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    Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto
    Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto
    Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto
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    Series of Unfortunate Events #11: The Grim Grotto

    Written by Lemony Snicket

    Narrated by Tim Curry

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    NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

    Warning: Your day will become very dark—and possibly damp—if you read this book.

    Plan to spend this spring in hiding. Lemony Snicket is back with the eleventh book in his New York Times bestselling A Series of Unfortunate Events.

    Lemony Snicket's saga about the charming, intelligent and grossly unlucky Baudelaire orphans continues to provoke suspicion and despair in readers the world over. In the eleventh and most alarming volume yet in the bestselling phenomenon A Series of Unfortunate Events, the intrepid siblings delve further into the dark mystery surrounding the death of their parents and the baffling VFD organisation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 21, 2004
    ISBN9780060793494
    Author

    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
      Cant wait to see what happens next ... i really love this series and although it seems to be gloomy and dull, but it isnt . Its totally the opposite and everyone will surely enjoy to read it
    • 5/5
      Exceptional, I can’t believe how these books keep getting better and better
    • 5/5
      the grim grotto has a wonderful way of telling this well-told story about three children who are orphaned by a fire.
      a series of unfortunate events is unpredictable and tells a wonderful story.
      I love this series.
    • 5/5
      Love this series! Always so funny and kind of weird. The only thing I don’t like is the weird music that plays sometimes. But the narrator is amazing!
    • 5/5
      Amazing amazing amazing narrator! And I loved the story in this one a ton.
    • 3/5
      The Baudelaires use a submarine to try to find a hidden grotto that might just hold a secret vital to VFD--but its protected by poisonous mushrooms. And no sooner than they emerge from the grim grotto, than they find that Count Olaf has found them yet again, and that not all of their allies are loyal.

      The last chapter is great. After 10 books of being repeatedly failed by every adult they come across (due to the foolishness, weakness, vanity or wickedness of the adults), the Baudelaires finally explicitly reject the proferred adult help, and strike out entirely on their own.
    • 3/5
      Dyd5y5j ever. R. R r rvrrr r t t t
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed this series a lot, though I don't have much to say about the individual books.
    • 4/5
      audio book is a great vacation "read" for the whole family
    • 5/5
      Amazing book, I love it. Always do many surprises and cliffhangers. Truly fabulous.
    • 5/5
      Honestly, this book was my favorite book in the series so far. Also the personal saying "He who hesitates is lost" doesn't work in life.
    • 4/5
      Beginning with The Slippery Slope, these books seem to be more involved than the previous couple in the series. As with The Slippery Slope, more character development, more twists and turns, and I learned a lot about the water cycle. Mr Snicket would likely suggest that I read Melville or Browning or even Edgar Guest rather than finish out the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans, but I'm going to take my chances and read on.
    • 4/5
      It’s been a long time since I read the first ten books of this series, and I easily fell back into reading this one. Snicket creates a tragic event in three young children’s life into an exciting, extraordinary and unique tale of mystery, adventure and despair. He continually tells you not to read on and relates the story around a theme. For this instalment our central focus was upon the water cycle which was related to the underwater adventure. It’s interesting how he manages to pair this with the nature of the three children and their journey and he continually reminds us throughout the book of this! We have still yet to have our questions answered and if not got more than we originally started with, but Snicket’s really holds the attention of the reader and makes the pages turn! The children are as intuitive as ever, and they make up an interesting and intelligent set of characters. It’s nice to watch the progression of Sunny from a baby into a more able and talking toddler and Violet seems to always be beyond her 15 years in my view. I found there was real suspense, excitement and with in this story. However some of his continual repetition that created the characters began to annoy me at times, and I found myself wishing they’d shut up. Despite this, I think the book has some very engaging moments, a good mystery that doesn’t really give away the ending and a continual need to carry on and read the series. The Grim Grotto is without a doubt a fantastic addition to the young adult genre. I think Snicket makes the Series of Unfortunate Events appealable to both the young generation and the adults who like to indulge in the young-adult genre.
    • 4/5
      The Baudelaire orphans find themselves separated from their new ally floating helplessly down a river. Just when they think all hope is lost, a strange submarine appears and takes them on board. The inhabitants are an odd group of unanticipated friends. The three siblings are soon utilizing their unique talents to track down the lost sugar bowl. It's important that they retrieve this lost item before Count Olaf and no mushroom will stand in their way!
    • 5/5
      It was pretty grim.
    • 4/5
      The Grim Grotto is still one of my least favorites in the series, after The Miserable Mill, and it was mainly Widdershins being Widdershins in the beginning of the book. I forgot just how annoying he really was. That being said, I enjoyed this much more the second time than the first! There was such an intense task for the Baudelaires to solve in this book and even knowing the outcome of it, I was still reading with worry. They got to see just how gray villainy and family can be and really kept on with taking matters into their own hands. Also, I love Hooky.
    • 5/5
      When this series came out, I was a huge fan. It's now been a long time since I've read them, so this review won't have any specifics. The humor and characters were a huge draw, along with the continuation of the overarching story about the Baudelaire's parents.
    • 4/5
      I got back into the series again partway through this one.
    • 4/5
      The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snickett is the 11th book in a series of Unforunate Events which tells the sad story of the Baudelaire orphans and their nemeses Count Olaf. In this eleventh installment the Baudelaire orphans are saved by a submarine called the Queequeg captained by Widdershins and his daughter Fiona. The Baudelaire are happy to see that they are saved by a member of the VDF who is a member of the VFD who is also in search for the sugar bowl. Although The Baudelaire orphans are not in danger by Count Olaf in this book, they still have to fix the Queequg so they will not drown. Also the sugar bowl is in a underwater cave and the cave is filled with poisonous mushrooms and a new villain. In the end, the children are confused and are approaching the Hotel Denouement. The theme of the book is surviving a wasteland according to Violet.
    • 4/5
      For me, this wasn't the best book in the series so far. I found Captain Widdershins a bit too annoying and ended up skipping over a lot of dialogue. Overall a good book in the series though and looking forward to reading the next one. I would recommend this book. 4 out of 5 stars.
    • 4/5
      The children team up with another ridiculous adult, get themselves into a pickle, and are once again tracked down by Count Olaf. There are questions of loyalty and perspective. Once again the youngsters elude their would be captors.
    • 3/5
      I'm getting there... I'm getting there... up to #11!

