I found myself feeling sorry for these 3 Baudelaire orphans and pretty much caught up with their adventures.

This is the 3rd installment of the Unfortunate Event Series, following the unfortunate lives of the 3 Baudelaire orphans, namely Violet (an Inventor), Klaus (the Bookworm) & Sunny (the baby who would bite anything, and I mean anything!) after living with their departed Uncle Monty, killed by Count Olaf, but he escaped in the process of about to put him behind bars.

Mr Poe (in my opinion, a useless main caretaker), a family friend who took care for the orphans fortune until Violet came to an age, brought them to live with another family member, name Mrs. Josephine Anwhistle, who lived in a house, in the edge of a hill (literally) above Lake Lachrymose, that is infested with Lachrymose Leeches, who would eat a human if they smellt food on them.

Living with Aunt Josephine, who was a total grammar freak and scared of every single thing, that they have to live in a cold house, eating cold food (she’s afraid of fire incidents) and the irony of being afraid of Lake Lachrymose, she actually lived on top of it. Yet counting their blessings the Baudelaire orphans, they felt lucky to be in a home with somebody that scared they actually feel secure. Until they came to a market one day and meet the Captain Sham, with a patch on one eye and a peg as one leg. but we all knew who exactly Captain Sham was, of course Aunt Josephine wasn’t very keen to believe the children.

One day, Aunt Josephine died, death cause, jumping through the window, leaving the three of them to Captain Sham (Count Olaf in disguised), and they knew Mr Poe wasn’t very keen to actually believe Captain Sham was Count Olaf in disguise (He simply believed they kids are hallucinating and seeing him everywhere).

The orphans tries to figure out a way to escape from the clutches of Count Olaf again when they discovered their aunt was still alive and was in hiding, somewhere. So they tried to get to her and tried to convince her to come back out to the world.

If you are looking for a happily ever after kind of ending for your kids, I suggest you look away from this series. But if you want to give a little modern era children facing somewhat real, you should let them read this one and of course, it’s not just for children. As before, we have free vocabulary lessons in this book as well. Enjoy.

Not as good as book 2, but still interesting. I have to agree with some of the consumers who have read this book, the definitions is beginning to get old and stale. Is this why Lemony Snicket never shows his face, because he knows that his loyal readers would lay the smack down? Still, I must know why happens next to Violet, Klaus, and Sunny.

i’m looking forward to being past the point that they got up to in the movie (which, so far, i have to say i enjoyed much more than the books).

i realize it’s meant to be funny that he defines words nonstop, but if i had read these as a kid, i probably would have been pissed and insulted and stopped reading them out of spite. it’s the most annoying, and condescending literary device ever used.

do they get better after this?