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A review by emmareadstoomuch
The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket
5.0
It’s time to resign myself to the fact that I will never love anything like I love this series.
These books made me INTO WHO I AM. (Which explains why I am such a negative and unpleasant person.)
Other series may contain things I love, but those series will never be why I love those things.
A Series of Unfortunate Events can be thanked for my love of: secrecy, darkness, snarky humor, silliness, puns, literary humor, orphans, illustrations, crime, libraries, mnemonic devices, chewing gum, mystery, secret societies, battles between good and evil, grammar, journeys, riddles, villainy, moral enigmas, problem-solving, disguise, and murder.
This installment in particular contains most of the above list, as well as submarines, creative cooking, deathly mushrooms, large pasta used as a weapon, betrayal, hidden identities revealed, and underwater monsters shaped like question marks.
Maybe it is not a perfect book, but would an imperfect book contain words as perfect as these?:
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
I think not.
Bottom line: I would never want to live inside this book, but at the same time, I would very much like to live inside this book.
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the time i took before picking up this book was a Very Foolish Delay.
at the same time...I NEVER WANT TO FINISH THIS REREAD.
review to come / 5 stars
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suddenly unable to remember why i ever read anything other than this series
These books made me INTO WHO I AM. (Which explains why I am such a negative and unpleasant person.)
Other series may contain things I love, but those series will never be why I love those things.
A Series of Unfortunate Events can be thanked for my love of: secrecy, darkness, snarky humor, silliness, puns, literary humor, orphans, illustrations, crime, libraries, mnemonic devices, chewing gum, mystery, secret societies, battles between good and evil, grammar, journeys, riddles, villainy, moral enigmas, problem-solving, disguise, and murder.
This installment in particular contains most of the above list, as well as submarines, creative cooking, deathly mushrooms, large pasta used as a weapon, betrayal, hidden identities revealed, and underwater monsters shaped like question marks.
Maybe it is not a perfect book, but would an imperfect book contain words as perfect as these?:
“People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.”
I think not.
Bottom line: I would never want to live inside this book, but at the same time, I would very much like to live inside this book.
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the time i took before picking up this book was a Very Foolish Delay.
at the same time...I NEVER WANT TO FINISH THIS REREAD.
review to come / 5 stars
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suddenly unable to remember why i ever read anything other than this series