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Title: So Lemony Snicket is a real person?
Review: The first question that popped into my head was "Is Lemony Snicket a real name or a pseudonym?" The second was "How would she sustain the misfortunes and make it a believable story?" The first one is yet unanswered but the second became clear when I read "The Bad Beginning." Without the series title and the warning blurb, this is just your run-of-the-mill children's book. It thrives on conflicts that are mandatory anyway in any fictional work, and pretends that this banality is what makes it unique. Finally, when things seem to have been resolved towards the end, the villain escapes. Did anybody say, "Scam"? It reads to me like the starting paragraph of the next book in the series. True enough, there have been at least ten books released.I would recommend you wait for the movie. This concept may be more successful in the cinematic form, and it would be a chance to see Jim Carrey monkey up again. As for the book, well, it's well-bound, but only literally.
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