A Series Of Unfortunate Events Reptile Room Pdf
Title: A Series of Unfortunate Events #2: The Reptile Room - eBook By: Lemony Snicket Illustrated By: Brett Helquist, Michael Kupperman Format: DRM Protected ePub Vendor: HarperCollins Publication Date: 2009 ISBN: 143 ISBN-13: 143 Ages: 8-12 Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events Stock No: WW72360EB.
Dear Reader,
If you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale. Im afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but dont be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery.
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In fact, within the pages youven years and thirteen episodes, the much beloved A Series of Unfortunate Events books are drawing to a close. At least, thats what Snickets handler Daniel Handler says. But before getting to what promises to be the most unfortunate event of all, it is first necessary to familiarize oneself with the mysterious man who created a mega-selling series of childrens novels pivoting on the premise of placing young people in peril. According to his autobiography Lemony Snicket: the Unauthorized Autobiography, Snicket grew up near the sea and currently lives beneath it. To his horror and dismay, he has no wife or children, only enemies, associates, and the occasional loyal manservant. His trial has been delayed, so he is free to continue researching and recording the tragic tales of the Baudelaire orphans. Hmmm. Perhaps an autobiography purporting that it may or may not be true isnt the best place to begin. Instead, let us focus on Daniel Handler, the man who might actually be responsible for composing the Series of Unfortunate Events books according to certain skeptics (which include Handler, himself). Daniel Handler has been asked many times why anyone would want to make a career of chronicling the ghastly trials of a trio of ill-fated orphans. When I was young, my favorite stories were not the sort of childrens books that are constantly being thrust at you when youre little, he explained in an audio essay on Barnes & Noble.com. I didnt like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a childs head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family. So, I guess it should not be surprising that when I turned to childrens literature I tried to think of all sorts of interesting things to happen to small children, and all of these things were pretty dreadful. Handler has long made it clear that his wildly popular series would be limited to thirteen installments. The Penultimate Peril: Book the Twelfth finds the much-beleaguered Baudelaire orphans enjoying a family vacation at a menacing hotel, and Handler is wrapping up his saga with The End: Book the Thirteenth, which promises to tie up all remaining threads in the story in an undoubtedly exciting manner. However, the conclusion of his series is no indication that Handler plans on bringing his writing career to an end. He has also written adult-targeted titles under his own name, including his latest, Adverbs: A Novel. This exploration of love, which Publishers Weekly deemed lovely and lilting, may forgo the trademark Lemony Snicket wry morbidity, but Handler ensures readers that the book isnt without its own unfortunate events. Its a fairly miserable story, as any story about love will be, he says. People try to find love — some of them find it, some of them dont, some of them have an unhappy time even if they do find it — but it is considerably more cheerful than any of my so-called childrens books.Good To Know
Daniel Handler has a potentially embarrassing confession to make: he is an avowed accordion player. Handler says that when he told his parents about his decidedly uncool musical pursuits, they reacted as if I had taken up heroin. His interest in music does not end with the accordion. Close friend and leader of indie-rock band The Magnetic Fields Steven Merritt has written an original song for each audio book version of the Series of Unfortunate Events books. Merritt and Handler will be releasing a CD of all 13 dreadful songs when the final installment of the series is published in late 2006. Handler also lent his accordion-laying talents to The Magnetic Fields critically acclaimed album 69 Love Songs. Handlers persistence may rival that of the never-say-die Baudelaire orphans. His first novel, The Basic Eight, was rejected 37 times before it was finally published. He enjoys the work of novelist Haruki Murakami so much that Handler devoted an entire essay to the subject in the plainly and guilelessly entitled Village Voice review, I Love Murakami. According to a former high school classmate writing in the local paper, Handler was voted not only Class Clown, but also Best Actor, Chatterbox, and Teachers Pet. A few fun facts from our interview with Handler: I can cook anything. I know one very good card trick. I auditioned for an enormous role in the film Gigli.
