The Bad Beginning

[Devan]

This being my first time reading from Lemony Snicket, i wasn't sure what to expect from "The Series of Unfortunate Events" books, i haven't always been a big fan of reading anyway, but these books really caught my eye. This book starts off with 3 children getting some very devastating news that their parents have just died and have gone to a terrible fire that has also destroyed their beautiful mansion. The children have been sent off to live with a well known banker known as Mr. Poe. This was for a very short period of time before being sent to another man. The new care taker or guardian, known as Count Olaf, is anything but nice to these kids. Count Olaf is the most evil person you could ever imagine.

Rhetorical devices such as foreshadowing are being used in this book. An obvious use of this is the very last picture in the book. It shows a building with a light pole looking thing off to the left, hat pole has a snake wrapped around it, which is on the cover of the second book. Another one would be where Snicket talks about a island off somewhere where you are forbidden to take fruit from the trees, then in the end of the book they are on the island and they have to eat the fruit, which is considered "Self-Exile." An example of metaphor would be on page 73, "His eyes were shiny ad bright." Motive is showed in this book because Count Olaf burns down their house and kills the parents so that he can have their fortune.

Over all I think this was a very good book. I'm able to understand it well and I would definitely recommend this series to anyone.

[Poodlelover158]

i really agree

[Emma]

honestly I like these books so far but its kinda a downer. I just finished the second book.

[Lonely]

Lemony Snicket was a great author to this book. I loved how Lemony Snicket put these unknown words and explained what they mean. For someone like me, I just finished the series last year and I loved it a lot. I read it way before the Hunger Games and I can tell u that it used to be my favourite book of all time.

This book is about.. 3 young children, Violet - a 14 year old, Claus - a 12 year old and Sunny - an infant who became orphans.
Violet was great at inventing stuff
Claus was great at knowledge and he was very smart.
Sunny's teeth were very strong and in the end she became a great cook.
but anyway.. During the whole series..
first u meet Count Olaf, their first guardian who only accepted to take care of them because they had a great fortune (money) so throughout the rest of the series he dusguises himself and does so much to try and get a hold of the children for their money.
Count Olaf isn't the most pleasing person he is rude, mean and don't know hhow anyone could've handled him if he was real.

Great book though and I hope people enjoy reading it :)

[Soubia]

I really liked Lemony Snicket's writing style and loved reading it, enjoyed it. But, in my view , the series is not closed properly. The puzzles were not all solved.
I admit that harsh reality is revealed in these books and in real life answer of every puzzle is not available but it's a book ! I learned many things from it and don't regret reading it but children needs hope that there's also goodness in this world. It's not always bad. A closure of some sort. The real reason of each event at least.

[Sophia]

Emma wrote: "honestly I like these books so far but its kinda a downer. I just finished the second book."

im up to the eighth book and want to read more!

[Emma]

I'm on the third book now and I'm really liking them.

[aarifa]

i finished them all! i liked it.