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Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
- All the wrong questions - question 1
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Add a SummaryTo be a success in Snicket’s line of work it’s important to know how to ask the right questions. And this is a problem since Snicket finds it difficult doing precisely that. He was supposed to meet his contact in the city. Instead, he finds himself whisked away to the country to a dying town called Stain’d-by-the-Sea. Once a bustling harbor, the town’s water was removed leaving behind a creepy seaweed forest and an ink business that won’t be around much longer. With his incompetent mentor S. Theodora Markson he’s there to solve the mystery of a stolen statue. Never mind that the statue wasn’t stolen, its owners don’t care who has it, and their client isn’t even a real person. When Snicket finds a girl looking for her father and learns the name of the insidious Hangfire things start to get interesting, not to mention dangerous. Can multiple mysteries be solved even if you keep following the wrong paths? Snicket’s about to find out.
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"I'm reminded of a book my father used to read me," she said. "A bunch of elves and things get into a huge war over a piece of jewelry that everybody wants but nobody can wear." "I never liked that kind of book," I replied. "There's always a wizard who's very powerful but not very helpful."
She stood and ran quickly up the spiral staircase, her shoes making the sort of racket that might give you mother a headache, if you have that sort of mother.
I stopped looking at her typewriter and looked at her eyes. Their color was pretty interesting, too—a dark gray, like they’d once been black but somebody had washed them or perhaps had made her cry for a long time.
He was younger than I think of librarians as being, younger than the father of anyone I knew, and he had the hairstyle one gets if one is attacked by a scissors-carrying maniac and lives to tell the tale.
"Adults never tell children anything." "Children never tell adults anything either," I said. "The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands."
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.
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Add a CommentI have to admit that Snicket's desire to be vague and mysterious made this book somewhat inaccessible at first, as I didn't understand what was going on or have a helpful way of relating to the character, and the main thing keeping me reading was past experience with the author. I did finally get caught up in the plot and enjoyed the droll voice of the narrator, but never fully identified with him or his concerns (which remained too veiled in mystery to the end). It's a decent mystery in which the youth are much more capable and appealing than the absurd and incompetent adults, which should win it bonus points with young readers. Of course, since it's Snicket, the best thing about the book is his skewed wisdom and descriptions throughout the telling of the tale. See the "Quotes" tab for a few favorites.
boys would prop love this book. it wanders ALLLLLLL over the place. but basically the boy trys to figure out who wants to steal a statue.
i absolutely love lemony snicket!i loved a series of unfortunate events(even though it was intensely sad)so i know im goin to luv this one!
I loved this book. It was so clever! I love Lemony Snicket because he always has a twist at the end. 5/5, MUST READ!!!!!!
"This first entry in a new series by the creator of the Series of Unfortunate Events books recounts the author's experiences as a young teenager in a washed-up town, where his apprenticeship with a shadowy organization is complicated by his tendency to ask "all the wrong questions" (which is also the name of the series). We would try to explain what happens in this book, dear readers, but the "what" is - as fans of earlier Lemony Snicket books would agree - far less important than the "how." And in this case, the "how" is very much like a stylishly jaded, danger-ridden noir mystery, and it's also full of the tongue-in-cheek humour that Snicket fans know and love." Kids' Books December 2012 Newsletter http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=584592
I have no idea if kids will gravitate towards it, but if you’ve a hankering to recommend a beautifully written if uncommon mystery to kids that ask for that sort of thing (and they do, man, they do) hand this over. Worse case scenario, they don’t like it. Best case scenario it blows their little minds. Blew mine anyway. Good stuff.