Thursday, December 19, 2013

Book 140: The Miserable Mill

 After having done quite a bit of work in factories myself, I feel I can tell you a little about how horrible it really is. Although Mr. Snicket does a wonderful job at describing how terrible it is working with breaks that shortness linger on illegality and how tiring the work is, until you experience life on a bell similar to one you would have had in your grade school, surrounded by people who have many years on you who hate their job with more ferocity than you could imagine, you may have a hard time knowing how extremely terrible of a time the Baudelaire orphans are having at the Miserable Mill.

This was the first Series of Unfortunate Events book I ever read and I had long ago forgotten the plot, so it was in some ways quite surprising to me. I found it hard to tell who Olaf was and for much of the book oscilated between the masked foreman and the eye doctor.

I found that the fact that Sunny was sword fighting with her teeth to be a little troubling, but other than that the conclusion of this book was really awesome. I found it really intriguing the way that Klaus and Violet switched roles in this novel; where Violet did the research while Klaus was hypnotizes and Klaus invented a fishing rod to save the day.

I rate this book a healthy 8 out of 10. Not the best and not the worst. 



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