Series of Unfortunate Events #5: The Austere Academy

Name: Series of Unfortunate Events #5: The Austere Academy
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Lemony Snicket
ISBN: 9780060793432

Author: Lemony Snicket

Series: Series of Unfortunate Events #5

Narrator: Lemony Snicket

Abridged: 3 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/21/2004

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Humor

Synopsis

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIESAs the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School, they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or ""Remember you will die.""This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books that began with The Bad Beginning and only got worse.

About 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 thirteen volumes in A Series of Unfortunate Events, several picture books, including The Dark, and the books collectively titled All the Wrong Questions.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Federico on March 25, 2023

Mimicry SADNESS. After leaving Lucky Smells Lumbermill and optimistic Phil behind, the Baudelaire orphans travel to Prufrock Prep, a boarding school with mossy streets and ugly gray buildings that look like tombstones; here they meet Vice Principal Nero, an insufferable character who enjoys mimicry......more

Goodreads review by Mark on April 25, 2024

Another decent read with Celyn. It seems that The Miserable Mill may have been the low-point of the series as this volume is an improvement. The formula is applied once more, but with a slight variation in that the Baudelaires find friends of their own age and this alliance faces Count Olaaf with pr......more

Goodreads review by emma on March 05, 2018

AND SO IT BEGINS. Yes, technically this is the fifth book in the series, but to me, it is the very first. This is the book when I really start to love this series, which, in case you are new to my reviews or have been otherwise purposefully ignoring my Snicket-related screeching, is my favorite in the......more

Goodreads review by ☾❀Miriam✩ on August 28, 2019

For Beatrice- You will always be in my heart, in my mind, and in your grave. This book may not be the most interesting of the five I read so far plot-wise, but man was it funny! I was actually laughing out loud at some point, and really isn't the humour the best thing about this whole series? I also lik......more

Goodreads review by Vanz on February 05, 2017

4.4 The best ASOUE book I've read so far. I love how the story is starting to have a bit of depth in it. For instance, we were introduced to the Quagmire twins (supposed to be triplets) who were also orphans whose parents died in a fire along with their third sibling. Vice Principal Nero was also......more