These books are such fun reads! I'm having a
great time re-reading them all. It is great to be able to go back to them after
so many years, and to notice things I didn't when I was reading them for the
first time. Besides, I never got to finish the series. So, this will be a good
opportunity to revisit the books I have already read and read the ones I
haven't.
I didn't notice, during my first reading of
this book, how incredibly smart and terribly disturbing it is. And how it goes
from one terribly disturbing moment, such as Count Olaf rubbing a bade 'gently against
Violet's knee', to a funny moment, like the Baudelairs using the famous 'If
only he knew we knew that he knows' sentence.
Now, on to the next book!
Some of my favorite quotes:
"There is a pair of snakes who have learn
to drive a car so recklessly that they would run you over in the street and
never stop to apologize."
"This feeling is not unlike the sinking in
one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you
are snugly in bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the
person who has been hiding there."
'"Ackroid!" Sunny said, which
probably meant something like 'Roger!'"
"If, however, you were looking for anything in a haystack, that wouldn't be
difficult at all, because once you started sifting through the haystack you
would most certainly find something: hay, of course, but also dirt, bugs, a few
farming tools, and maybe a man who had escaped from prison and has been hiding
there".
Rating: 4/5
Rating: 4/5
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