The first of many. The three Baudelaire siblings – Violet, Klaus, and Sunny – have all sorts of awful things happen to them, but have each other (most of the time) to help survive and find things to enjoy in life. Pessimistic in such a way that it's funny. Wonderful interjections by the author including definitions of words without condescension and warnings of the sadness to come. It is blatantly, bluntly honest – which is refreshing and enjoyable. Because it doesn't have a happy ending, it seems more realistic than many books (although it also seems too sad to be actually real, it is more like life than most happy-go-lucky books).
| Title: | The Bad Beginning |
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| Author: | Lemony Snicket |
| Date published: | 1999 |
| Genre: | Children's Lit |
| Series: | A Series Of Unfortunate Events, #1 |
| Number of pages: | 162 pages |
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