvring the submarine in search of the elusive sugar bowl. The Baudelaires seem to be getting along fine until they reach the grotto where poisonous mushrooms grow and before long one of the siblings will be poisoned. To make matters worse their worst enemy will confront them yet again, intent on the Baudelaire fortune.
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Jul 27, 2011
Audrey
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I thought that this book was GREAT! In this book Violet, Klaus and Sunny find a very old Submarine.
When Violet, Klaus and Sunny are in the Submarine, they find out that they have to go under water and find the Sugar Boul before Count Olof does. While they are looking for the sugar boul they take off their diving helmets and look around. After they are done looking around, they put their diving helmits back on and go back to the submarine. When Violet was about to take Sunny out of the divin More...
When Violet, Klaus and Sunny are in the Submarine, they find out that they have to go under water and find the Sugar Boul before Count Olof does. While they are looking for the sugar boul they take off their diving helmets and look around. After they are done looking around, they put their diving helmits back on and go back to the submarine. When Violet was about to take Sunny out of the divin More...
Jan 19, 2012
Tosin
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Rushing to find something in the library to entertain me for the next three days [for that is how long it takes me to read a book [or less]], I grabbed this one. I had downloaded the first book in the series and read it on my laptop, and that was all I had read of the series. I was rather sad that I would be skipping a good ten books of the series, but this was nevertheless, an interesting read.
I found the excessive explanation of the words in this book annoying, however. Often, he pu More...
I found the excessive explanation of the words in this book annoying, however. Often, he pu More...
May 16, 2011
Angie
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The story begins explaining the water cycle, a boring but a nice comparison in the end.
I like how it ended, because it remarked that a horrible, dependent and submissive cycle was broken, showing that the Baudelaires have changed and grown up since the last time they were at Briny Beach.
It has been mentioned in books before, either directly or undirectly, that there is not clearly a good and bad side as the media puts it, everyone has both a good and bad side.
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I like how it ended, because it remarked that a horrible, dependent and submissive cycle was broken, showing that the Baudelaires have changed and grown up since the last time they were at Briny Beach.
It has been mentioned in books before, either directly or undirectly, that there is not clearly a good and bad side as the media puts it, everyone has both a good and bad side.
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Jan 09, 2009
This book was....entertaining. It took me a while to read it but i got trough it. The Baudelaires are very smart for their age. I was very impressed by what they have acomplished. I am continuing to read the rest of the serious. What i really like that Lemmoney Snicket does is he builds a lot of suspence to the story. For exsample when the children were in the water and they found a submerine thing but they didn't know who it was and they asked for a password. That part was the most entertaini
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Nov 16, 2010
This book is about how the Baudelaire orphans has to go find a sugar bowl and while they are searching for it, they discovered a man that is also trying to find the sugar bowl. They go together in his submarine and they soon go into this cave that they think the sugar bowl is in. They come across these deadly fungi that can kill you within two hours. They soon discovered that wasabi can cure it and they feed it to their sister. Did they find the sugar bowl? Read it. You will find it out.
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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...
Sep 27, 2010
This book describes the miserable life of the Baudelaire children. The life of misery for these three children. as they discover mysteries about their parents they find more mysteries to find about. They have just lost their good friend Quigley Quigmire, and they have to find a sugar bowl. I love these series because they want to make you keep reading these books forever. There are always mysteries hidden in the events that happen to them. Right now, they are in a submarine in the search of a su
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Dec 07, 2011
Kaitlynk
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I think this book is only meant to be read by people who have read the other 10 books.
This book continues the story of the Baudelaire children, and how in the last book (the slippery slope) at the end they escape the grasps of their first "caretaker" COUNT OLAF. Now they are riding a iceberg in the middle of the ocean. A few hours later they bump into a submarine and aboard the submarine are three members of the V.F.D.
The captain says the Baudelaire children must go More...
This book continues the story of the Baudelaire children, and how in the last book (the slippery slope) at the end they escape the grasps of their first "caretaker" COUNT OLAF. Now they are riding a iceberg in the middle of the ocean. A few hours later they bump into a submarine and aboard the submarine are three members of the V.F.D.
The captain says the Baudelaire children must go More...
Oct 08, 2011
Scarlett
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I got through this one really quickly. One of my friends told me the later books introduced some moral ambiguity (or perhaps morel ambiguity hehe?) and I think this is where that kinda starts. I'm actually not sure who is on which side anymore. The earlier books portrayed the conflict as a battle between good and evil, but despite the very real character of the narrator most of the action and knowledge is shown from the children's perspective so it seems as though their misinformation could b
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May 30, 2011
Victoria
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The Grim Grotto is an underwater cave that hides a deadly fungus. They arrive there after escaping the Mortmain Mountains (where they met the third Quagmire triplet) and are taken aboard a submarine called "The Queequeg". The sub's captain is an interesting character...who mysteriously disappears. Sunny gets infected by the deadly fungus and almost dies, their new friend turns out to be the sister of one of Olaf's henchmen and they find out more clues about VFD and their parents' in
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Oct 05, 2011
Julie
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I really should have kept up on my SOUE reviews a little better…it's hard to remember all my thoughts now. Ah well. Anyway, I did really enjoy this one. There’s real peril--I remember reading it for the first time and gasping out loud at a particular point. I also think there’s a real sense of the rising stakes for the Baudelaires as dangers start closing in around them. The one major downside to this book is Captain Widdershins who has some of the most irritating dialogue in the whole seri
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