They share a room with one bed, their clothes are dumped in a cardboard box and they must spend half the day doing chore after chore after chore. Tall, thin, gaunt and distinctly suspicious, he does not treat the Baudelaire orphans well. Mr Poe, the asthmatic, bronchial executor of their parents' will tracks down a relative with whom they must live. The only things left to them are the clothes they stand up in. Not only have they lost their mother and father, but they have also lost all their possessions. Their beloved parents have recently perished in a fire at their home. Violet, Klaus and their baby sister, Sunny Baudelaire are three very unlucky, very sad children. It's a nice idea, but the eye to the main chance spoils it. The Bad Beginning is a dangerous step towards the franchising of the books your children read and Bookbag can't recommend that, or it. If ever a book was written as a money-spinner, then this is it. Summary: Neither the well-chosen vocabulary nor the wonderfully dry sense of humour in Lemony Snicket's Bad Beginning can make up for its naked and mercenary ambition.
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