It seems sort of insensitive to say this was fun but gee was this fun. I love reading middle grade because it's simply just fun. It always reminds me why I love reading so much

*3.5/5 Once again, super enjoyable ride. It is interesting to now be reading these as I'm watching the show. I am not watching episodes until after I have finished the book, but I'm curious if my visual of the characters is changing as I watch the show. Just a thought. I love how in this book, like the last, we get to see the Baudelaires growing into more intelligent and self-reliant people. Obviously they are still very naive in a lot of ways, being so young, but I love the way their relationsh...

Mr. Poe is an idiot but it wouldn't work any other way!

If I was Mr. Poe I would start believing the children when they freak out about some person being count Olaf. Not the smartest man, for a banker lol

This audio book is narrated by ‘Lemony Snicket’. He doesn’t have the same perfectly creepy whisper voice Tim Curry had but he told the story well enough. Interestingly, he also did not change his voice too much for each character. Side note: This narrator (unfortunately) does not do the Poe coughing.

*I'm not going to rate this, because I've already read this book & stand by my first rating of it. I know towards the beginning of this series that the books tend to follow a similar story structure, but I love that Lemony Snicket still finds fresh ways of telling the Baudelaire story!

By the third book of Snicket's series the formula is fully established and it is exercised here in full. Mr Poe dumps the kids on another kookie relative, Count Olaf turns up in disguise and they recognize him instantly. No adult will believe them. Olaf nearly gets his hands on the children. Through use of their singular defining skills the children thwart Olaf and the henchman selected to back him up this book. Mr Poe lets Olaf escape.It's still well done, but this one worked less well for my d...

I’m having so much fun reading this series for the first time!

You can also read this review @ https://readrantrockandroll.com/2018/...The children have managed to avoid capture by Count Olaf again and now meet their new guardian, Aunt Josephine. She recently lost her husband and lives alone atop a hill in a rickety house overlooking Lake Lachrymose. What is it with Aunt Josephine? She seems kind and the children feel safe, but she’s afraid of everything you could imagine and she’s absolutely obsessed with grammar. Life is quite boring there and the chil...

4.1 Ok this series is getting kinda inappropriate for children. I'm not even sure if it's a children's book anymore, since this one has a lot of dark, scary, and sensitive content in it. Nevertheless, it was still a fun and quick read just like the previous books. I really find it funny when Aunt Josephine keeps correcting everyone's grammatical errors. The kids always find a way to get out of their misfortunes, so there's really nothing to worry about them. But still, you can't help but symp

After watching the first 4 episodes of the new ASOUE series on Netflix, I decided to pause while I re-read books #3-4. I'm so glad I did, because I remembered very little in terms of details past book two, having read these book over a decade ago.I'm happy to see they still hold up and are tons of fun to revisit. And I'm loving the new series, so well done NPH and crew! Such a brilliant and faithful adaptation. My only gripe in this 2017 re-read is the insensitivity around the person in Count Ol...

This had the most interesting storyline thus far.Still super repetitive and weird style of writing.We are going to take a break after book 4 and come back to the rest of the series after.See if that helps freshen things up a bit.

4 STARS!!!Aunt Josephine is the definition of a whack job. I think Meryl Streep portrayed her PERFECTLY in the movie and I had fun imagining her as Aunt Josephine in the book. It was awesome. Mr. Poe is still a dumb ass and I'm waiting for Violet or Klaus to pop off at him soon. I want one of them to scream their head off at him just once because he is just UGHHH!!! Count Olaf is such an asshole, I really want the children to turn the tables and come up with plan to exact some Kill Bill revenge

I wrote a fairly oversized mini review for The Reptile Room. I do not foresee myself doing that for this one. It’s just...it doesn’t inspire the same emotion.Aunt Josephine is no Uncle Monty, guys. Like, she’s not supposed to be. But still.However. There is still cool stuff to be found in this. It is still Lemony Snicket, after all.The setting is particularly rad, which is impressive because this is one of my favorite worlds in all of literature. I like this lil village (shoutout to the Anxious

Oh my criminy, I am so done with this series! What happens in The Wide Window, the third book in A Series of Unfortunate Events? The EXACT SAME STORY THAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST TWO BOOKS! The Baudelaire orphans are placed with a distant relative, the villainous Count Olaf tries to do away with them and steal their fortune, he predictably fails, escapes, and the kids are relocated to some other hapless relative so the whole damn thing can repeat itself in the next book! I noticed this disappointi...

3.75* ~ WHY ARE ALL THE ADULTS IN THIS SERIES SO INCOMPETENT?! It's exhausting... (But equally kind of addictive?) Once again this was such a fun read!! Although? I don't think I enjoyed it quite as much as the first two books, simply because it felt a little too similar and repetitive. I'm intrigued to see what the rest of the series has in store. I'm hoping that the storyline will start to differ slightly to the first three, as so far the basic underlying plot has had pretty much the same stru...

Not as good as the first two for me. I didn't enjoy this story as much although the storytelling was up to its usual standard. I'm also getting kind of tired of pretty much the same thing happening in each book. I'm sure it's going to keep that format for the foreseeable future but I'm getting kind of bored of what feels like an endless loop to me. It would be nice to see something different so I'm not reading 13 versions of the same book just with different guardians and different morals to eac...

“There are few sights sadder than a ruined book.” Another funny volume, even though I enjoyed the first two more. I love aunt Josephine, and I can't help but imagining her as Meryl streep, and since she's one of my favourite actresses this may be one of the reasons why i like her so much! Anyway, it was fun, just the plot felt a little less interesting, especially the second half.

Those super unfortunate orphans get stuck with another ineffectual guardian, who can't keep them safe from the dastardly Count Olaf. Looks like they'll have to find their own way out of this tight bind all by themselves, again!Amateur Character Actor and Plotter of Evil Deeds............ Count OlafThe The Wide Window has some colorful characters, wonderful settings and enough action to keep this one entertaining through out. The overly apt naming of people and places gives this a very old-school...

UPDATE: 19/Jan/2017The review from before is invalid because I like this more than I did before. 30/Nov/2016This book was okay but I think didn't like it as much because it is a children's book. One thing I really don’t like it when the narrator of the book spoils it. He’s telling and story and then says what's going to happen much later in the book and it kind of ruins it.