Lizziegolightly's review
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1)
by Lemony Snicket
True, Roald Dahl wrote of careless adults and the children in their care. But, it seems to me that there was always someone or something helping to look out for the children.
Lemony Snicket seems to enjoy leaving these children to the most dreadful fo circumstances with no one to stick up for them.
I did not find this book to e at all uplifting or encouraging, as a found Dahl's books to be. This was filled with ugly, hateful adults who took repeated advantage of these children.
Not the kind of lessons I want my child to learn.
I appreciate your insights but have to disagree.
Lizziegolightly's review
The Bad Beginning (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 1) by Lemony Snicket
Lizziegolightly's review
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When I was a child, I learned a thing or two from reading the works of Roald Dahl. The most important of these lessons is that adults are, more often than not, either evil or oblivious and, to co-opt Lemony Snicket's writing style, by oblivious I mean "lacking conscious awareness; unmindful."
As an adult, I have only received mountains of proof substantiating the notion that adults are either evil or oblivious. All you need to do is watch the news or enter the workforce and you too will realize the same. So it is through this lens of animosity towards grown ups (hey, just become I am one doesn't mean I have to think like one) that I read the first installment of Lemony Snicket's 13-part serial A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Snicket, or his alter ego, seems mighty influenced by Dahl and Edward Gorey. Like the former, most of the adults in the book are worthless. Those who aren't are either dead or somehow taken away from the Baudelaire children. Like the later, bad things k...more
As an adult, I have only received mountains of proof substantiating the notion that adults are either evil or oblivious. All you need to do is watch the news or enter the workforce and you too will realize the same. So it is through this lens of animosity towards grown ups (hey, just become I am one doesn't mean I have to think like one) that I read the first installment of Lemony Snicket's 13-part serial A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Snicket, or his alter ego, seems mighty influenced by Dahl and Edward Gorey. Like the former, most of the adults in the book are worthless. Those who aren't are either dead or somehow taken away from the Baudelaire children. Like the later, bad things k...more
True, Roald Dahl wrote of careless adults and the children in their care. But, it seems to me that there was always someone or something helping to look out for the children.
Lemony Snicket seems to enjoy leaving these children to the most dreadful fo circumstances with no one to stick up for them.
I did not find this book to e at all uplifting or encouraging, as a found Dahl's books to be. This was filled with ugly, hateful adults who took repeated advantage of these children.
Not the kind of lessons I want my child to learn.
I appreciate your insights but have to disagree.
