![]() This book finds the Baudelaire orphans attending the Prufrock Preparatory School, a place as miserable and cartoonishly nonsensical as any they’ve visited thus far. Specifically, Lemony Snicket gives more depth to his mysterious relationship with the lost Beatrice to whom he dedicates all of his books. We learn of secrets that have thus far only been implied, and while we know that we’ve still got eight more books to go before The End, the clues we’re getting now are intriguing and help morph their world into a more carefully designed whole. This story kicks the mysterious world of the Baudelaire orphans into high gear. The Harper Audio team finally managed to level out the sounds in this book, making it moderately more enjoyable to hear. His soft narration in the previous books required that we crank our car stereo up to 50, which blew our ear drums out whenever he voiced a character like Count Olaf (a rendition, I might add, which is a terribly annoying, screechy voice that doesn’t at all fit the character we all have in our minds). ![]() As we plow through this series on audio book, we continue to miss Tim Curry (who voiced both The Bad Beginning and The Reptile Room), but are very grateful that Daniel Handler’s audio has vastly improved since The Wide Window and The Miserable Mill. ![]()
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