Book review: Lemony Snicket
Who Could That Be at This Hour?
By Lemony Snicket
Why do I keep reading books by such a curmudgeonly author? (Here curmudgeonly means someone who thinks no one should read his books.) How come Lemony Snicket made himself the lead character in his new series? Why could I not put this book down? Who wouldn’t want to read it?
For those of you out there who loved A Series of Unfortunate Events, Snicket is back with a new children’s series called All the Wrong Questions. This is the first book in which we find Snicket setting off on a new quest that almost immediately seems more dangerous and daunting than one would initially expect.
Snicket still has the same witty writing style that has become his signature and he takes self-deprecation to a whole new level. Unfortunately, this book asks more questions than it answers…which may be the author’s completely brilliant (and evil) plan. I can’t wait to see what twists Snicket creates next. These books might be officially for kids, but any kid-at-heart will enjoy them.
Happy reading…
Amanda
PS If you only watched the movie of A Series of Unfortunate Events with Jim Carrey and were not satisfied, definitely give the books a try. They are SO much better.
Themocracy
I read this the other day, and I haven’t read the Series of Unfortunate Events series so I was context free, for the most part and it was still really good. As a stand alone novel, though, this reads sort of like Witold Gombrowicz’s Cosmos for junior existentialists. Which is a compliment. I look forward to reading this series further and gaining for insight into its mysteries, but I will cherish this initial reading.