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Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window Audiobook Summary

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES

Dear Reader,

If you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted, but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all.If you haven’t got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane, a signalling device, hungry leeches, cold cucumber soup, a horrible villain, and a doll named Pretty Penny, then this book will probably fill you with despair.I will continue to record these tragic tales, for that is what I do. You, however, should decide for yourself whether you can possibly endure this miserable story.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

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About the Author(s) of Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window

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Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window Full Details

Narrator Lemony Snicket
Length 3 hours 6 minutes
Author Lemony Snicket
Category
Publisher HarperCollins
Release date September 21, 2004
ISBN 9780060793456

Subjects

The publisher of the Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window is HarperCollins. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Family, Juvenile Fiction, Siblings

Additional info

The publisher of the Series of Unfortunate Events #3: The Wide Window is HarperCollins. The imprint is HarperCollins. It is supplied by HarperCollins. The ISBN-13 is 9780060793456.

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This book is only available in the United States.

Goodreads Reviews

Steven

October 24, 2021

Narración altamente adictiva. Me ha gustado mucho.Antes que nada necesito aclarar que ya vi la serie de Netflix, por lo que obviamente ya conocía lo que sucedería en este volumen, y también lo que acontecerá en los siguientes. No obstante, a pesar de conocer el argumento, tengo curiosidad de conocer la forma como el autor presenta en los siguientes volúmenes los giros importantes de la trama, así como el desarrollo de las incógnitas. La adaptación me ha gustado mucho e incluso quisiera repetirla, pero eso no significa que me haya olvidado de la historia original: Quiero conocer las diferencias, las escenas omitidas, etc. Ese es mi objetivo con la lectura de los trece tomos. En este tercer volumen, llamado El ventanal, conoceremos las aventuras que tienen que vivir los niños Baudelaire (Violet, Klaus y Sunny) al irse a vivir con su tía Josephine. Ellos, que al inicio buscan desesperadamente un lugar al cual puedan llamarle hogar, poco a poco cambiarán su enfoque, ya que entenderán que no hay adulto que pueda protegerlos de su archienemigo, El Conde Olaf. Podría decirse que los Baudelaire son como aves encerradas en una jaula, que tras notar un peligro inminente, intentan a toda costa escapar de allí sin importar las consecuencias de sus actos: En esos casos deja de importar el bienestar; en esos casos lo primordial es alejarse del peligro inminente y sobrevivir. Me llama muchísimo la atención el cambio progresivo que van sufriendo psicológicamente los Baudelaire. De hecho, siento que es una jugada maestra por parte del autor ir trastornando poco a poco a los Baudelaire con su falta de fe hacia los adultos. Como los adultos siempre los defraudan, entonces ellos se ven forzados a buscar las propias soluciones de sus problemas. Los eventos desafortunados, su soledad y el sentimiento de abandono, son un gran peso para cualquier niño, y para los Baudelaire no son la excepción. Ellos no merecen sufrir lo que les acontece, ellos merecen seguir disfrutando su niñez sin tener preocupaciones; pero, el autor necesitaba para su historia el rol de niños huérfanos desamparados, y eso es exactamente lo que son los Baudelaire. Sí, son inteligentes y pueden usar sus habilidades para salir adelante, pero a pesar de eso no dejan de ser huérfanos indefensos en una selva peligrosa comandada por El Conde Olaf. Tomar decisiones difíciles, arriesgar sus propias vidas porque no tienen otro camino, y fingir fortaleza emocional, es el camino de los Baudelaire, día tras día.La prosa —sobresaliente en los primeros dos tomos— en este volumen mejora considerablemente. La prosa es ligera y está diseñada para un público juvenil, pero, en este volumen, las palabras del autor tienen la capacidad de crear una combinación entre humor cruel, sarcasmo, ironía y exageración: Es una combinación simplemente espectacular. Me reí muchísimo con las palabras y exageraciones de El Conde Olaf, me divierte la inocencia y picardía de Sunny, y el rol del narrador es una genialidad porque cuenta los acontecimientos de una forma cruel, pero sofisticada: Es una narración elegante. Tanto me he divertido en este volumen, que leí como 200 páginas sin detenerme porque solo quería seguir riéndome. Lo mejor, es que como sé que más adelante aparecerán otros personajes con un toque de humor también excelente, entonces eso se convierte en una motivación para continuar leyendo los siguientes volúmenes y así poder divertirme.Personalmente, este volumen me ha gustado más que los anteriores. Sé que al finalizar la saga no será mi favorito porque entre más vaya avanzando, la historia se tornará más interesante e intrigante, pero de momento es el que más he disfrutado. Por esa misma razón decido calificar este libro con cuatro estrellas y no con cinco, ya que si lo puntuara con cinco estrellas, entonces tendría que colocarles seis estrellas a los próximos volúmenes, y eso es imposible en Goodreads, o por lo menos en el momento. Saga recomendada.Próximo destino: El aserradero lúgubre.

