Dear reader, There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed with caution... Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In ...
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Dear reader, There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read. But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans, then proceed with caution... Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children. They are charming, and resourceful, and have pleasant facial features. Unfortunately, they are exceptionally unlucky. In The End, the siblings face a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents. In the tradition of great storytellers, from Dickens to Dahl, comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary and irreverent, hilarious and deftly crafted. Despite their wretched contents, 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' has sold 60 million copies worldwide and been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey. And in the future things are poised to get much worse, thanks to the forthcoming Netflix series directed by Neil Patrick Harris. You have been warned. Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures? The Bad Beginning The Reptile Room The Wide Window The Miserable Mill The Austere Academy The Ersatz Elevator The Vile Village The Hostile Hospital The Carnivorous Carnival The Slippery Slope The Grim Grotto The Penultimate Peril The End And what about All the Wrong Questions? In this four-book series a 13-year-old Lemony chronicles his dangerous and puzzling apprenticeship in a mysterious organisation that nobody knows anything about: 'Who Could That Be at This Hour?' 'When Did you Last See Her?' 'Shouldn't You Be in School?' 'Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?' Lemony Snicket was born before you were and is likely to die before you as well. He was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious and prone to riot. He grew up near the sea and currently lives beneath it. Until recently, he was living somewhere else. Brett Helquist was born in Ganado, Arizona, grew up in Orem, Utah, and now lives in New York City. He earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Brigham Young University and has been illustrating ever since. His art has appeared in many publications, including Cricket magazine and The New York Times.
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New. Part of "A Series of Unfortunate Events", this last book lets you know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children. Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events. Num Pages: 368 pages, Black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: YF. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 186 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280. 2012. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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I loved all the other books in the seris, but the end was a bummerI would have wrote it different. How did they get off the island and back started.
I really wanted there to more books but overall it was an ok book.
vwbecki
Jul 15, 2009
Great series, the ending a huge disapointment.
I enjoyed reading books 1-12. Awsome books, They were cleverly written. But Book 13, The End was a huge disapointment. The ending left me the feeling the I must of missed something. I was confused by the ending. Great books to read, book 13 was a waist of time.
chasingshadows
Feb 10, 2008
Sadly Unresolved Series...
The previous book `The Penultimate Peril' awarded loyal readers of the Series of Unfortunate Events at last some small advancement and explanation of the greater themes of this series. Admittedly these were very small indeed and raised countless questions in response to the answers provided, but it was still a welcome change of pace and I enjoyed that book more than I had any of the ones that came before it in quite some time. If anything I had expected an even greater number of revelations in `The End', so many in fact that they would be tumbling over each other, rushing past one another and vying for the attention of the reader with every page, but in comparison to the previous book, `The End' is a title quite light on revelations for a large portion of the story.
But even more disappointingly...this story is depressingly weak, or at least it's so familiar in plot and standard set-up to the early books of this series that after 250 pages of the same-old, same-old with only one meagre revelation to sustain me, I was actually hoping that `The End' wasn't the end, but was in fact only the beginning of the end and that there might be another book as yet unpublished entitled `The Epilogue' that would offer me the closure I so desperately craved (*that's an ode to Lemony Snicket whose list-making-mania and constant-cataloguing-of-minutia and rampant-repetitiveness actually surpasses itself in this final tale!).
With the final fifty pages or so as the ending of `The End' drew near and a little bit of happiness was finally awarded the Baudelaire orphans and the author insisted that it was the best any reader of this series could hope for I couldn't decide whether I felt the same way, even though I could understand what the author was trying to communicate, it still felt like a betrayal that so much was left unexplained. Now I am left wondering whether the time I invested in this series was well spent, or a colossal waste of a small portion of my life.
One piece of advice- set expectations to zero and you might just escape this novel and this series by gleaning some small amount of satisfaction from the sadly unresolved story of the Baudelaire orphans.
Angie
Apr 9, 2007
An 'End' for the Ages
As a huge fan of the entire season, I was curious as to if it could end as well as it started... But, thankfully, I LOVED it!!! It made me desperate (in a good way) to read the entire series through, looking for all the answers to all the questions.
It was also surprisingly poignant, I thought, at the end. It was soft and gentle instead of laugh-out-loud funny (not that it didn't have it's hilarious moments earlier on). And I was kind of glad. Because even though the series is a bunch of clever jokes and crazy lunacy, I've been reading it for seven years, and wanted a feeling of completion. And Lemony Snicket (I refuse to call him Daniel Holder, lol) did just that!
