The series is already widely popular, but it's worth mentioning again. These books are the type you can go back and read over and over, because of the humor in them. I have a problem describing these to people because the subject matter sounds so morbid that when I tell anyone how funny they are, they look at me like I'm crazy... :). It's funnier than the movie and Count Olaf is scarier than in the movie... just so you know.
Anyway, Bad Beginning is just what it sounds like. It follows the series' main characters Violet (an inventor), Klaus (a reader), and Sunny (a biter) Baudelaire as they find out that their parents have been killed in a fire, and are sent to live with their distant relative, Count Olaf. Their situation goes from bad to worse when they find out how despicable their new guardian, and his acting troupe, is.
Favorite Quote: "If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle...Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were charming, and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them was rife with misfortune, misery, and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that is how the story goes."
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