The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3) | Lemony Snicket

The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3) | Lemony Snicket | couldn't put it down!

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	The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3) Lemony Snicket HarperCollins, 2000 - 224 pages average customer review:based on 228 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Great!

This was a great book!

The three kids go to another guardian: Aunt Josephine. She's a good guardian, but somewhat fickle. She's obsessed with grammar and corrects the kids at every moment. She's afriad of everything that is really ridiculous which doesn't make sense because of where she lives. Her house is on the edge of a cliff that overlooks a huge lake that's big enough to have hurricanes. Her house is only attached to the cliff by a few boards. Of course, Count Olaf comes and makes things awful in one of his unconvincing disguises...

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couldn't put it down!

Lemony Snicket shows that he puts a great deal of work into his writing and "The Wide Window" shows it! A series of unfortunate events is about three siblings who evdure a great deal of misfortane when their parents are killed in a terrible fire. Since then, they are sent to live with unknown relitives. In "The Wide Window" they are sent to live with their Aunt Josephene, who lives on a perculiar perched house, which is dangling over the side of a cliff. Aunt Josephine is terrified of just about everything, so the orfan's lives don't get much better, but as soon as their evil relative count oflaf shows up, thigns get even worse.
I enjoyed this this book because Lemony snicket chooses the coolest vocabulary to describe every unfortunate detail of the three orfans lives. He also enhances the scenary by using these interesting words, helping the reader pictrue a chrystal clear image of what is happening. The characters make you want to keep reading the book, for they are so strange. there is a person with an eye on his ancle, an inventer, a reader, a bitter and a grammer lover. I highly recomened it to readers who hate to put books down.

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Courtesy of Teens Read Too

Those poor Baudelaire orphans. After the death of their beloved Uncle Monty, the third installment of Lemony Snicket's tale has Violet, Klaus, and Sunny heading toward the home of yet another new guardian. Left by Mr. Poe at Damocles Dock at the edge of Lake Lachrymose for the taxi that will take them to the home of Josephine Anwhistle, the orphans must once again wonder about what fate holds in store for them. Will the gramatically correct dowager be kind like Uncle Morty, or retched like Count Olaf?

It turns out that Aunt Josephine is a mixture of the two. Although she welcomes them into her home, the woman is so terrified by everything--the stove, glass doorknobs, radiators, and even realtors--that the children are hard pressed to enjoy their dinners of cold cucumber soup and their presents of a baby doll, train set, and rattle. Living high above the Lake that is full of the leeches that devoured Josephine's husband, Ike, the three Baudelaire children have a hard time convincing their Aunt to even leave the house.

On a trip to the market, however, who should appear once again with yet another despicable plan to steal the Baudelaire fortune but Count Olaf--this time in the disguise of Captain Sham, a man with an eye patch and peg leg who has opened a boating company of his own. Josephine, of course, is at once enamored of the dashing Captain, and Mr. Poe, as always, is not convinced by the children's claim that Captain Sham and Count Olaf are one and the same. What follows is another does of typical Baudelaire fair--diabolical plans, a terrible hurricane named Herman, a bizarre restaurant named the Anxious Clown, a boat ride across a leech-filled lake, a rescue at Curdled Cave, and another meet-up with Count Olaf's nasty associates.

THE WIDE WINDOW is another winning story in the tales of the Baudelaire orphans. The story took me about an hour and a half to read, and is suitable for children around ages 9 and up. Again, however, you'll need to base your decision of its suitability based on the maturity of your children, as this book is just as dark as the first two.

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Same plot replaced with new caretaker & who count olaf is.

First of all I would like to point out that you do not need an audio book or CD to enjoy a book; it's called reading people. Second of all you should be commenting on who's reading the words, but how well the book is written and if you liked it. Get over it people. Many people also thought that this book lacked something that made the 1st and 2nd books good. I think what is lacking is a change in plot. These first 3 books all have the same plot, replaced by a new caretaker and who Count Olaf is disguised as. I would also think that Mr. Poe would finally trust the children after the first 2 times. I think Snicket's writing is good, but I do not like how he defines a lot of the words. Whenever I see a defined word in his writing I tell myself to remember that these books are written for young kids and not 17 year olds or older. He defines these words to help children understand their meanings, while introducing new vocabulary unless they knew the word's definition previously. Snicket is giving a child the same information they word learn from looking that word up in the dictionary. I also don't think that most little kids would sit there and try and figure out what word means with context clues. I think most little kids would be like "ok I don't understand this, it's too hard, let's not read it." It's helpful to those who can't use context clues and just kind of annoying to those who know the meaning of the words used, or like to use context clues to figure out their meanings. I have the first 5 books right now, and am moving on to the 4th book when I finish typing. I also just bought the other 8 books off of Amazon. These books are an investment of my money, and I will continue to read all the books. These books are not boring enough to just give up on them. Some readers say that the books actually do get better plots later on in the series. Thank you for reading my long review, and I hope you do not base you're thoughts on who is reading them on the Audio tapes and CDs.

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The Unfortunate Events become Fortunate

"The Wide Window" by Lemony Snicket was a very interesting book. When I first picked up the book I didn't think it was going to be that good, but then I started to read, it surprised me how attached to it I was. It all starts out with the Baudelaire children waiting once again for their new guardian come to pick them up. After their parents death from a terrible fire they go from house to house, while having Count Olaf chasing after their fortune. Count Olaf makes the lives of the Bauldelaire children very difficult to live. They currently live with their Aunt Josephine who is terrified of everything. What challenges will the children face this time? You will have to read it to find out.

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