Tag Archives: Lemony Snicket

Lemony Snicket: the Unauthorized Autobiography© 2002 Daniel Handler213 pages (containing “an overall feeling of doom”, according to the index.) As the official representative of Lemony Snicket in all legal, literary, and social matters, I am often asked difficult questions, even when I … Continue reading →

The End © 2006 Lemony Snicket 324 pages The End of the Series of Unfortunate Events begins on the open ocean, with the Baudelaires and Count Olaf in the same boat — having escaped a burning hotel and an angry … Continue reading →

The Penultimate Peril © 2005 Lemony Snicket 353 pages As its name suggests, we are nearing The End. Following clues left for them by VFD members, the children arrive back where the series began — at Briny Beach, where Sunny … Continue reading →

The Grim Grotto © 2004 Lemony Snicket 323 pages I continue the Series of Unfortunate Events. By this point in the series, the format has completely changed. The Baudelaire orphans are no longer being protected by the system and ushered … Continue reading →

The Slippery Slope © 2003 Lemony Snicket 337 pages The last book ended with the Baudelaire orphans not in a quiet place where they could reflect on their fate, but in a perilous place that threatened death within the span … Continue reading →

The Carnivorous Carnival © 2003 Lemony Snicket 286 pages Although for the first six books the Baudelaire orphans were bounced from one psychotic or useless guardian to the next, they had a sense of stability in that they knew Mr. … Continue reading →

The Hostile Hospital © 2001 Lemony Snicket 255 pages The Hostile Hospital represents a dramatic break in the series’ pattern: rather than Mr. Poe delivering the children to yet another guardian who will either die, denounce the children, or attempt … Continue reading →

The Vile Village © 2001 Lemony Snicket 256 pages “It takes a village to raise a child”, the saying goes — and the vile village of VFD takes that saying seriously when they join a government program that allows whole … Continue reading →

The Ersatz Elevator © 2001 Lemony Snicket 259 pages “I know what you mean,” Klaus said. “If someone had asked me, that day at the beach, if I ever thought we’d be climbing up and down an empty elevator in … Continue reading →

The Austere Academy © 2000 Lemony Snicket 221 pages Mr. Poe warned the children at the beginning of The Miserable Mill that it was becoming increasingly difficult to locate guardians and that if anything were to happen at the mill, … Continue reading →