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A review by the_gandy_man
The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket
3.75
Solid book. It's good for all the reasons you'd expect. I don't need to keep repeating them. Jacques Snicket is an interesting twist. I also like that the Baudelaires successfully saved the Quagmires. It's certainly not ideal, because they probably won't get to see them again, and they didn't get to learn the secrets the Quagmires knew, but it feels good that they've achieved a goal they set multiple books ago.
I'm a little tired of the "which here means" bit. Sometimes it's genuinely defining a word or phrase, which I understand given this series' target audience. Sometimes it's wrongly defining a word or phrase, but in a way which is funny. Both of these are fine. What I'm tired of is when it wrongly defines a word or phrase by just being too specific. The definition being wrong isn't intrinsically funny, at least not this many times. It's getting a bit repetitive. But this is a minor complaint, and not specific to this book.
I'm a little tired of the "which here means" bit. Sometimes it's genuinely defining a word or phrase, which I understand given this series' target audience. Sometimes it's wrongly defining a word or phrase, but in a way which is funny. Both of these are fine. What I'm tired of is when it wrongly defines a word or phrase by just being too specific. The definition being wrong isn't intrinsically funny, at least not this many times. It's getting a bit repetitive. But this is a minor complaint, and not specific to this book.