R.K.

September 23, 2018

I’m having so much fun reading this series for the first time!

emma

February 02, 2018

I wrote a fairly oversized mini review for The Reptile Room. I do not foresee myself doing that for this one. It’s just...it doesn’t inspire the same emotion.Aunt Josephine is no Uncle Monty, guys. Like, she’s not supposed to be. But still.However. There is still cool stuff to be found in this. It is still Lemony Snicket, after all.The setting is particularly rad, which is impressive because this is one of my favorite worlds in all of literature. I like this lil village (shoutout to the Anxious Clown) and Lake Lachrymose and the harbor a lot.Also, Uncle Monty > Aunt Josephine, but Stephano < Captain Sham. So it almost balances. Almost.This book is not as sad as The Reptile Room (good!), but it is significantly more frustrating (not good). More and more hints at the complexity that is to come, though, sooooo….still 4.25 or 4.5 or whatever. Like it matters. It’ll be on Goodreads as four stars no matter what I say. (And screw you times infinity for that, Goodreads.)Well, would you look at that. I still wrote a lot.Shocker.Bottom line: In, like, my bottom five books of the thirteen that make up my favorite series. SO ARBITRARY. And so good.-------------PRE-REVIEWI'M REREADING THESE BOOKS SO MUCH FASTER THAN I CAN REVIEW THEM.yes, this is coming from the person who has a to-write list thirteen posts long. what of it? it's definitely the fault of these books for being so short and fun and addictive and not my fault for poor time management.so yet again, i shall say I LOVE THIS SERIES SO MUCH, followed by that even more common phrase:review to come

Tana 🌻

January 10, 2019

If I was Mr. Poe I would start believing the children when they freak out about some person being count Olaf. Not the smartest man, for a banker lol

Vanz

February 06, 2017

4.1 Ok this series is getting kinda inappropriate for children. I'm not even sure if it's a children's book anymore, since this one has a lot of dark, scary, and sensitive content in it. Nevertheless, it was still a fun and quick read just like the previous books. I really find it funny when Aunt Josephine keeps correcting everyone's grammatical errors. The kids always find a way to get out of their misfortunes, so there's really nothing to worry about them. But still, you can't help but sympathize. I'm enjoying this series so far and I'm off to read the 4th book, which is "The Miserable Mill".

Kristina

February 07, 2017

After watching the first 4 episodes of the new ASOUE series on Netflix, I decided to pause while I re-read books #3-4. I'm so glad I did, because I remembered very little in terms of details past book two, having read these book over a decade ago.I'm happy to see they still hold up and are tons of fun to revisit. And I'm loving the new series, so well done NPH and crew! Such a brilliant and faithful adaptation. My only gripe in this 2017 re-read is the insensitivity around the person in Count Olaf's theatre troupe "that looks neither like a man or a woman". Times change. That's a little cringey, and I'm embarrassed for the series each time it comes up.However. I love these books. Can't wait to read the Miserable Mill next.

