THE BOOK



THE PLOT SUMMARY

The series follows the adventures of three siblings, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, after their parents were killed in a fire at the family mansion.
Each of the three siblings has a distinctive skill that often helps them during their adventures. Violet is always inventing new things to help them, Klaus is always finding out new information by reading books, and Sunny has extremely sharp and strong teeth that can bite almost anything in half.
In later books, Sunny learns how to cook, as she begins to grow to the normal size for her teeth so cooking becomes her primary skill. Sunny originally spoke in single word utterances which are often a variety of incomplete sentences, and some short word sentences as well. Their meaning is either disguised by being spelled phonetically (e.g. 'surchmi' in The Slippery Slope), backwards (e.g. 'edasurc' [crusade] in The Carnivorous Carnival) through cultural references (Sunny says: 'Matahari', followed by a definition of 'If I stay, I can spy on them and find out.'), or being written in other languages (e.g. Shalom or Sayonara), but eventually she begins to speak more in complete English sentences, her first possibly being "I'm not a baby" in The Slippery Slope, or "Like me" in The Vile Village.

Citing objections to the suggested incest (referring to Olaf's attempt to marry his distant niece Violet in The Bad Beginning, although his motivation was not sexual in nature, but rather an attempt to gain her inheritance) and use of the word "damn" in The Reptile Room. The books were banned in Decatur, Georgia.

Handler later commented that the word's use was "precipitated by a long discussion of how one should never say this word, since only a villain would do so vile a thing! This is exactly the lily-liveredness of children's books that I can't stand."

The series has been criticised for formulaic and repetitive storytelling.

The series includes thirteen main books as follows:

• The Bad Beginning (1999)
• The Reptile Room (1999)
• The Wide Window (2000)
• The Miserable Mill (2000)
• The Austere Academy (2000)
• The Ersatz Elevator (2001)
• The Vile Village (2001)
• The Hostile Hospital (2001)
• The Carnivorous Carnival (2002)
• The Slippery Slope (2003)
• The Grim Grotto (2004)
• The End (2006)
  
  

(Info taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events

THE FILM




I shall not give away any of the juicy bits. All I have to say is, the movie did (knd of) inspire me to be more adventurous and wild with my thinking, espeically when it comes to dealing with sticky situations. Yeah. It's very much suitable for those Family-to-the-Movies kind of thing.
My favourite character would be the freaking cute baby, Sunny, of course!! Who wouldn't aww about her in the movie (except for certain "I don't find her cute so I'm ultra righteous or something" people)? :DDD

THE BOOK



THE PLOT SUMMARY

The series follows the adventures of three siblings, Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, after their parents were killed in a fire at the family mansion.
Each of the three siblings has a distinctive skill that often helps them during their adventures. Violet is always inventing new things to help them, Klaus is always finding out new information by reading books, and Sunny has extremely sharp and strong teeth that can bite almost anything in half.
In later books, Sunny learns how to cook, as she begins to grow to the normal size for her teeth so cooking becomes her primary skill. Sunny originally spoke in single word utterances which are often a variety of incomplete sentences, and some short word sentences as well. Their meaning is either disguised by being spelled phonetically (e.g. 'surchmi' in The Slippery Slope), backwards (e.g. 'edasurc' [crusade] in The Carnivorous Carnival) through cultural references (Sunny says: 'Matahari', followed by a definition of 'If I stay, I can spy on them and find out.'), or being written in other languages (e.g. Shalom or Sayonara), but eventually she begins to speak more in complete English sentences, her first possibly being "I'm not a baby" in The Slippery Slope, or "Like me" in The Vile Village.

Citing objections to the suggested incest (referring to Olaf's attempt to marry his distant niece Violet in The Bad Beginning, although his motivation was not sexual in nature, but rather an attempt to gain her inheritance) and use of the word "damn" in The Reptile Room. The books were banned in Decatur, Georgia.

Handler later commented that the word's use was "precipitated by a long discussion of how one should never say this word, since only a villain would do so vile a thing! This is exactly the lily-liveredness of children's books that I can't stand."

The series has been criticised for formulaic and repetitive storytelling.

The series includes thirteen main books as follows:

• The Bad Beginning (1999)
• The Reptile Room (1999)
• The Wide Window (2000)
• The Miserable Mill (2000)
• The Austere Academy (2000)
• The Ersatz Elevator (2001)
• The Vile Village (2001)
• The Hostile Hospital (2001)
• The Carnivorous Carnival (2002)
• The Slippery Slope (2003)
• The Grim Grotto (2004)
• The End (2006)
  
  

(Info taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Series_of_Unfortunate_Events

THE FILM




I shall not give away any of the juicy bits. All I have to say is, the movie did (knd of) inspire me to be more adventurous and wild with my thinking, espeically when it comes to dealing with sticky situations. Yeah. It's very much suitable for those Family-to-the-Movies kind of thing.
My favourite character would be the freaking cute baby, Sunny, of course!! Who wouldn't aww about her in the movie (except for certain "I don't find her cute so I'm ultra righteous or something" people)? :DDD