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This was bought as a Christmas gift for my grand daughter. She liked the cover art and the fact that this book had extras that the others did not. We both are very pleased with the purchase.


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The Reptile Room A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 2 Lemony Snicket 9780439227452 Books Reviews

Lemony Snicket's second tale of unfortunate woe picks up right where the first left off with Violet, Klaus, & Sunny narrowly escaping the clutches of the evil Count Olaf. The somewhat dim Dr Poe takes them to live with Dr Montgomery Montgomery; A man who's related tho their family by their "late father's cousin's wife's brother." Dr Montgomery specializes in herpetology, or the study of snakes. Readers of the first book will know that from this point only terrible things can happen and they do, including a death, and a surprise visitor.I found this book even more fun than the first now that the characters are familiar. I also love that he ends each book with a set-up for the next one. It makes you wish you had it immediately!
The Baudelaire orphans seem to have struck gold, as they are moved in with "Uncle Monty", a herpetologist. He is kind, generous, and the kids are thrilled to be engaged in his research and study. Unfortunately, evil follows the kids and once again they find themselves trying to protect themselves from evil and dim-witted adults.

I found this book harder to read, as it really went overboard with the vocabulary, idiom, and explanations. It also used several phrases repeatedly. More and more, I see these books as an engaging tool for teaching students new vocabulary, rather than books to read for pleasure.
I am a private tutor. Many students come to me as struggling and/or reluctant readers. These humorously unfortunate stories are great for motivating students to want to read. Lemony Snicket artfully introduces and explains new vocabulary words and then weaves them into the stories so that students see them used contextually several times. The series is particularly appealing to 4th and 5th grade girls.
By Angelo Ferrarini

A Series of Unfortunate Events tells the story of three really smart children that become orphans and live a really miserable childhood.
In this volume called "The Reptile Room" they stay at Monty's beautiful house after outsmarting count Olaf, right before he swears vengeance.

The story takes place at lousy lane, a disgusting road that smelled like fertilizer and at Monty's house which looked old and creepy on the outside, but was really cozy inside.
The special feature about Monty's house is this room called "the reptile room" that was filled with... reptiles. Reptiles of all kinds, from snakes to turtles and books all about them.
Monty is planing a trip to Peru, but his assistant quit right before it, so he has to hire someone else called Stephano to help him on the trip. As soon as the children see him, they realize that he is just count Olaf in a disguise. The next day Monty gets "bitten" by the Mamba Du Mal, one of the most venomous snakes in the world. Right away the children suspect that count Olaf is to blame for this when they see that the Mamba Du Mal is still in its cage.
From now things go from bad to worse.
Olaf is taking the children to the airport where they are going to catch the flight to Peru, but fortunately they crash into Mr. Poe (the banker that in charge of the orphan's money) on their way.
Now the children must figure out a way to make Mr. Poe believe that "Stephano" is really count Olaf.
Because of the crash they all have to go back to the house. At first Mr. Poe does not believe the children because of Olaf's costume. By the end of the book he believes the children, but count Olaf is able to escape.

I personally liked this book and I would recommend it to anyone that can read a book that doesn't end with 'And they lived happily ever after.'
Those poor Baudelaire orphans just can't catch a break. It seemed like things were finally going their way when Mister Poe placed them with their Uncle Monty, a world renowned herpatologist, and a very interesting and jolly man, if I may say so. But who should show up but that miserable, conniving, Count Olaf, disguised as Uncle Monty's new assistant. He hasn't given up on stealing the Baudelaire fortune yet.

The Reptile Room is the second audiobook in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, and just as in the first audiobook, this one is overflowing with woe and misery. It seems like kids would want to read something happier, but the series sold more than 50 million copies. Maybe reading about the unfortunate Baudelaire's makes kids realize that their own lives are not so bad after all.

LEMONY SNIPPET It is very unnerving to be proven wrong, particularly when you are really right and the person who is really wrong is the one who is proving you wrong and proving himself, wrongly, right. Right?

The Reptile Room was narrated by Tim Curry, as was the first audiobook in the series. Curry makes a good narrator, and I can see where he may be especially pleasing to younger listeners. His voices are very dramatic, and sound like something you might hear in a cartoon. Tim Curry's acting career began with the Broadway musical "Hair" in 1968. After that he played Doctor Frankenfurter n the musical "The Rocky Horror Picture Show". In 1981 he played the lead role in "Amadeus" and was nominated for his first Tony Award, but lost out to his co-star, Ian McKellen.

I'm beginning to enjoy Lemony Snicket's writing very much. I would recommend this series of audiobooks to anyone.

SPECIAL FEATURES Each of the audiobook recordings in A Series of Unfortunate Events includes a song which is loosely related to the story. The songs are written and performed by a band called "The Gothic Archies", of which Daniel Handler is a member. The Reptile Room contains a song titled Scream and Run Away, which explains what you should do if you meet Count Olaf.
This was bought as a Christmas gift for my grand daughter. She liked the cover art and the fact that this book had extras that the others did not. We both are very pleased with the purchase.