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| The Bad Beginning - Book 1 of A Series of Unfortunate Events | 
 enlarge | Author: Lemony Snicket
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 203407
Media: Paperback
Pages: 162
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 0439206472
EAN: 9780439206471
ASIN: 0439206472
Publication Date: 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
 Sick and twisted. No youth (or adult) should read it. September 28, 2007
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Things like a guardian trying to force a 14 year old girl to marry and tying up an infant and hanging her in a cage 30 feet in the air are REVOLTING. Why would anyone think this is appropriate reading material for teens or children?
 I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! June 6, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Hi, if you read the review for the complete wreck with all the exclaimation points, then you know this is the first of many great books! The books are extremly addicting and after reading it for about an hour I couldn't put it down!
Believe me, it's just great! :) I'll just tell you there at the beach thier house burns down Mr. Poe takes them to Count Olaf's he is mean and dirty and after the enourmous thier parents left behind after they died in the fire. Soud's interesting, doesn't it? If you read it it will get more interesting! If you want to read more of my reviews on the books, then just look for a bunch of exclaimation points!
HAPPY READING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)
The Bad Beginning of an addiction! March 15, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first of many books and a lot of drama. Much of the reasoning behind the different problems and ideas is completely out there, but it is addicting nonetheless. If you start reading this book you won't be done or feel satisfied even after reading every single Lemony Snicket book in print. That can be good or bad depending on how you like things!
Courtesy of Teens Read Too January 17, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
After already having seen the movie, I decided to invest in reading the books. Bk #1, THE BAD BEGINNING, only took me an hour to finish, and it was an enjoyable--if dark--read.
The Baudelaire children--Violet, Klaus, and Sunny--are left orphaned after a mysterious fire destroys their home and kills their parents. Taken into custody by Mr. Poe, the executor of their parent's estate, they learn that their parent's will states that they must be cared for by a relative. The closest relative, unbeknownest to the children, is Count Olaf, an actor and leader of a theatre troupe who lives in a dilapitated house on the other side of town.
Things, of course, only go from bad to worse after the children move into Count Olaf's home, which is strangely covered inside and out with drawings and representations of a strange-looking eye. Count Olaf even has a tattoo of the same image on his ankle. As the Count hatches a scheme to gain control of the Baudelaire fortune, which the children are not privy to until Violet comes of age, the children are alternately scared of their new "parent" and determined to find a way out of their dreadful situation.
I enjoyed this walk on the dark side, and plan on reading Book #2 in the series later today. That said, however, I think it depends on your child and his or her maturity as to whether this would be a good read for them or not. Although the reading material is suitable for around 8 years old and up, the book IS dark-natured, and might scare some children. If they've already seen the movie, they might be prepared for its darkness--if the movie depiction scared them, then hold off on the book for awhile.
Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"
4th Grade Review April 25, 2006
Our 4th grade class believes that Lemony Snicket's The Bad Beginning is a good book. We never wanted to stop reading, we always wanted to know what was going to happen next. The more we read the more interested we became in the story line.
As we read we could see the images described in the book in our heads, like our own little movie! One of our favorite parts about the book was that it warned us not to read the book if we wanted a happy ending. This inticed us to read even more. This suspense was kept throughout the novel.
Overall we think this book was a great challenging book for 4th graders . . . and by the way, what ever happend to Count Olaf?
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