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Title: A Box of Unfortunate Events: The Dilemma Deepens (Books 7-9: The Vile Village, The Hostile Hospital, The Carnivorous Carnival) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0-06-055620-X Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Books 7-9: Even better then the last three....
Comment: Maybe you're just browsing through to see how good these books are because you've never read these, or because you've read up to book six and want to know if these are just as good, or up to par, or whatever. Well, fear not! These books are EVEN BETTER!!!
Since I am reviewing the box-sets, I would say this one is my favorite. Why? Well, it is because these books begin to change the series, they lead it into an entirely new direction as a whole. By the time you read these and get to the latest "The Slippery Slope", it almost feels like an entirely new series, but an a good way. The characters are more defined, the situations are more absurd, and the plots are tighter. So with that said... ONTO THE BOOK REVIEWS.! :D
Book Seven: The Vile Village - This is a book that deals with a town obsessed with birds(crows), and has thousands of rules that center around protecting them or protecting the rules. Its basically a totalitarian society. So this books focus is a primitve government that is out of hand. They have a system where you don't get a fair trial hearing, you don't get to tell your story, this is because all they care about is burning people at the stake. The reason that the children are here is because the village VFD goes by the aphorism "It takes a village to raise a child.", and so the children get to choose a village to be raised in since no one else will take them. They choose V.F.D. for obvious reasons(if you've read the previous books). So that is all I will reveal, because if I tell you more, it will ruin the story.!
Book Eight: The Hostile Hospital - I could'nt wait to get to this book.! Mainly because of the morbid cover, it looked awesome.! Anyways, this book has the children on the run(no I'm not going to spoil why.), so they find a way to become volunteers at the hospital in the Archival library in hopes of finding out information on V.F.D. and Jaques Snicket(wont ruin that either). Really their's not much I can say without ruining it. But this book is fun because it reveals a few secrets and takes some new twist in the characters and story. :D
Book Nine: The Carnivarous Carnival - This book is interesting because of how the Baudelaire's get here, what they do in it. Things they thought they wouldn't do in a million years, and over and over they find themselves doing them. I wont give anything away, its impossible to summarise the plot without giving anything away since if you're reading this you probably haven't read the other two preceding it, so I wont. But it captures the carnival atmosphere perfectly and its great.! :D
Anyways, I'd say that this is a great set to buy, of course if you can't afford it you can buy the three books seperately or go to library, but be aware that you WILL want each IMMEDIATELY after the other. So if you can, get ALL THREE AT ONCE.! + The Slippery Slope, which is in my opinion the best book yet, this series just keeps getting better.
God Bless & *enjoy* ~Amy
Rating: 5
Summary: Keep On Going Klemony Snicket!!!!!
Comment: I'm an eight-year-old child who really really enjoys books by Lemony Snicket. These books are as great as all the other books by Lemony. To all young readers I really recomend this author!
Rating: 5
Summary: Not quite the same series
Comment: As a first-time children's author, Lemony Snicket has endured a comparatively rough start and continued on to write these three books: "The Vile Village," "The Hostile Hospital," and "The Carnivorous Carnival." Though the merits of each of Snicket's books are strong as individual units, he has only begun to interlace the series into a solid unit of overlying congruence. Choices made first during the fourth through sixth books set the series as they today stand into two differing units: the simpler, more formulated novels of his early career and the later books which delve into V.F.D. and the overall culmination of a coalescing unit. Now that Snicket has eased through the transition, we find the Violet, Klaus, and Sunny in an entirely new series of events - ones in which they must save their newfound friends the Quagmires, piece together the mystery surrounding their parents' deaths, and possibly put an end to Count Olaf and his villainous associates. Their goals have increased in scope from day-to-day survival, the well-established futility of saving unsympathetic characters, and momentary escape from the troupe. A further pleasant surprise can be seen to convey the dynamic progression from novel to novel: the elimination of a common return-point between books described through the character of Mr. Poe, overseer of the orphans' affairs, who was earlier used to take away the Baudelaires at the end of one story and deposit them in the next. Finally, the characters themselves are changing, becoming more able, and slowly starting to grow up.
Book seven, "The Vile Village," immediately turns things on their ear in regards to structural prescription, but Snicket is wise to keep some elements intact. Every novel describes differing yet categorically similar situations; for example, the common presence of a guardian (legal or otherwise), the application of unpleasant chores or labor upon the orphans, and the acting skills of Olaf to insert himself and his associates into the otherwise nonthreatening cast. While Olaf was once unfailingly revealed by the orphans approaching the books' conclusions, however, this is no longer the case. These novels have finally found the Baudelaires far enough from home that personal safety is not in the recipe of each story's conclusion. By the ninth book, "The Carnivorous Carnival," more structural changes have taken place. If this trend continues, subsequent installments will prove to be much more dependent upon one another rather than as stand-alone reads. Snicket is going somewhere with his series, and we are still waiting to reach the apex.
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