- Hardcover: 286 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books; First edition (6 Dec 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0064410129
- ISBN-13: 978-0064410120
- Product Dimensions: 18.9 x 13.5 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,134,652 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“Is there a gleam of hope for the orphans and their new friends? Most certainly not. The only thing we can really count on are more gloriously gloomy adventures.” Karin Snelson, Amazon.com
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Joining the Caligari Carnival, where people come to see lions and messy eating, the Baudelaire siblings' story involves a confusing map, an ambidextrous person, a wooden plank and Chabo the Wolf Baby.
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When my workday is over, and I have closed my notebook, hidden my pen, and sawed holes in my rented canoe so that it cannot be found, I often like to spend the evening in conversation with my few surviving friends. Read the first page
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When my workday is over, and I have closed my notebook, hidden my pen, and sawed holes in my rented canoe so that it cannot be found, I often like to spend the evening in conversation with my few surviving friends. Read the first page
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The ninth book in the series is one of the funniest and is extremely interesting throughout, despite a slow build up. The Baudelaire orphans find themselves arriving at caligari carnival in the back of olaf's car this time. They disguise themselves as freaks for the freakshow in this carnival to find out what olafs really up to. It turns out Madame Lulu, a mysterious fortune teller, holds the answers to all the baudelaires question, but as their luck would have it, their are many obstacles along the way, incluing olaf and some hungry lions...
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Im not able to comment on whether this is the book in the series as we are still waiting for all 13 books to be published, however I can say that this is the 2nd best book to date. I recently purchased this in Canada and I read it in a few days. The plot follows on from Book 8 (so read Book 8 before this one!!!!)
The scene for this book is a Carnival in the Hinterlands where the Orphans end up after travelling in Count Olaf's car boot. They are sent to work in the Carnival as "Freaks." However you will have to read the book to find out what happens to them in the end. All I will say is the end of the book will leave you wanting the 10th Book (The Slipperly Slope) immediately!!!
The scene for this book is a Carnival in the Hinterlands where the Orphans end up after travelling in Count Olaf's car boot. They are sent to work in the Carnival as "Freaks." However you will have to read the book to find out what happens to them in the end. All I will say is the end of the book will leave you wanting the 10th Book (The Slipperly Slope) immediately!!!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Library Binding
Life had never been good for the Baudaulaire orphans. Although Violet, Klaus and Sunny were very talented and clever, they were constantly on the run from people who wanted to steal their fortune and kill them.In addition to this their friends, the Quagmires, had been kidnapped. And then there was the mystery of "the survivor" and V.F.D.In this thriller the Baudaulaires find themselves in the world of the carnival, where carnivorous beasts lurk behind every shadow and trouble clings on to the orphans like velcro, where fortune tellers pedict unpredictable things...
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Disappointing
I'm a little torn about rhis book. Whilst I was fascinated about the overall plot and how the series will finish, I found this volume quite weak. Read more
Published 8 days ago by Martensgirl
i was fab
This book is relly very fab lemony snicket books are my alltime favourite when i start reading them u cant stop this book number nine is very intresting how they meet madame lulu... Read more
Published 3 months ago by mini
Carnivals are not carnivorous except in this one case
The word "carnivorous," which appears in the title of this book, means "meat-eating," and once you have read such a bloodthirsty word, there is no reason to read any further. Read more
Published on 13 Jan 2008 by Mehajabeen Farid
Letter from Violet, Klaus and Sunny to Lemony Snicket
Dear Mr. Snicket,
We have found out about you telling our story, and we wanted to communicate with you. Read more
We have found out about you telling our story, and we wanted to communicate with you. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 2007 by Sebastian Fernandez
Pretty good,though not his best
Yeah,it is OK.But i have read all his books and don't think it's as good as the next book in the series, which is, for me, the best one.But it's pretty good. Read more
Published on 13 Mar 2007 by lindabookworm
brandons report
very good book
Published on 26 July 2005 by brandon
The book that's as carniverous as its title
I think Lemony Snicket writes great books and if you start you can't stop. Book no.9 is the best so far as it includes chabo the wolf baby and a two headed freak, but are they... Read more
Published on 10 July 2004 by Christian
Good from page one
I have read the other books of unfortunate events by the brilliant author Lemony Snicket. The plot in all the books revolves around 3 orphaned children. Viloet, Klause and Sunny. Read more
Published on 28 May 2004 by Michael Cawdrey
The carnivorous carnival
This book was excellent, as the Baudlaire siblings embark on their everlasting quest to find out the truth about the fire that supposedly engulfed their parents. Read more
Published on 20 Feb 2004
The Carnivorous Carnival
I am a fan of Lemony Snicket and have read all the other 8 books and am eagerly awaiting the 10th.Let me say I was not dissapointed. Read more
Published on 25 Nov 2003
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