The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket Review
The Bad Beginning: A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony SnicketHarperTrophy, August 1999.
Hardcover, 162 pages
ISBN: 0064407667.
Ordering information:
Amazon.com.

The Bad Beginning is a wickedly funny book with a biting wit and wonderful illustrations. The morose narrator's tone is a perfect accompaniment for the bizarre and witty story, which owes more to Douglas Adams than it does to Ronald Dahl in its cheerful acceptance of the blatantly absurd. The always cheerful, always brave Baudelaire children leap from one disaster to the next, leaving the reader to hope against hope that the narrator is putting him on, and that a happy ending is just around the corner. Although published as a Young Adult title, this is one book that discerning adults will adore. Highly recommended.
--Claire E. White
A Series of Unfortunate Events continues with the second book, The Reptile Room.
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