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    A Series of Unfortunate Events #5: The Austere Academy

    By Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist and Michael Kupperman

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    NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

    As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School, they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die."

    This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061757174
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    Lemony Snicket

    Lemony Snicket had an unusual education, which may or may not explain his ability to evade capture. He is the author of the 13 volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, several picture books including The Dark, and the books collectively titled All The Wrong Questions.

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    • 5/5
      It's been a long time since I've read this series, so writing a review so many years past is perhaps a bit unfair, but I did absolutely love reading this books when they came out. The dark sense of humor appealed to me, as did the motley cast of characters.
    • 4/5
      One of my favorites in the series so far along with The Wide Window, this book worked extremely well. Of course it was still ridiculous and every adult in the book was infuriating, but that's the point. The Quagmire triplets were a charming addition to the cast, and Carmelita Spats was given far to little attention.The story is picking up a more serial feel, adding to the main story arc rather than setting up individual mysteries in each installment. This speeds up the pace from book to book, if that makes any sense. I dunno, it's past my bedtime.
    • 4/5
      This is one of my favorite books in the this series. It has alot of adventure in it and who are always guessing what is going to happen next. I recommend this book to children who like adventure and who have read the other books.
    • 5/5
      This book was great. I think it is great for all ages. The stories are different, but interesting.
    • 5/5
      This is the fifth book in its series, and what a great series that is. I find myself immediately immersed in the story whenever I have a Lemony Snicket book in my hands. This time, the orphans attend Prufrock Preparatory School, a strict academy with an evil Vice Principal. The students are made to run endless laps of a luminous circle, listen to deafening violin music, and live in a shack with fungus dripping from the roof. However, they also meet some unexpected friends who help them along the way. These friends are in fact the Quagmires. A great story that was definitely worth picking up and giving a shot.
    • 4/5
      As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home--Prufrock Preparatory School--they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori, or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting, and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story.
    • 5/5
      Another great book in this series. I really adore Isadora and Duncan so I hope they have a happy ending, but knowing this series I'm sure they don't. Solid plot line, solid characters. I would recommend this book. 5 out of 5 stars.
    • 3/5
      The misadventures of the Baudelaires continue. Here, they are shipped off to boarding school; where they are forced to live in a shack infested by crabs and fungus.
      However, they make friends with the two Quagmire Triplets (one of them died in a fire), and things look like they might not be quite so despairing after all, even if the school is boring and pointless...
      But then, Count Olaf shows up the the guise of a gym teacher...

      One of the funniest entries into this series so far.

    • 4/5
      I liked the introduction of some new allies for the Baudelaire children in this story. The author does a great job of finding ways to keep this series coherent without being too repetitive. This book also has more of a cliffhanger ending than the others, and just keeps me wanting to read more. The wordplay is witty and excellent as always, with the doom and gloom of Latin mottoes thrown in for fun.
    • 4/5
      The addition of the triplets was wonderful. It was a nice vacation from some of the tedium of the series. It's always nice what nice things happen.
    • 5/5
      I love Lemony Snicket. I like it that this book leaves you with a desire for more, but I will take a break from the series for a while. Getting ready for the Summer Reads !!!!
    • 5/5
      This is a great book and it really captured my mind and took me in and I like how a couple of main charachters are bad.
    • 3/5
      The over the top suffering of the Baudelaires continues.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this installment in the series because Mr. Snicket made a change from the formula of the first four years by introducing real friends for the Baudelaire children and hinting at a conspiracy that might make sense of their tragic history. I will admit, though, that the formula begun in the first book and carried out so exactingly in each subsequent book has started to wear thin.
    • 4/5
      The fifth book in this entertaining series follows the same formula as the first four books, but near the end we learn we will get a cliffhanger and the story spins into a mysterious new direction. Good stuff.
    • 4/5
      audio book is a great vacation "read" for the whole family
    • 4/5
      One of my favorites; Snicket has an exceptional grasp on human behavior, particularly odd human behavior, and exaggerates it in a delightful, tongue-in-cheek sort of way that is sure to make you chuckle a bit and spit up most of your Pepsi. That being said, this book reminded me a lot of my high school.
    • 3/5
      After having read the first five books of this series one after the other, I find I’m rather depressed. It was nice for the orphans to have made some friends, however. Snicket’s defining words as they relate to his story instead of the dictionary definitions has become more egregious. Inevitable does not, ever, mean “a lifetime of horror and woe.” As we all know, the definition of inevitable is “unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped,” which would have worked perfectly well in Snicket’s narrative.
    • 3/5
      Summary: The Baudelairs are at a truly Austere Academy, with a strange carving over the doorway, an extremely mean new girl, and an exctremely strange and mean gym teacher. but along the way they meet the Quagnire triplets, just like them but somehow THEIR trio is down to a douo. Review: It was good but slightly confusing, revealing tons of new info along the way.
    • 4/5
      Violet, Klaus and Sunny are three Baudelaire's who are really unfortunate. It starts how their parents are killed in a fire, and they need to find a place to stay. Mr. Poe takes them to this school where they are put in the orphan's shack and are treated badly. They need to wake up every morning and eat breakfast, go to school, eat lunch, dinner and go to concerts. When they meet their new gym teacher, they know exacly who it is. It is Count Oalf, a very bad person who wants to take the Baudelaire's forture. The Baudelaire's in big trouble until their friends help them, and at the end they lose their friends, but get rid of Count Oalf. I like these books even though it is about kids who are really unfourtunate. I like to read how they will get rid of Count Oalf, and if anything good would happen to them. I though it was sad though that they couldn't save their friends in time and how they were like stuck together. THey were really helping each other with their problems. They would share their cups and utensils when they had to eat. One person who was mean was thins girl and all the other kids who would make fun of the Baudelaire's becasue they had to stay in the shack. I think it would have been pretty annoying to here Vice Prinsipal Nero copy everything you say. I think you should start reading this series if you don't know what to read next!
    • 3/5
      There's something very appealing about these books, once you get into the tone. In this episode, the hapless Baudelaires go to boarding school, where they meet friendly earily like themselves. Snickett's clever definitions and outragous characters make for some laughs in this dismal tale.
    • 3/5
      This book is the first book of the series that does not feel like it is a stand alone book- the ending leaves an uncomfortable cliffhanger which I suppose will be resolved in the next book. (All the other books ended up with the villain fleeing and the children feeling temporarily relieved.) Nonetheless, there were some parts of this book that made me chuckle, even though it is the weakest book of the series so far.
    • 3/5
      The orphans go to a school and there's a girl there pretty good book
    • 3/5
      Another funny book in the Unfortunate Events series. This is a very dark book with a very unpleasant ending. Even now, the sensation sticks with me. I don't know what makes me keep reading the books, but somehow they are just so funny. And the thing is, I keep picturing Jim Carrey now. Don't know if that's a good thing.
    • 4/5
      This was one of my favorite Baudelaire books so far. Very funny and I liked how they made friends with the triplets. Excited to see what happens next (even though the series has been done with for awhile!)
    • 4/5
      Please, Lemony Snicket, I ask imploringly, a word here which means "so as to have more free time," write a book that doesn't suck me completely into the story, one that doesn't monopolize my reading time, and make me less than attentive as a zoom through the book I read alternately with yours just to get back to yours. Please? Then I'll have more free time for doing things like fixing that leaky faucet, or solving the halting problem, or one of roughly a dozen other things I'd be doing if I weren't busy reading your books.Granted, please let me know if you decide to write an uninteresting book, so that I know to avoid it at all costs, no matter what the organ grinder and his monkey may try to convince me. You may send notice through the normal means, with the exception of heliograph, as I have recently taken up occupation with a family of feral bats, and they do not take so kindly the flashing lights, no matter what manner of information is being conveyed.Nevertheless, I would just like for you to know that I recently picked up and read The Austere Academy, and I would like to say the following things about it:I found it truly vivid, your description of the Baudelaire's stay at Prufrock Prep. I had the chance to visit the same not too long ago, and was indeed reminded, as their motto states, that someday I will die. Vice Principal Nero certainly seems the sort to act in a way you described: busily practicing violin (of which, I have heard, he is a musical genius, and not, as you say, bad at it) so as to not notice the dastardly Count Olaf disguised as Coach Genghis, ready to spirit the orphans away in some dastardly scheme. Additionally, I enjoyed learning about the surviving Quagmire triplets, who, like the Baudelaire orphans, were orphaned due to a fire burning down their home, and how they assisted the Baudelaire's in foiling Olaf's scheme. Those poor children.The story, however, could have done without mentioning Carmelita Spats. She is truly terrifying. My therapist, who, currently, is a computer program, as I have recently developed a fear of those educated beyond a Masters degree, has had to spend countless hours psychoanalyzing me to help me forget the dreadful beast of a child.I found the book, unfortunate as the subject matter was, to be well written, and a very honest account of the trials and tribulation faced by our orphaned heroes.Please, continue to impress me, assuming you are well and able to write more. Otherwise, I shall take comfort in the fact that I have secured all thirteen of your unfortunate tomes (and two dreadful holiday books), and am meanwhile scouring the bazaars for any other writings I may procure authored by you.I was told, once, by a man who could stand perfectly still like a statue, but still hold a rousing conversation, that one who was interested in some fellow named Handler might enjoy (if truly enjoy you can these unfortunate works) the accounts of the Baudelaire orphans. I have not myself verified this, as most respectable bookstores that sell the works of Handler do not accept my guano-stained currency.Respectfully yours.
    • 5/5
      This is a good book. It shows how having at least one friend can make ant situation a little better.
    • 4/5
      The Austere Academy is the 5th book in the Series of Unfortunate Events, the tales of the Baudelaire children. This one the Baudelaires are sent to a boarding school. At the school the Baudelaires meet the Quagmire twins triplets and become fast friends. As far as boarding schools go, this one takes the cake (here meaning Incredibly bad) and the Vice Principal seems to enjoy hiding his ineptness (hear meaning won't admit to himself he really can't play the violin) behind meanness to children.Another horrible addition to the terrible story of the Baudelaires in a Series of Unfortunate Events. Can't wait for the next one.
    • 4/5
      I quite enjoyed this book, not only because of the triplets and the pleasant vibe they added to the miserable setting but also because of the possibility of a more complicated plot aka “V.F.D” which adds a good element of mystery.
    • 4/5
      Good, good. Very funny too. I actually cried over this one. ;)