A Series of Unfortunate Events

[catorman]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., Tasha--Nethilia <nethilia at y...> wrote:
> No, nothing has happened to me (except some guy
> driving into a pole and shattering a glass light right
> behind my head, thus scaring the snot outta me). 
> 
> I'm talking about a really cool series of books I'm
> reading. I heard about it on the news--it's by a
> writer called Lemony Snicket, and a bunch of horrible
> things happen to the three main characters (Violet,
> Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, all orphans by the end of
> the first chapter of book 1). It's tragic but actually
> very cool. I've only read the first 3 and will have to
> find the money to buy the other 5 so far (it's going
> to have 13 books--since 13 is so unlucky and all).
> It's a very good detterent until Book 5 comes out (I
> need book five! =O). 
> 
> --Neth, who took out her braids and now has Hermione
> Hair and a desperate need for some Sleakeasy's)


I read them a while ago and got really bored with them.  For me they 
are definitely "Children's books" which should be read by children, 
rather than the kind which adults enjoy as well.  It wasn't the plots 
so much, which I found gratifyingly tragic and ghoulish, as you say - 
it was the endless vocabulary building sentences - ie. using a word 
and then saying "Which here means..."  over and over again.

Great to improve children's vocabulary, and they're very original, 
but I did find them annoying!

Catherine