The Austere Academy
2000 • 221 pages
Ratings100
Average rating3.8
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Ratings100
Average rating3.8
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
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13 primary books18 released booksA Series of Unfortunate Events is a 18-book series with 13 primary works first released in 1999 with contributions by Lemony Snicket.
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Well, actually, this deserves a 3.5 stars. I usually don't read non-fiction but I wanted to change my reading and I decided to read this one. I won't talk about the narrative or the style of writing because this was very easy to read and also extremely realistic. The stories of all those children who live in India have made me realize how lucky I am and my pains and sufferings are nothing compared with they problems. If you read this book and don't feel anything, maybe it's because you have never been in those children's shoes.
Why I put a lower rate? Because I didn't like that kind of ‘advertising' about the GFA. I know that the main purpose of this book is call to others to help this children but in sometimes, I felt like I was reading a newspaper.
By other side, I was touched by the stories and I thank God for the Bridge of hope centers, because they're the hands who help those people.
Another good installment in this series, one of my favourites so far. The introduction of characters I remembered vaguely from later in the series was a great touch.
Very much looking forward to the conclusion of this series.
Lemony Snicket can do no wrong. As depressing and gloomy as the story lines may be, Snicket has an entertaining and dry (humor) style that makes for an interesting read. I read most of the books in this series in middle school and still enjoy them as a 23-year-old graduate student. In this book, in particular, I love the elements of absurdity incorporated into the Baudelaire's “prism of experience” at the boarding school. Sunny, a baby, is forced to serve as secretary to the vice-principal. The three children are provided with abysmal housing in the form of the orphan shack, infested with tan fungus and toe-biting crabs. Onto #6!
De Baudelaires worden naar een kostschool gestuurd, de Prufrock Preparatory School. Ze ontmoeten er een gemeen kind, Carmelia Spats, Vice Principal Nero is ook een akelig mens maar hij belooft Count Olaf ver weg te houden. En dan komt er een nieuwe turnleraar, Coach Genghis, die ze meteen herkennen als Graaf Olaf maar niemand anders. Ze hebben ook vrienden gemaakt, de Quagmire-drieling (ouders en 1/3 van de drieling ook overleden in een brand). Shenanigans, Coach Genghis die de Baudelaires de hele nacht laat rondjes lopen en Nero die Sunny bureauwerk laat doen, de Quagmires die zich vermommen als Klaus en Violet, uiteindelijk valt Olaf door de mand, maar hij ontsnapt met de Quagmires.
Net voor ze verdwijnen, roept Duncan Quagmire dat de Baudelaires in zijn notities moeten kijken, en iets van V.F.D. Maar Olaf steelt de notitites en de kinderen moeten op zoek naar een nieuwe voogd.
