The End (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13)

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Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780064410168
ISBN: 0064410161
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2006-10-13
Publisher: HarperCollins
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Release Date: 2006-10-13
Studio: HarperCollins

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Summary: loved the book but there are still ?'s i want answered
Comment: i read snickets series then i read the unauthorized autobiography because i still had ?s. im rereading the series now and i am currently on the 12th book. lemony snicket should have answered more questions. i mean what is that question mark thingy. i think it might be the 2 sinister people that were on the mortmain mountain but they said they were going ro get the quagmires and hector. and what is the importaint thing in the sugar bowl. what happened to captain widdershins. what happened to the quagmires. whats with the catalog in the pond. im hopping that the betriece letters will help clear things up

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Summary: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 13
Comment: Was a great ending to a very long, confusing and sometimes really boring story. Good luck getting thru this series.

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Summary: Janiceps (I have two minds about this.)
Comment: The End, by Lemony Snicket is an interesting book, I'll give it that. This is the final story in A Series Of Unfortunate Events. The book follows the story of three orphan, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire. They lost their parents in a fire that destroyed their home in The Bad Beginning, the first book. An evil man named Count Olaf follows them mercilessly, always hatching a plot to steal the fortune that the orphans' parents left behind. The Baudelaires don't get the fortune until the eldest, Violet, becomes an adult. He always gets into the Baudelaires' lives via a terrible disguise that only fools the adults, most of which are not very intelligent. Their current guardian is usually murdered by him in the course of his plan. The books follow this boring pattern until the middle of the series. Then it gets exciting.

The End is the climax of the series, the twelfth book, The Penultimate Peril, is also part of the very long climax. Contrary to expectations, The End is quite a boring book, devoid of one exciting part and a lot of cool twists. It still does feel like it belongs in the series, just maybe not the ending of it. Or maybe it should be. In The End, the Baudelaires go to an island full of people cut off from the horrors of the world. The story consists of Olaf up to his old and highly repetitive shenanigans and the Baudelaires relaxing on the island. But the island is full of secrets. Most of which you don't find out until the last few chapters. The book left me wondering how the longest book in the series could be filled with such little importance. The End takes the word cliffhanger to the extreme. The things you want to find out most are not straight out told to you, so there is no definitive answer to most of your questions. So you might not find out most of the secrets you want answered. It left me with the hunger to find out the secrets that drove me to read the series. The End is a big disappointment. It was entertaining, but not the exciting finish I hoped it to be. Although part of me does feel that it wouldn't be good if everything was spelled out for us.

J.M

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Summary: glad the end
Comment: the first 12 books were amazing after the 13th i wanted to give i was at the school library and it was horrible

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Summary: Tim Curry rocks
Comment: I picked this audio book up for two reasons.
1. It's read by Tim Curry
2. It's a way for me to learn a little bit about the Lemony Snicket craze (I work in a bookstore)
I love audio books on road trips. I download them to my iPod so I don't have to fiddle with discs while driving and risk scratching, dropping and losing them.
This is great road trip entertainment. The reader makes or breaks an audio book. Tim Curry makes this one great. In the way that Willie, Waylon, Johnny and Kris make a Louis L'Amour audio book that I absolutely love.
So this really isn't about the "Series" itself and its merits, or flaws, but about a great audio experience.

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Dear Reader,

You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope.

This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents.

It has been my solemn occupation to complete the history of the Baudelaire orphans, and at last I am finished. You likely have some other occupation, so if I were you I would drop this book at once, so the end does not finish you.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket