A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning; or Orphans!

 As I said in the last post, I’m going to start my book comments with A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. The saga tells the sad story of the Baudelaire children, who had lost their parents in a horrible fire, try to escape from the always evil Count Olaf, who wants the Baudelaire fortune.

In order to get the Baudelaire’s fortune (that the children can’t use until Violet, the oldest of the three children, turns 18 years old), Count Olaf will create horrible and every time darker plans that involve lies, disguises and sometimes murder.

But the three intelligent children (Violet, an amazing inventor; Klaus, a great researcher; and Sunny, with four incredibly sharp teeth) will make their own plans in order to escape from Count Olaf.

The first book, The Bad Beginning; or Orphans!,  was published in 1999 by Harper Collins and illustrated by Brett Helquist. The writer, Lemony Snicket, explains the story of the Baudelaire children, their family, their enemies, their friends and complicated words and phrases. After the jump, spoilers of the plot will start.

A Series of Unfortunate Posts

Rigth now, I’m kinda of obsess with Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. I discovered these books by watching the 2004 motion picture Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, with Jude Law as the narrator, Jim Carrey as Count Olaf and Daniel Handler as Lemony Snicket (wich is pretty ironic, because Lemony Snicket doesn’t exists, he’s just a character created by Daniel Handler himself). We can find in those books the really, really, really sad story of the Boudelaire children, who after the first book become the Boudelaire orphans.

Anyway, I wanted to read the books becasue someone told me that the movie has cut some of the parts in the books. I really hate that, but the movie was actually good. So, I watched the movie in 2004 and I expended 5 years trying to find the books so I could read them. I never find them. Apparently, in this country, the editorial was bought by the government and any library wanted to sell the books produced by the government (you can imagine wich tipe of president we have here).

So, in 2009, I was in a library buying school materials and when I was losing my time walking across the bookshelves, I found the second of the 13-books saga, “The Reptile Room”. I bought it immediately. I spent that year trying to find the other 12 books, but I couldn’t find neither the first nor the other eleven books.

Recently, I found a way I can read them. Some people may think it’s an irracional, impossible and maybe ilegal way, but I’m happy that I can enjoy the sad stories of the Boudelaire orphans. Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler is an amazing writter, and this saga is really great. I hope anybody could read it at any time in their lives. Anyway, by the time I’m writing this post I’d read the firts 4 books and I’m going to make posts about the ones that I already read and the ones that I’m going to read very soon.

The first book, The Bad Beginning; or Orphans! will be commented soon.

With all due respect,

M.J.

The Great Greeting

Welcome everybody to my blog. This is the first post, just to fill up the blog a little bit -wich looks pretty empty -, because as you have maybe noticed, it’s new. Anyway, I want to dedicate this blog to my books. The ones that I bought, the ones that someone gave me, the ones that I borrowed and similars.

If you enjoy reading as much as I do, please, feel free to comment. If you want to recomend a book, do it. If you want to share your ideas about the post, do it. If you want to disagree with my ideas, post it. If you want to threat someone… well, in that case I beg you not to do it.

Anyway. Thanks for reading! And remember: Read a good book, a newspaper and even a dirty napkin is, as a bowl of vainilla ice cream in the middle of a desert, one of the best things in the world.

M.J.