Favorite Books Review #3: A Series of Unfortunate Events

[TheNapoleonnerd]

Is it a coinsidence that it sounded like you were doing a Daniel Handler (Lemony Snicket) impersonation? Something about the rythm of speech and pronounciation made me think of his voice.

[CheersProduction]

Once I flew on a 16 hour flight from New York to Hong Kong. I chose to instead read all these books before I got to relax or sleep. So I read from 9 pm reading through the night and finish the 13 book the next day at 6am. So I still had a lot longer to do stuff. But I love first class entertainment ( Which had the god awful movie )

[epicmickeymouse123]

I love this series i will defenitly read this series again when school starts up again so ill have something to read but the end of THE END is soo nice and sweet if you havn't finnished this series (i'm talking about my friend) then you really gotta cuz right when she stoped esme becomes cout olaf's girlfriend (EWWWW) and the carmelita becomes esme's "adopted daughter" this series is one of the most heat felt realistic dagerous just enough gory that it's hard to put down.Please read this series!

[witch26071]

Most amaxing books series ever!

[ExpertiseGamer]

Lemony Snicket is a genius, or whatever his name is, daniel handler. the series is perfect. It's a tad too absurd to be realistic but its realistic in the way of how the world is. The ugly reality. Its why i love it so much. I read the whole series when I was like 8, now I'm 14 and I'm reading it all over again.. all the little bits in it.. and how the orphans have to make evil decisions for the 'greater good'.. how they get more and more confused. its just perfectly real.

[squirrellypantyraid]

I read them again, after like 5 years? and I FINALLY UNDERSTOOD WHO BEATRICE WAS! it took some serious paying attention, but basically she was going out with lemony snicket, was engaged, and then left him (yes, this was the obvious part) and then married a very certain baudelaire! that's why lemony cares so much about theyre story... because he was in love with theyre mom... oh, it is such details that make this book series great

[AngelicMousey]

This is probably my favorite modern children's series. <3 Thank you for doing a review on it! Now I want to go back and read it from Beginning to End all over again. ;)

[kenman66]

The Bauldelaires star in a Alfred Hitchcock film really got me! XD

[morglyt3]

i haven't read these in so long. i read them as they came out, finishing them when i was around 12. so i really need to go back a reread them. they're staring at me from my bookshelf right now, in fact.

[OMGItsTarzan]

all this editing makes you sound robotic and annoying. Id like to punch you in the mouth.

Good review though. :)

[ScabbyJill]

He's supposed to be bringing out a new four-book series. I don't know if it fits into the same world of Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire, but have heard that its just as woeful and unfortunate as the previous series. Will you be reading them, Matt?

[PACMANnot]

Unfortunately I've never read the series, and am quiet sad that i have not, Heck! I've never even seen the movie for Christ's sake! I shall go and read them now!

[ChanceLayne]

@burntbanana7 very fun day

V.F.D

[GregMonster17]

This is weird lol but vocally you remind me of lemony snicket how strange

[ConnorFlockSpeevage]

I enjoyed the books, but found them similar to walking through a foot of mud. It's good fun, but bloody hard. By the 13th book I couldn't remember what had happened in the 1st book, and the author repeatedly refers back to previous stories, so I found myself getting confused alot. Still, if you have time to spare and these books lying around, you might as well read them :)

[pinkbunny62]

I've loved this series for years but I still haven't finished it!!!! I'm up to the twelfth one and I can't wait to find out how it ends (:

[781228XX]

They never released the last 6 books in Denmark, but I'm considering ordering them online. Too bad shipping of hardcovers is such a bitch.

[laxedskater009]

are the books as good as the movie?

[ChanceLayne]

@laxedskater009 the movie is shit compared to the books so to answer your question yes..and i also found it quite fun to read the first three books then go back and watch the movie.

[SgtSpiesCorner]

i fail lol

[SgtSpiesCorner]

V.F.D means volunteer fire fighters and i am wondering what the sugarbowl is

[newmewtonew]

@SgtSpiesCorner VFD=VFF?

[sillyaccent]

I love the Series! AMAZING!

[ScoobySnack29]

I loved this series, but my favorite series of books is Harry Potter. (favorite novel is IT)

[zeawesomeness]

Book Theif? i luved that book

[0AwesomeProductions0]

wow im in 6th grade and i started reading them about a month ago and im almost done withe book 8. its a really great series! Im just wondering what the Letters V.F.D. mean....

