Comments on: A Series of Unfortunate Events No. 1: The Bad Beginning

By: Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing with Fire

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:41:24 +0000

[...] version of Jim Butcher’s DRESDEN FILES with the droll, dry humor of Lemony Snicket’s A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, with a more mannered British bent. Because it’s aimed at kids, it’s more interested in [...]

By: Bookgasm: Reading Material to Get Excited About » Blog Archive » The Name of This Book Is Secret

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:11:48 +0000

[...] a wry narrator whose interruptions, warnings and footnoted asides, SECRET comes off like a Lemony Snicket-y exercise in kids-in-peril fiction. It’s just oddball enough to succeed, even if the story [...]

By: Nymeth

Nymeth — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:07:41 +0000

For some reason, I only read the first book in this series. I loved it, so it’s about time I read the others. Your review has definitely encouraged me.