✦BookishlyRichie✦

June 09, 2022

- RE-READ JUNE 2022!!! ~~~~~~~~ :)________________________________________4 STARS!!!Aunt Josephine is the definition of a whack job. I think Meryl Streep portrayed her PERFECTLY in the movie and I had fun imagining her as Aunt Josephine in the book. It was awesome. Mr. Poe is still a dumb ass and I'm waiting for Violet or Klaus to pop off at him soon. I want one of them to scream their head off at him just once because he is just UGHHH!!! Count Olaf is such an asshole, I really want the children to turn the tables and come up with plan to exact some Kill Bill revenge on his ass and get rid of him but the series goes onto 13 books so I guess we'll see how it pans out. I have a thing for lakes and fishermen type things because my grandpa was incredibly into fishing and loved lakes immensely so I had a lot of fun reading this one. :)I read the first 3 with the movie in mind and now I'm starting the fourth and it's going to be interesting to see how I imagine everything in my head since it wasn't adapted in the movie. I'll still imagine Violet, Klaus, Sunny, Mr. Poe, and Count Olaf as the actors who portrayed them in the film though because I think they pulled off the characters amazingly and I don't think anyone, not even the Netflix series could top them. Now on to The Miserable Mill!- Richard

kate

February 07, 2017

3.75* ~ WHY ARE ALL THE ADULTS IN THIS SERIES SO INCOMPETENT?! It's exhausting... (But equally kind of addictive?) Once again this was such a fun read!! Although? I don't think I enjoyed it quite as much as the first two books, simply because it felt a little too similar and repetitive. I'm intrigued to see what the rest of the series has in store. I'm hoping that the storyline will start to differ slightly to the first three, as so far the basic underlying plot has had pretty much the same structure!

Sophia

November 25, 2020

This audio book is narrated by ‘Lemony Snicket’. He doesn’t have the same perfectly creepy whisper voice Tim Curry had but he told the story well enough. Interestingly, he also did not change his voice too much for each character. Side note: This narrator (unfortunately) does not do the Poe coughing.

Brooke

October 17, 2020

Another fantastic addition to the series, but my goodness is Aunt Josephine annoying! Similar to the first two book in the series, The Wide Window is just plain great. The characters, storyline and, most importantly, the humorous writing style feel like a perfect continuation of what I've already read.My only real problem was Aunt Josephine. My gosh! She drove me nuts. I know she was supposed to, but still... She was just so irritating, and I never developed any sort of feeling toward her. She was just there. And very, very irritating.But as you can see from my rating, one bothersome character definitely didn't ruin the whole story. I still loved it!If you haven't picked up a book from this series yet, I would definitely recommend you do so! It's truly the sort of story that anyone of any age can enjoy.My Book 1: The Bad Beginning ReviewMy Book 2: The Reptile Room Review(Connect with me.)

Ashley

February 07, 2017

I am just flying through these books! Despite being dark and gloomy, they are so fun and enjoyable to read. And no matter how many times I reread them, I enjoy them just as much if not more each time. I think a big part of the reason for that is that as I get older I can appreciate things about these stories that I didn't when I was younger and I noticed that a lot in this particular book. I found myself actually chuckling out loud at the subtle but clever humour that's woven throughout this story! Snicket has truly written a series that stands the test of time and is as enjoyable when you're a child as when you're an adult!

Amelia

August 19, 2018

I really enjoyed this book in the A Series of Unfortunate Events series. The plot did feel like it was repeated from The Reptile Room.

Irene ➰

April 08, 2017

4/5 "In most stories, as you know, the villain would be defeated, there would be a happy ending, and everybody would go home knowing the moral of the story. But in the case of the Baudelaires, everything was wrong." These books are so much fun to read.Every time I'm so curious to see what's going to happen to those children.In this book we are introduced to Aunt Josephine and the Count is always there to try to put his hands on the children. So I'm starting thinking that maybe all the books have the "same"plot more or less. (?)The book is set in a short period of time, so we have a pretty detailed experience. There's a case to solve in this one as well, but I found it less exciting than the previous book.I liked a lot the location though, I simply love the sea etc so it was very pleasant to read a book with a lake and its creatures and everything that goes around it.I don't want to talk about the adults because I'd be very repetivite, they are just terrible lol (in a bad way for the children but in a good way for me as a reader).But where will they go now?!Till the next tragedy!

Elaina

February 08, 2017

These books are not my favorites or anything, but I think I enjoyed this one the most out of the three I've read :)

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