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Before the Baudelaires became orphans, before he encountered A Series of Unfortunate Events, even before the invention of Netflix, Lemony Snicket was a boy discovering the mysteries of the world.
In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read. This is the first volume.
- Sales Rank: #1886682 in Books
- Published on: 2014-06-17
- Released on: 2014-06-17
- Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 4
- Dimensions: 5.75" h x .75" w x 5.25" l, .25 pounds
- Running time: 240 minutes
- Binding: Audio CD
From School Library Journal
Gr 4-7-In this "autobiographical" mystery, a teenaged Lemony Snicket recounts his early experiences as an apprentice to S. Theodora Markson, a pretentious woman who is not remotely as intelligent as she pretends. The two travel to the formerly seaside (but now not) town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea to investigate the theft of, what they are told, is a priceless heirloom. The identity of the culprit is obvious. Or is it? There's much more to this case than meets the eye. To uncover what's really going on, the inquisitive Snicket must figure out who he can trust and which questions to ask before it's too late. This fast-paced whodunit is likely to leave readers with questions of their own. Hopefully, they're the right questions-which, hopefully, will be answered in upcoming sequels. Written in Snicket's gloomy, yet undeniably charming, signature style and populated with wonderfully quirky characters, this enjoyable start of a new series will thrill fans of the author's earlier works and have even reluctant readers turning pages with the fervor of seasoned bookworms. A must-have.-Alissa J. Bach, Oxford Public Library, MIα(c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
Oh, Lemony Snicket. How you confound us. For instance, in this book, the first of the All the Wrong Questions series, you give us so many unmoored happenings that readers may be inclined to believe they’ve landed in the middle of the second book. True, we will learn you’re an almost-13-year-old boy and that you escape your parents (or are they your parents?!) in a tea room to meet the woman with whom you’ll apprentice. And then you and S. Theodora Markson (what does the S stand for?) make your way to a sea town, now devoid of the ink for which it’s famous, and deserted by its residents, to find a statue rather like the Maltese Falcon, only it’s the Bombinating Beast. Someone is waiting for you back home, but who? What’s this secret program you seem to be a part of? Who cares about the Bombinating Beast? (You may take that comment any way you wish.) But just as when you were with those charming Baudelaire children, the adventures roll and one can only speculate what’s around the corner. Not that it will do any good. Kudos to Seth for the marvelous woodcut art. The pictures seem to hold clues. Or do they? HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Please, it’s Lemony Snicket. Enough said. Grades 4-7. --Ilene Cooper
Review
* "[With] gothic wackiness, linguistic play and literary allusions....Fans of the Series of Unfortunate Events will be in heaven picking out tidbit references to the tridecalogy, but readers who've yet to delve into that well of sadness will have no problem enjoying this weird and witty yarn."―Kirkus Reviews, starred review
* "Full of Snicket's trademark droll humor and maddeningly open-ended, this will have readers clamoring for volume two."―Publishers Weekly, starred review
* "Full of Snicket's characteristic wit and word play . . . this book belongs in all collections."
―VOYA, starred review
"Please, it's Lemony Snicket. Enough said."―Booklist
"A Pink Panther-esque page turner that marks the return of eccentric narrator Lemony Snicket....The black, gray and blue illustrations by celebrated cartoonist Seth only add to the throwback gumshoe vibe of this outrageous, long-overdue, middle-grade follow-up series from a truly beloved narrator."―Los Angeles Times
"Demands to be read twice: once for the laughs and the second time for the clues....Equal parts wit and absurdity."―The Boston Globe
"The sort of goodie savored by brainy kids who love wordplay, puzzles and plots that zing from point A to B by way of the whole alphabet."―The Washington Post
Most helpful customer reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Before the Baudelaires, there was Snicket…
By Robert DeFrank
Before the Baudelaires, there was Snicket…
I only just heard that a four-book prequel to the adventures and misadventures of A Series of Unfortunate Events was in the works. I’d thought to listen to the audiobook on my commute, believing it would take up a couple of days. I ended up devouring the book by day’s end and the succeeding volumes are on order from my library.
Lemony Snicket, melancholy chronicler of the Baudelaires’ story, now begins his own tale, and it’s everything you can expect from a surreal, steampunk and gothic fantasy with a nest of puzzles fit for a modern-day Encyclopedia Brown. Part comedy, part tragedy, part noir, part mystery, all Snicket.
The story itself is simple, at least on the surface: Lemony Snicket, twelve years old and going on thirteen, has at last graduated from VFD’s training in investigation, disguise and all around spycraft. He’s assigned to his mentor and chaperone: S. Theodora Markson, whose confidence in herself is matched only by her utter incompetence.
