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The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #4)
by Lemony Snicket
by Lemony Snicket
These are really pretty crappy books. The jokey self-referential writing (which was already tiresome by the end of the first book) is just irritating after the umpteenth repetition, the characters are unsympathetic (in the case of the main characters), one-dimensional (everyone else), or obnoxious (the narrator), and the plot repetitive and predictable. It's a good thing I'm a devoted dad and if my son wants me to read these to him at bedtime, I'll grit my teeth and read 'em. But I don't have to like 'em.
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Feb 18, 2013 05:14pm
You are killing me!!!! How do you think that these books are CRAPPY!!! I can't believe you!
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Kitty wrote: "Does your son enjoy them? What does he like about them?"We made it most of the way through the series before he lost interest. I'm not sure exactly what he thought of them... eventually he just said "I don't want to read these anymore" and we stopped.
I realize that the things I dislike about these books are almost certainly intentional on the part of the author- and normally I'd get a kick out of the self-referential nature of the writing... it's just that the style is so repetitive that it's almost sadistic. It's Andy Kaufman-esque performance-art-as-writing, and it's not my cup of tea.
