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Jan 10, 2008
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Dec 17, 2009
Barbara
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This book INFURIATED me! What a lazy author. Taking us down the garden path through 12 books and then ending the series without really completing the story. As a children's librarian, I no longer recommend this series to kids. I hate to see them as disappointed as I was at this really stupid final book. Shame on you, Mr. Snicket!! You took the chicken's way out. Next time, have an idea of where you expect the series to go before you start it. Truly shameful.
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Jul 04, 2009
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Dec 16, 2009
Amy
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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
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Oct 21, 2007
Ruben
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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 sum it all up, the biggest "problem"
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Jan 22, 2008
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Nov 17, 2007
Dan
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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
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Aug 21, 2007
Eric
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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.
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For the record, around the third book I was worried that things were starting to get too formulaic and that I might be getting More...
Dec 16, 2009
Scott
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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.
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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.
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Dec 16, 2009
Dan
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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.
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It's still Lemony Snicket, so it's still funny and clever and everything you like More...
Oct 14, 2007
Chris
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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 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 More...
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Mar 14, 2008
Crazy Uncle Ryan
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This left me with a lot of unanswered questions. I don’t feel like I really understand what exactly VFD (either the villains or the volunteers) were really up to. Ultimately, I was a bit disappointed with this one because throughout the whole series I had been waiting to find out what was going on and I never really did.
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Feb 07, 2012
Emmy
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Ok, so this book was very interesting. I was looking forward to the ending of this series because I assumed that it would answer some of the questions that I had been wondering throughout the entire series. I was wrong. It came to a disapointing end....answering no questions that it had asked during the previous books. It just ended. However the reason I rated this book 4 stars is because this series really did need to end it this way! I loved all the books and how mysterious they were and it re
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Jan 08, 2009
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Aug 14, 2008
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Dec 16, 2007
Shawslayer
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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
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Nov 13, 2008
Jennifer
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This was a book that I dreaded reading and honestly - reading the Snicket books has turned me off YA fiction a little. I was so happy to buy the 13th and so happy that the series was over.
I think they are clever books and they are well written - but they were still hard for me to pick up and I found myself avoiding them. Yet I am still a fan of the Snicket books. Weird. It's like a magnet that both repels and attracts me.
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I think they are clever books and they are well written - but they were still hard for me to pick up and I found myself avoiding them. Yet I am still a fan of the Snicket books. Weird. It's like a magnet that both repels and attracts me.
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Jan 14, 2009
Liliana
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i finish reading all of the series of unfortunate events book. this book was the one that interested me the most, because it was the last one where the life of the the orphans will be decided. i thought that in this book there parents would come back, because there were hints from other books that they were alive. i also thought they would reunite with the quagmires, because they kept on saying it in the other books. the baudelaires landed on an island where they found out things that they d
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Dec 15, 2008
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Feb 01, 2012
Nancy
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I obviously didn't expect a happy ending...after all, the series is called A Series of Unfortunate Events. As a whole, the series was entertaining enough. Each book and each tragedy moved the story of the Baudelaire orphans forward. However, The End, while certainly thought-provoking, seemed to have lost all of the spark the previous books had. It became a bit late to try and humanize Count Olaf, even though they had been building towards that for a few books. While I didn't expect everything to
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Dec 22, 2011
Nicholas
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I read a review right here on goodreads from a librarian severely chastising Snicket over the ending of The End for not giving the proper closure. This librarian seemed rather incensed by the notion that an entire series built on failure, unfulfilled expectations, and the fearful unknown didn’t end by answering all the lingering questions. I think Snicket would have felt a perverse thrill from such a response.
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Dec 01, 2011
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Nov 20, 2011
I have rather mixed feelings about this series, which is clever and fun at times, but also a bit like being forced to play a game of Gloom, the Gorey-esque card game where the point is to make your character as miserable as possible. In other words, the book sometimes seems overstuffed with twee melancholy.
That said, I think the series takes an interesting turn from the repetitive formula (the Baudelaire orphans get taken in somewhere until Count Olaf and his henchmen come to capture t More...
That said, I think the series takes an interesting turn from the repetitive formula (the Baudelaire orphans get taken in somewhere until Count Olaf and his henchmen come to capture t More...
Sep 07, 2011
Selin
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I am one of those people who loves to read books like A Series of Unfortunate Events. This story is focused mainly on the Baudelaire orphans. Their parents were killed in a horrible accident which is better explained in the first book of the series. Theres only one bad thing about this. Count Olaf is back again with his ridiculous costumes and horrible plots.
The three siblings Violet,Klaus, and little Sunny have washed up on an island where they become friends with an island native. T More...
The three siblings Violet,Klaus, and little Sunny have washed up on an island where they become friends with an island native. T More...
Jul 29, 2011
Audrey
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I thought that this book was GREAT! In this book Violet, Klaus and Sunny have to share the same bout as Count Olof. But when Violet, Klaus, Sunny and Count Olof are in the bout, a big storm comes, and sweaps them on a island. The Peaple on the island did not let Count Olof on the Island, But let Violet, Klaus and Sunny on. While Count Olof was in the water he came up with a plan to steal the Baudalairs ( Violet, Klaus and Sunny ) fortune. When Violet, Klaus and Sunny went to the coastal shelf (
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Jul 23, 2011
Phillip
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Rather than comment on each book, I chose the cover the entire series in one fell swoop. The course of these thirteen books paints a bleak world full of bumbling adults who are too caught up in their vain self interests and faulty philosophies to prove to be of much value to a trio of siblings dealing with the sudden loss of their parents and the ensuing persecutions from a villainous count. A wide enough variety of foibles are paraded before the reader, that they are likely to see themselves
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Jul 10, 2011
Kristine
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THE END by Lemony Snicket --- This is the thirteenth book in a very successful series aimed at juvenile readers called A Series of Unfortunate Events, featuring the continuously unlucky Baudelaire orphans and their nemesis Count Olaf, who wants control through guardianship of the children’s sizable inheritance.
The opening scene finds Violet, Klaus, and Sunny adrift in the middle of the ocean with Count Olaf. A shipwrecking-style storm approaches threateningly.
The p More...
The opening scene finds Violet, Klaus, and Sunny adrift in the middle of the ocean with Count Olaf. A shipwrecking-style storm approaches threateningly.
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May 02, 2011
Bryan
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This is really my review of the whole Series of Unfortunate Events, not just The End, because I couldn't read just one of them and altogether they read like one long, sad story, not 13 separate tragic tales.
Many times throughout these books, the author admonishes (a word which here means, warns over and over in many different ways) the reader to stop reading the sad story of the Baudelaires, due to the fact that the story might cause the reader to cry, wail, become depressed, or distre More...
Many times throughout these books, the author admonishes (a word which here means, warns over and over in many different ways) the reader to stop reading the sad story of the Baudelaires, due to the fact that the story might cause the reader to cry, wail, become depressed, or distre More...