About book: These books are amazing. This book is a little darker than the first. It tells you right from the beginning that Uncle Monty will be killed. Other examples of darkness: p. 51 ..he would slit the throats of the Baudelaire orphans as easily as you or I might eat a small butter cookie. p.76 If I wanted to harm you, orphan, your blood would already be pouring down these stairs like a waterfall.p.88 The hallway was strangely quiet, and blank as the eyes of a skull.p.96 It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try to readjust the way you thought of things.This last thought, about losing a person you love, is so true and poignant. I love these books for this reason. One of the most brilliant and touching aspects of these novels is the support, love, and intelligence of the Baudelaire orphans. Snicket really emphasizes the great blessing it can be to have brothers and sisters. One particular thing that I noticed in this book was how helpful it is to have people with shared memories. One of the greatest things about siblings is you have shared memories about how your parents were, how your house was, what growing up was like, etc. This is mentioned in The Reptile Room (page 39).There are a few instances of profanity in this book. No profanity was used in A Bad Beginning. 'Damn' and 'hell' are the words used, and they are used by the villain and frowned upon by the orphans. I don't take any issue with the profanity in this book - ten-year-olds will have heard these already and I thought they were appropriate in the context (pages 94 and 98).The most hilarious scene is when Mr. Poe panics in the Reptile Room of Uncle Monty's house. I laughed out loud.Here is a great example of Snicket's writing style:It is very difficult, experts have told us, to find a needle in a haystack, which is why “needle in a haystack” has become a rather hackneyed phrase meaning “something that is difficult to find.” The reason it is difficult to find a needle in a haystack, of course, is that out of all the things in a haystack, the needle is only one of them. 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 even a man who had escaped from prison and was hiding there. p.161 I also adore the feminist sprit shown in this book. Upon learning that Violet Baudelaire has picked a lock, Mr. Poe reacts with dismay:“How did you do that?” Mr. Poe asked. “Nice girls shouldn't know how to do such things.”“My sister is a nice girl,” Klaus said, “and she knows how to do all sorts of things.” p. 168 Way to go, Klaus! He stands up for his sister and also understands that she can be 'nice' and also be a 'mechanical genius' at the same time. A very powerful message for girls.It's obvious throughout the book that the siblings have each others backs. They are all intelligent in their own way, they all contribute to their plans. They have such a strong bond that is only getting stronger the more it is tested by Olaf and other villains. A highlight of this book is that Sunny finally starts using real words instead of her normal gibberish. I think she has two real words in here: Aha! and Brilliant. She is becoming more independent and more communicative and it is a joy to see. Just as in real life, when you watch children grow up and become their own people with their own opinions and distinct personalities, so Sunny is illustrated here with her burgeoning vocabulary and personality. Once again I want to mention how smart and educational these books are in addition to being funny and entrancing. Here are some words and concepts children will learn when reading this book: dramatic irony, alcove, segue, giddy, nemesis, surveillance, vainglorious, preempt, generic, brummagem, adding insult to injury, unblemished, hackneyed, inner sanctum, strangulatory, conjunction, tenebrous, hue, perpetuate his deception, swarthy, ruffian, and lampoon. Most of these are explained in a fun and stylistic way by Mr. Snicket, but others will have the child reaching for the dictionary.I would also like to note the subtle Agatha Christie joke on page 126. Adults who are fans of Christie's work will get a chuckle out of this.Kudos to Lemony Snicket for another thoroughly charming read.
So, Celyn and I cruised on to book 2, pausing only for breath.This book sets a pattern, a formula, that is repeated in each of the books we've read so far.The children move to a new place. All the adults are idiots. Count Olaaf arrives in disguise and at some point a selected member of his theatre troop will show up, also in disguise (someone may have been bumped off to make space for one or both of them). The children see through his disguise in an instant.The adults don't believe them.Count Olaaf insinuates his way into their lives and gets them to refer to him by his assumed name (via some kind of threat).Interesting words are introduced and defined amusingly in context by the narrator.Sunny makes short random utterances that are interpreted by the narrator as lengthy and cogent observations.The three children use their given skills (respectively inventor, bookworm, biter) to solve the problem of not letting Count Olaaf gain control of them.At the end Mr Poe is called in and Olaaf's disguise is revealed.Count Olaaf runs away while Mr Poe coughs then phones the police.Rinse and repeat.Because this is book 2, and because Lemony Snicket is an entertaining writer, the formula has not yet grown old.Things get darker in this book. Actual murder is done. Olaaf repeatedly threatens the children with a knife and with death.As the books progress there is a slow progression toward the cartoony and surreal. In this book though the action is still largely believable and the world recognizably 'real' - only the bizarre reptiles referred to in the reptile room take us toward make-believe, and only Sunny's contribution in 'biting rope into shorter lengths' takes us toward cartoony.This is then, a well written and entertaining book that establishes a formula LS proceeds to beat to death every book hereafter (at least as far as we've read). Fortunately LS's skills mean that this isn't as painful experience as one might think.