      This is the one where the Baudelaire orphans end up on a submarine with Captain Widdershins, whose motto is 'He who hesitates is lost,' and his stepdaughter, Fiona, who realizes that sometimes hesitating might be the wise thing to do - but who may not be trustworthy.

      Not only do the three orphans have to escape the clutches of the evil Count Olaf, here they must also avoid dying from exposure to poisonous fungus, the Medusoid Mycelium.
    • 3/5
      The troubles continue for the Baudelaires. I was annoyed that the didn't ask the hook handed man if Olaf treated him better than his step-father. I liked the description of Carmeltia as the ultimate girly fantasy - a tap-dancing, ballerina fairy princess veterinarian.
    • 5/5
      This is honestly one of my favorite Unfortunate Events books in a long time. This book is positively eerie, creepy, and terrifying. Something about undersea adventures just creeps me out, and it's a fear that I believe is somewhat universal. Plus, an extremely dangerous and unpredictable mushroom... it all combines to make a chilling adventure.Plus, this book really explores humanity and how people are not necessarily black and white like the Baudelaires first believed it to be. The hook-handed man describes people like a salad, with all kinds of stuff in it -- not just good or evil. The orphans even experience it firsthand.To add to it, the mysteries get even deeper. Lemony Snicket somehow is able to keep adding more and more questions without disregarding the old questions. He doesn't outright answer hardly any of the questions that have been asked in past novels, and yet somehow they get answered anyway.And let's not forget Sunny. Lovely Sunny.
    • 4/5
      The 11th book in the Series of Unfortunate Events: The Grim Grotto discloses that the Baudelaires are just one in a whole line-up of families who are or were members of the VFD and that the schism in the organization is the cause of much of the trouble that the Baudelaires encounter. How benevolent was the original VFD? Who is on what side? Even their supposed allies can switch sides suddenly. On the bright side, Sunny is becoming quite resourceful and eloquent. Can't wait to finish the series and have all questions answered.
    • 3/5
      One of the more unusual books in the series, finally Olaf has stopped with disguises and we are finally getting some more information on VFD, I swear the author has us on a drip-feed.
    • 4/5
      The unfortunate saga surges forward; this time, underwater. At the end of the last book, the Baudelaire children were being carried helplessly down the Stricken Stream, after narrowly escaping Olaf's clutches yet again. This new entry in the series picks up at the moment the last book stops, with the three siblings clutching a toboggan that is recklessly plunging down the river. Their desperate situation takes a turn for the better, though, when they bump into a periscope and are admitted to the Queequeg, a submarine manned by members of the V.F.D. Captain Widdershins ushers them into the main hall of the vessel, where they meet his stepdaughter, Fiona, and a friendly old face, Phil from the lumber mill. They are all wearing waterproof suits sporting the profile of Herman Melville, and the Baudelaires step into their own suits, complete with old-fashioned diving helmets.As in recent books in the series, the roles have changed for the children. Instead of fighting to escape and flee from the bad situations Olaf forces upon them, they are now on the offence, working to thwart the villainous people and be in charge of their destiny. The siblings welcome the chance to join Widdershins and his crew in the search for the mysterious sugar bowl. Captain Widdershins knows why this bowl is so important, but he won't tell the children, because some secrets are too terrible to know. The Baudelaires know that Olaf and Esme want it, though, and this is incentive enough to find it first. Klaus uses his knowledge of tidal charts to help Fiona track a course for where the sugar bowl could have gone, and the ship heads towards the grim grotto, an underwater cave located adjacent to a facility that was once run by the V.F.D. (before being burned to the ground, of course).
    • 4/5
      The Grim Grotto starts off wonderfully. There is a good mix of what makes this series entertaining. We're introduced to two new characters—one as hilarious as Aunt Josephine was, the other as seemingly loyal as the Quagmires (and cute too). The conspiracy continues to unravel, Sunny continues to utter adorableness, and events continue to grow more and more unfortunate.The second half of the book wasn't nearly as wonderful, primarily because the book loses its humor, becomes trapped by the adventure taking place, and relies a bit too heavily on the established formula, a phrase which here means Count Olaf would've gotten away with his villainous crimes had it not been for those meddling kids. Nevertheless, it sets up a nice introduction to the next book.Despite my waning attention toward the end, I thought this book was one of the best of the series. Mystery, humor, adventure, heartbreak—it's all here. Only two more to go!A Series of Unfortunate Events:The Bad Beginning – 3.1The Reptile Room – 3.2The Wide Window – 3.6The Miserable Mill – 3.3 The Austere Academy – 3.4The Ersatz Elevator – 3.3The Vile Village – 3.1The Hostile Hospital – 3.4The Carnivorous Carnival – 3.9The Slippery Slope – 3.6The Grim Grotto – 3.9
    • 3/5
      It was really weird reading this book because at the same time I was reading Operation Mincemeat. Both of these spend some amount of time taking place in a submarine. Pretty funny. Anywho, I'm getting close to the end. I already checked out the next one. Things are definitely getting complicated.
    • 3/5
      It's finally good to see things change for the orphans.