Need some literary advice

[Caius Marcius]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "augustinapeach" 
<augustinapeach at y...> wrote:
> Hi, everyone.
> 
> Christmas is coming, and I'm looking for books to give my 8-year-
old 
> son.  He is a fairly advanced reader (has finished all five HP 
> books) who really likes the fantasy genre.  Usually, I like to 
> browse through a book before I recommend it to him (hope I don't 
> sound like "Mommy Dearest" -- just not quite ready yet to explain 
> certain things to an 8-year-old!!), but I can't see myself having 
> much time to do that in the next month. I'm wondering if any of you 
> might be able to give me a brief review of the following books -- 
or 
> be able to suggest others he might like.  
> 

I'd recommend "The Series of Unfortunate Events", ten books in number 
at present, regarding the three orphaned Baudelaire children and the 
ultra-evil Count Olaf,  authored by the unlikely Lemony Snicket

http://www.lemonysnicket.com/books.html

(by "unlikely" I mean that I do not believe that a real live person 
would possess so harmonious a moniker though I could be wrong).  

The tribulations visited upon the Baudelaire children make Privet 
Drive seem a paradise on Earth by comparison.

   - CMC