Reader Series: 'The Bad Beginning,' Lemony Snicket
This is the first post in a series leading up to the premiere of Netflix's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events' on January 13, 2017. The series will cover each of the 13 books and 'Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography.' Be warned: there are spoilers ahead. Lemony Snicket (AKA Daniel Handler) has one of the most fascinating writing styles you will ever read. Somewhere on the spectrum between existentialism and realism, A Series of Unfortunate Events covers the surprisingly unsoftened story of the Baudelaire orphans: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. The first book, noticeably shorter and simpler than the following increments in the series, starts at the beginning, which is shockingly bad. When the orphans lose their parents, and home, in a house fire, their parents' executor, the coughing and inept Mr. Poe, sends them to live with odious and villainous Count Olaf. The Bad Beginning focuses on a short span of time, from the orphans' introducti...