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Miss Ryoko
Jun 02, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: children-s-lit
Lemony Snicket is hilarious! This series is great! I'm glad I decided to read them!

2017 Update
It has been 12 years since I've read The Bad Beginning. I have loved this series from the moment I started it, all these 12 years. With Netflix releasing their tv show version of it (which, by the way, is fantastic!) I have had a strong desire to re-read these books.... so I've settled for listening to the audiobooks while processing requests at work.

Today I listened to the first book, and I found I st
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Lily
Apr 04, 2009 added it
The first book to the popular series "A Series of Unfortunate Events" by Lemony Snicket. A story about the
Baudelaire orphans: Violet the world finest 14 year old inventor,Klaus who is shy to his thirdteen birthday have read more books than one man in 3 life times and the infant Sunnny who likes to bite things. The encounter dangerous and misery times with Count Olaf their new tutor. That his only porpose to adopt them is to obtain the enourmous fortune their parents left behind or is their anoth
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Yulia Dela
Jan 04, 2010 rated it really liked it
it's wonderful how Snicket can combine few words become an amazing stories! i am curios how it ends. ...more
Simona-- I'm kind of intense
awesome book, basically goes for the whole series. def. my favourite.
Saya
Jun 11, 2009 rated it it was amazing
My all-time favorite series!!!!
Justin Schreck
Dec 20, 2009 rated it it was amazing
This is a good book
Mr.Jamie
Oct 12, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: ya
Nostalgia. Reading this series again and I notice a lot more elements of literature this time round than I did when I was 9.

4/5 Stars
Brinda
Jun 06, 2010 rated it liked it  ·  review of another edition
Great book. but I'm still wroking on the series.
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Bree.
Feb 08, 2009 rated it liked it
Alison
Mar 03, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Tory
Mar 28, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Katy
May 31, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: re-read, own, re-read-2024
~A.J~
Jun 09, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Megan
Jun 10, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Eric Ehrhardt
Oct 01, 2009 rated it really liked it
Erica
Nov 24, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Sarina
Nov 28, 2009 rated it really liked it
Sotiria Papadopoulou
Dec 25, 2009 rated it it was amazing
Gleniz
Jan 31, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: favorites
Joshua Davis
Jan 31, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Jaslyn
Feb 11, 2010 rated it it was amazing
Bhavi
Mar 28, 2010 rated it really liked it
Mil
Jul 08, 2010 rated it it was amazing
James
Sep 21, 2010 rated it really liked it
Shelves: young-adult, humor
Sampson Phillups
Oct 28, 2010 rated it it was ok
Shelves: adventure
Christy
Jan 03, 2011 rated it it was amazing