- I like this book because it is a mystery. When it is a mystery, it keeps me wanting to read more. It makes me want to figure out who the good and bad people are. There are many villains in this book. Many different kinds too. Some work in lumber mills. Others work in banks. One also works as a theatrical artist. I admire the Baudelaire children. I say that because they have been through thick and thin. They have been through horrible fires, many deaths, and have encountered awful people.
Even though they have
been through all of that, they still manage to think positive. If I
had been through all of that, I don't know how I would be able to
think right. The Baudelaire orphans lost their parents in a fire,
along with their family fortune and house. They also found
themselves in the hands of a man named Count Olaf. A man who
wanted the orphans' family fortune. He wanted it so bad, he thought
of an idea to marry the oldest Baudelaire, Violet. These are the
reasons why I liked this book. It not only shows that you can do
something along the lines of...setting a fire in a hotel to save the
people you love, but to do it when you've already been through so
much. I recommend this book “The Penultimate Peril” to anyone
who has the time to read it. It is the twelfth book in the series,
so you should probably read the other eleven, if you are interested.
- This is what the author could have done to make it more interesting. Instead of the people driving the car behind Kit Snicket and not have noticed the Baudelaires, I thought they should have noticed. If that happened, it would be very interesting to see what they would do. I also think the author should have stated which of the managers was Frank and which one was Earnest. If the Baudelaire orphans knew which one was which, they would have been careful when discussing important conversations. When Violet went to give Carmelita Spats a harpoon gun, I think Carmelita should have tried to shoot Violet, but miss, to make it more interesting. The author could've also had Count Olaf be the one that crawls down the rope. Instead of it being Dewey Denouement. The author should have also made the Baudelaires go into the taxi when the man offered. That would have made it suspenseful.
Lemony Snicket, the
author, could have made Count Olaf escape when he had to be locked
in room 165. If that happened, there would have been a whole other
twist to the book. I'm not saying
it would have been better, because I wouldn't know, but I'm sure it
would have been exciting. When Dewey Denouement was killed and fell
into the pond, I think the man driving the taxi should have ran
toward him and see what happened. When the Baudelaires and everyone
who was staying at the Hotel Denouement went to court, I think there
should have been a man or woman in the crowd that said
something about the death that made everything change. These are a
lot of changes that the author could have made. Not all of them are
great ideas. The book is fine how it is. It doesn't need any
changes. These were just some ideas that I thought of.
- The book was very easy to understand. There were some words that I didn't know, but the author said what the unusual words meant. The book was also all put into place, so it all made sense. Even though it is the twelfth book in the series, you could read it without knowing it was in a series and still get what its saying. Some things in the story didn't make much sense, but when I read over a couple of times, I figured out what it was saying. The book isn't really supposed to make sense, though. Considering that the Baudelaires' lives didn't make any sense. The book has some quotes of famous novel and poem writers. They were written in the eighteenth century, so the words were hard to figure out. I finally figured out what they meant, and they were really good quotes.
The rest of the
book was legible. It made more sense at the end than the beginning.
Most likely because in the beginning of the book, the author was
trying to tell so much, that it got a little confusing. At the end
of the book, he told what was happening right then and there, instead
of going forward into the book when he shouldn't have. I like the
kind of language the author uses. It makes you have a large variety
of words to choose from after you are done reading the book. Most
of which I would never use, because it would sound weird if a twelve
year old said them. Overall, this book was easy to read. If I read
the book when I was older, it might have been very easy and I would
have no problem. Maybe I'll read the rest of the series after I'm
done with this, to have the rest of the book make sense.
- One of the reading strategies I did was reading over what I just read. I only did this to some sentences. I did this because some of the words didn't make sense to me at first. After I read it a few times, I knew what it meant. Some of the sentences I never got. They were too confusing for me to comprehend what it was saying. This strategy helped me most of the time throughout the book. Except for when the sentences were too long and confusing. When that was the problem, I used a new kind of strategy. This strategy was called trying my best and figure it out.
I did many things
for this strategy. I looked up words in the dictionary. I asked
people what some of the words meant. I also used context clues. By
using that, I could figure out what a word meant, by looking at the
sentences and figure out what it would most likely mean. These
strategies worked best. Now that I used all of those strategies, I
could tell you the whole book without having to look in it a few
times. That was how easy it was to remember what happens in the
story. These are all of the strategies I used. They may not be the
best, but they worked fine for me.
- Some parts of the novel seemed pretty realistic. Not all of it, but most of it. Some of the components that made it realistic is that they are a family going through many problems. They are orphans that have met many different people, in many different places. They have people that they are not to fond of. They have people that care for them. The Baudelaire orphans have gotten in trouble. Just like everyone has. They have met kind, horrible, pretty, ugly, and treacherous people, and everyone has done that. These are reasons why some of it seemed realistic.
Here are some reasons why
it didn't seem realistic. The Baudelaire children were dropped off
to a hotel to be undercover spies. That just seems a little to much.
That would be like my mom dropping me off to Holiday Inn to spy on
villains. Don't you think that is a little weird? The book also
says that they have a boat at the top of the hotel. It says that the
Baudelaire orphans jump into the boat and go off the top of the
roof, into the ocean. That doesn't make any sense and how would
they even get the boat off of the roof? I don't get it. I don't
really think anyone could even do that without falling out of the
boat. This is why I thought the book was a little bit unrealistic.
- I was somewhat interested in the book. It got a little boring in the middle of it. I don't really like reading, so it was even more boring. I did get a little interested though. Mostly at the end of the book. I do think the author should have made it a little more exciting. It would have made reading a lot easier. Maybe if he would have made it better, I would have read it faster too. I think that was the reason it took me forever to read the book, because it was too boring. I say that, because I read the Twilight Series fast, it was a very exciting book and it has way more pages than this book. This book has two hundred pages less than The Twilight Series does, and it took me longer to read this book.
It
wasn't very easy for me to get through this book. It wasn't easy,
because it was very tedious. I can't read at home, because I get
too distracted.
