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Type of bind: Hardcover
EAN num: 9780064410120
ISBN number: 0064410129
Label: HarperCollins
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 286
Printing Date: 2002-10
Publishing house: HarperCollins
Age index: Ages 9-12
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Sale Popularity Level: 19450
Studio: HarperCollins
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Everybody loves a carnival! Who can fail to delight in the colourful people, the unworldly spectacle, the fabulous freaks?
A carnival is a place for good family fun – as long as one has a family, that is. For the Baudelaire orphans, their time at the carnival turns out to be yet another episode in a now unbearable series of unfortunate events. In fact, in this appalling ninth instalment in Lemony Snicket's serial, the siblings must confront a terrible lie, a caravan, and Chabo the wolf baby. With millions of readers worldwide, and the Baudelaire's fate turning from unpleasant to unseemly, it is clear that Lemony Snicket has taken nearly all the fun out of children's books.
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After escaping the burning hospital the Baudelaire seek refuge in a trunk of the notorious villain Count Olaf. Count Olaf has come to a rundown carnival to see a mysterious Fortuneteller known as Madam Lulu. In an effort to escape the clutches of count Olaf the Baudelaire use the wide assortment of various items inside Count Olaf's trunk. The Baudelaire disguise themselves as a two headed freak and chabo the wolf baby. The children are worried as the carnival decides to create an attraction where one freak will plunge into the lion pit to increase the carnivals publicity. In store for you in this invigorating, suspense building, and partly grousum story is a hunchback, an ambidextrous person, and a contortionist. Will the Baudelaire survive? Can they evade Count Olaf? Is Madam Lulu all that she appears? All these questions and more will be reviled in "The Carnivorous Carnival"
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Wow, the big bright lights of a carnival! Well, why not? The mystery leads the Baudelaire orphans to a carnival where there awaits a mysterious fortune teller that may provide clues. However, during that time we have some rather annoying new characters and a plot that seems mostly filler (save the bits of information we get).
Still, it's a quirky, hilarious read full of the usual charm, so it's worth it.
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We enjoyed it like the rest of the ones in the series. Love these books.
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The Carnivorous Carnival is the 9th installment in the Baudelaire orphans' Series of Unfortunate Events. The orphans have escaped the burning hospital from Book 8 by climbing in the trunk of Count Olaf's car and sneaking away with him and his evil henchmen. They arrive at a carnival isolated in the barren hinterlands and immediately realize that they must disguise themselves so that Olaf and his friends will not recognize them. They get jobs as carnival freaks and try to find a way to escape and continue to look for the Snicket file and the possibility that one of their parents might still be alive.
This book is another fun installment in the series, but unfortunately, for some time the series has been dragging. It is possible that for children each book is entertaining as a stand alone book, but for me, I find that the repetitive formula of each is now tiresome and I am ready for it to conclude. I continue to be impressed by the writing style and the clever way the author uses language to instruct and entertain. Overall the series is fantastic, but the pace is frustratingly slow at this point. Hopefully the pace will accelerate as the ending draws near.
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Dear Mr. Snicket,
We have found out about you telling our story, and we wanted to communicate with you. Luckily for us, this reviewer visited the carnival in which we were performing in an unusual capacity (as f-r-e-a-k-s) and agreed to make this message available to you. At very first we were enraged, since we realized that you were interjecting funny comments in our story, which seemed to derive from really bad taste. But then we understood, if you did not do that, nobody would want to read about our miserable experiences.
As you already know, we barely escaped from the hospital. "Slash!", that was a comment from Sunny, who intends to say that Olaf and his cronies were trying to chop off Violet's head and they almost succeeded. We sneaked into the trunk Count Olaf's car and ended up in this carnival, trying to figure out the secret of V.F.D. If you have any information, please, please, please, help us out. "Chersssh", that was Sunny again, saying that we found out that one of our beloved parents may be alive. If you have any news, we would appreciate you providing this information to us.
We have found a few compassionate people in the carnival, but the lions arrived a short time ago, and we are getting scared. If you have any way to contact Mr. Poe, tell him to come rescue us. He seems to have missed our telegram. We are looking forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire
PS from the reviewer: Mr. Snicket, I realize that you have found out about the events that unfolded at the carnival and already wrote a book about it. I applaud your accuracy in telling the tale and I thoroughly enjoyed your use of humour at such a grim time. I hope you can help these children and I hope I get to find out soon about what happened to them. I have a lot of questions and the suspense is killing me. I will now let you get back to your writing, which I hope many people get to read. Best regards.
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