[bloodydragon]

Baudelaire series, Words which here means--a badass interesting series u cant turn ur head from xD i didnt read the last one dammit Dx

[epicmickeymouse123]

@bloodydragon the last one is sad at the end ( just to say count olaf dies)

[bloodydragon]

@epicmickeymouse123 i read it up on wiki a while ago..it seemed very depressing. but hes gone and those kids went through Hell. a lot of it.

[epicmickeymouse123]

@bloodydragon mostly because of him though and for some reason they feel like real people even though i know thier just caracters in a book

[SplinterSuperCell]

"The Bauldelaires go to the Reptile House.

The Bauldelaires go to school.

The Bauldelaires visit the Hospital.

The Bauldelaires go to the Circus.

The Bauldelaires visit the Mountains.

The Bauldelaires go Under the Sea.

The Bauldelaires star in an Alfred Hichcock Film.

The Bauldelaires visit a Hotel.

The Bauldelaires stare at man's feet.

XD I love how you came up with those titles.

[timenest]

you pronounced klaus wrong its pronounced like this clou-wse

[ghostwritten87]

Just been looking through some of your old vids and found this - ASoUE, hurrah! I finished my collection of these about a month ago. Lemony Snicket is a fantastic creation, and these are definitely some of my favourite books of all time. Amazing language, and very hilarious. The Ersatz Elevator is strangely my favourite.

[AdamSwainston0]

nice book review :)

my favourite series of books, and you summed them up perfectly!!

[doopt5]

i am on the fith book

[poppyseed223]

I love the series,I'm on the tenth book that I've nearly finished and these are just amazing.You views were right,the first 6 books were tiresome but thses are getting wexcellent now.Bravo!

[ReviewForReel]

I really liked these books when I was yonger . But I wish that Lemoney Snikcets went into more detail. In fact it could have cared it's own book series. Plus we were never given a conclusion to the story

[DarkHawk28]

Sometimes she seems to talk in anagrams and abbreviations

[DarkHawk28]

These books are awesome. The thing I like most about these books is the dark and often depressing nature of the story, it gives me chills.

[zoee1158]

These are my absolute favourite books.

I hate reading but when i watched the movie at a friends house, it inspired me to read the books. I think watching the movie before i read the books was great because when things happened in the story i could picture them in my head which was great.

I really liked your review apart from the bit when you prnouced Klaus wrong!

Oh well, it doesnt reallly matter.

[leannerd]

I absolutely adore these books. I'm currently reading The Grim Grotto and am a little over halfway through. I'm hoping to finish it this week.

Anyway, I really wanted to tell you that I love your reviews and between you and IAmTheBookie, I've decided to start my own book reviews. These will be in type, not on camera, though, as I am much more articulate in writing. So, thanks for being such an awesome reviewer! :D

[skymax9090]

awesome review..they are the best books ive read but Klaus is pronounced Kl-au-s not klaws :)

[bandgeek8408]

Yeah, I knew she said "Denada" at one point, and "de nada" in Spanish means "It's nothing." Unfortunately, my knowledge of other languages it too limited to catch the others.

[Realmer06]

Um . . . did I give you *permission* to go into my room and film my bookcases?

Your analysis is interesting to me because what I remember about the series (granted, I read it two and a half ish years ago and it all starts to run together) is that along about books 8, 9, and 10, I got really tired with the story and kind of felt that he was just writing those books to make it to a 13 book series. Slippery Slope on, I think, it picked up for me. But maybe now I'll have to go back and reread . . .

[melodychef]

That was a concise review. You made me want to go out and read the books, especially the last books.

[bandgeek8408]

It was only concise after a loooot of editing . . . but thank you. Glad I was able to instill curiosity in you. =)

[kaitlynwithakay]

I love these books so much. Great review!

Did you notice that the last illustration in every book has a hidden clue about the next book? It's pretty cool.

[bandgeek8408]

I did! =) Actually, I had mentioned that in the review, but I had to edit it out for time. (Among many other things.)

It was really fun going back and finding all those hidden things I'd missed before . . . especially Sunny's supposed gibberish in the last few books.

[kaitlynwithakay]

Yes!! I love the development of Sunny's baby talk as she gets older. Sometimes her words are really the phonetic spelling of a bigger word, in which case she's actually being very insightful.

Did that make any sense? It makes sense to me. Haha.

[IAmTheBookie]

I love those books so much. Such a good break down! Thanks for your insight, Matt.

[bandgeek8408]

You're welcome! =) It was really hard to get this one down to five minutes . . . there was so much stuff to talk about.

[IAmTheBookie]

Well, yeah! It's 13 books!

[crimsong19]

I loved the Series of Unfortunate Events! I think that I finished, or mostly finished, the series.