For some reason I had the sudden urge to re-read these books... so I decided to start listening to them on audiobook! I have the 11th book in a physical copy, but I will eventually be picking the rest of them up as well.

The Bad Beginning, Lemony SnicketThe Bad Beginning is the first novel of the children's novel series A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The novel tells the story of three children, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, who become orphans following a fire and are sent to live with Count Olaf, who attempts to steal their inheritance.عنوانهای چاپ شده در ایران: «آغاز بد»؛ «شروع ناگوار»؛ «شروع بد»؛ «آغاز شوم»؛ نویسنده: لمونی اسنیکت؛ تاریخ نخستین خوانش روز شانزدهم ماه آوریل سال2011میلادی...

Up until now, the three Baudelaire children have lived a fairly lavish life, until a raging fire burns through their home with their parents inside. Their deaths are suspicious and nobody really knows how the fire started in the first place. Now they have nothing left and Mr. Poe must find a relative that’s willing to take on the responsibility of caring for them. “Mr. Poe opened his mouth to say something, but erupted into a brief fit of coughing. “I have made arrangements,” he said finally,

We have in Egypt this saying; "Who sees the Unfortunate Events of others feel solace about his own Unfortunates""اللي يشوف ميسفورشنت ايفينتس الناس تهون عليه ميسفورشنته" So, 2016 wasn't my year -EST, 2011- and now I'm hitting "rock bottom",having "A Series of Unfortunate Events"So I said, why not give this title a try"accompanied by this mysterious black cat that sat with me the whole 2 hours read"It's really dark-fun Misfortune kids Orphans' story..And a Gothic villain.And the author himself,

So the premise of this book (as the narrator keeps helpfully reminding us) is that this group of three children will continue to have difficult problems to overcome, and every time they succeed in dealing with one problem, another will crop up. In the writing business, this is what's known as 'a plot'.But then he takes it one step further: in addition to all the difficulties along the way, he assures us that the characters will never break this pattern, and there will be no 'happy ending'. I thi...

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 t...

This was fantastic! I read the series when I was a kid and then just now had to reread it for my Children's Lit class! And I'm glad I did! Because eff yeah! This! IS! GREAT!Daniel Handler/Lemony Snicket has such a distinctive tone and writing style, and it's one that I love. He's sarcastic and realistic and cynical and hilarious. Best of all, even though this is absolutely a children's book it treats the reader (who is technically supposed to be a child) as an intelligent human who is capable of...

YES!!! The least fascinatingly detailed book in my favorite series! It just keeps getting better and better, folks.So, for the three misguided people who haven’t read this series - first off, get ON THAT. What are you doing? There is nothing so important in your life that you can’t put it off in order to read this series.https://emmareadstoomuch.wordpress.co...Second, we follow the Baudelaires - Violet, Klaus, and Sunny - through what can only be Very Foreseeably Described as a series of unfortu...

*I'm not going to rate this, because I've already read this book & stand by my first rating of it. I adore this story so much & I'm so happy that I took the time to re-read it. It made me feel SO nostalgic reading it. I can't wait for the netflix series!!

I'm reading through this series with my daughter Celyn (10 years old, very disabled, hence Dad does the reading).Edit: Finished & reviewed all 13!So, this is a clever, entertaining book set in a world like ours but populated with bizarre characters and with distinctly dark undercurrents.Recurring themes throughout the series are:i) Adults are mindbogglingly stupid.ii) The narrator, Lemony Snicket, is a character we glimpse in tantalising snatches.iii) Words that stretch a child's vocabulary are

If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most...

I’m ashamed to say that before today, I had not read this sorrowful series of books.I grew up watching the Jim Carrey movie adaptation of A Series of Unfortunate Events, but this was my first time actually reading it! And I’m extremely unhappy to say that I unfortunately loved it! 😉Such terrible events!

I started reading The Series of Unfortunate Events to help me with a small reading slump. Each book is easy to read and nice and short. I wanted to read them as a child but never did so this was a perfect opportunity to do so.

What an amazing book!!"They didn't understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so."Nothing happy happens in this book, but am so happy to say that you ought to read The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket.

MINI REVIEW IS POSTED If you have ever lost some-one very important to you, then you already knowhow it feels, and if youhaven't, you cannot possibly imagine it. I was pretty excited when I read this book because that was the first time I read this book and I also had no idea what the book was about and I quite enjoyed reading it. The book never bored me but the book wasn't really amazing either. it was just fine for me. Neither good nor bad. The characters in the book were pretty int...

Easily one of the best children's stories I've read, The Bad Beginning is a high stakes, whimsical twist of a fairytale.Count Olaf, the antagonist, ruins everything, but in a way that's super fun to read. As the stakes pile on, and bad luck for the main characters becomes the worst luck, and the tension reaches an all time high, the writing still maintains this playful even keel to keep everything fun and enjoyable.It had me tearing through pages to see just how bad the beginnings got. And I lov...

I never really did get into Harry Potter. I imagine that this is viewed as a crime by most everyone on this service. For some it is heresy. But, I refuse to stand shamefaced - Hogwarts just didn't do it for me.I didn't think this would either.However, I was more than pleasantly surprised. I am of a somewhat morbid streak, and the Series of Unfortunate Events books, I must say, tickles that grotesque bone in a way most pleasing.The story of the Baudelaire Children is one filled with tragedy and d...

Wow! I feel like I’m finally capturing something that was missing from my childhood. Like there was some gap in my imagination that I didn’t know was there until I started reading this series.I’ve seen the Netflix series, which only further reminded me that I had never read this series before and had been missing out. I’m in a very exciting part of the journey. The Baudelaires just escaped Count Olaf and his plot to steal their fortune and I find even though I know the basic premise of each stor...

Even better the second time around!

The Baudelaire children - Violet, Klaus and Sunny - are suddenly orphaned when their parents tragically die in a fire. Their new legal guardian? A distant relative, the devilishly conniving Count Olaf, who will stop at nothing - not even murder most foul! - to get his hands on the Baudelaire family fortune. So begins the children’s Series of Unfortunate Events… I know this is a kid’s book but I surprisingly really enjoyed it - it not only held my attention but entertained me quite a bit too! Eve...