The Bad Beginning, Lemony Snicket | 176 pages
Dear Reader,
I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune...
Lemony Snicket aka Daniel Handler has such a specific voice as an author. This book is a lot of fun. I love the vocabulary lessons mixed throughout. I do feel like the style would get grating were I to read the entire 13 book series.
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