Snicket and Markson take their first case, in the fading and near-deserted ink-producing town of Stained by the Sea they are tasked with finding a stolen item of unexplained value, but every question answered opens up a host of new difficulties in a tangled plot made up of both intricate schemes and rank bumbling.
Because unfortunately, for all Snicket’s skill and training, he asks the wrong questions and only realizes in hindsight what he should have done.
He’s learning, and he has his new friends and allies in the search for truth, but only time will tell if it will be enough.
By the end I was sure of only two things: I need to read on, and I’ll need to read again.
The author is quite simply a genius in the use of first-person narration. From the very first page readers are treated to hints and foreshadowing that we know will come up later in unexpected ways, and a number of subtle clues that are only apparent upon re-reading. Just as absorbing are the clever and amusing segues of narration, seemingly unrelated to the main story, but that are guaranteed to impact the plot.
As for revolting and menacing villains, you might ask yourself: how could he match the distilled wickedness and treachery of Count Olaf?
He does.
Believe me, he does.
Read it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Magical Realism Meets "The Maltese Falcon", for Kids
By Pop Bop
I like Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler. Actually, I like and admire him. He is and has been willing to set off in his own direction, at his own speed, for his own purposes without apparent regard for the conventions of children's lit or the lack of precedent for his approach. That said, sometimes his books, especially the later "Series of Unfortunate Events" books, can be sour and brittle or just empty and clever for the sake of cleverness. (Although, you can also say that about authors like Roald Dahl and even Shel Silverstein if you want to get into an argument.)
In this series Snicket has more to work with and has a grander design. What you end up reading is a sort of kid noir magical realism. You have a deadpan, world weary, gimlet eyed 13 year old narrator with a dark sense of humor and a seen-it-all vibe. But, this isn't your typical middle or high school noir in which each school kid plays a younger version of an established noir type, (cheerleader as femme fatale, jock as a goon, isolated nerdy guy as criminal mastermind, and so on). Rather, Snicket sets his deadpan just-the-facts-ma'am hero in an odd, illogical and twisted world filled with fantastical features. It's as though he set a kid's production of "Dragnet" in Oz, (thankfully, without the magic or the flying monkeys).
The effect is a restrained yet surreal tale in which the prosaic and exceptional swirl around to create an unstable world. Sometimes this can be upsetting to adult readers, who expect a cute fun story from "Lemony Snicket". But while they are surprised by the unsettled and contrary Snicket world, kids take to it. Maybe it's because kid readers don't have settled expectations or aren't committed to conventional approaches and so respond well to the freedom of a Snicket book.
These books remind me a lot of Daniel Pinkwater's playfully mystical books, (say, The Neddiad: How Neddie Took the Train, Went to Hollywood, and SavedCivilization or Adventures of a Cat-Whiskered Girl), but where Pinkwater is lively and upbeat the Snicket books all have a strong undercurrent of melancholy. That's potent stuff for a younger reader, but there's nothing wrong with a challenge.
So, all of this is the long way around to saying that this book is sort of a mystery, and possibly a fantasy/adventure, and maybe a coming of age story, and conceivably just a big goof on all of us - but whatever it is it seems to me it would be great fun and a bit mind expanding for a confident and adventurous middle level reader.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Just suddenly ends without warning, closure, or answers
By Pikay
I am a HUGE Lemony Snicket fan in general, and the writing in this book is classic Snicket ... such a joy to blanket myself in that wonderful "voice" again! I can't believe I'm writing a less than stellar review of a work by one of my favorite authors, but maybe I can help to set someone else's expectations more realistically ...
My complaint has nothing to do with the writing, which is wonderful. My husband and I added this to the stack of books that we read to each other in the car, and we just finished it last week. We both enjoyed the ride, but we both felt at the end as if the end of the book was simply ... missing. Nothing was resolved. Nothing was really answered. Please don't misunderstand: It's not that the ending is a cliffhanger. It feels more as if someone has just taken a larger story (of undetermined length), cut the first half (or third, or who knows?) out at random, and packaged it to sell as a complete book without considering whether or not it works as one.
So we're a bit disappointed. I don't mind "serial" stories, but I do like to have at least one story "sub-arc" completed in a novel, even if other elements span multiple books.
Consequently, we're feeling a bit gunshy about this series so far ... we'll probably wait to read reviews of the next book to see if early readers have the same kind of experience with that one before we buy it. Again, don't get me wrong, the writing here is marvelous ... and if you're pretty confident you'll enjoy climbing on at Point A and getting carried along without particularly caring whether you ever arrive at Point B, then there's no reason not to board this train. If, on the other hand, you'd like your destination to BE there when the ride ends, you might want to wait for the series to mature a bit first.
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