1st book of Series of Unfortunate Events

Honestly, I read this book because I couldn't find any good books in the library, and it was one of the few books that I have in my house. However, I have never thoroughly read this book, so I decided to take a stab at it. The theme I think is depression, because the children suffer depression while being in the Count's house.

Lemony Snicket wrote this depressing book which seems sort of amusing to me. I liked his sense of humor, and telling the meaning of random vocabulary words and relating it into the story. In this story, a children of the Baudelaire family heard the shocking news. Their parents died from a terrible fire. Because of this, they were sent to a house of a terrible distant relative named Count Olaf, a theater actor. After suffering quite a while from being a "captive" of the house, the children discovered the real purpose of the Count's hospitality of the kids. For their family heritage!

This is as far as I got to. Although I just started this book, I don't plan on finishing it because it seems pretty childish, and would like to enjoy more classic books.

Post #4 of RedWall

Today, I finished the book RedWall. Overall, I didn't like this book. The battle between the RedWall citizens and Cluny the Scourge seemed extremely unfair. Cluny never succeeded in defeating the RedWall citizens until the very end, where he eventually died. There was no suspense at all, so as a reader, I wasn't very entertained.

Although the story was toward its finish, Matthias made more friends. While on his quest, Matthias became friends with some querulous creatures called Shrews. They were like mice, but were weird looking. They always argued with each other, and Matthias was often annoyed because of that. With the Shrew's help, he found out where he could find the long lost sword which was stolen by a giant viper. While searching for the whereabouts of the viper, he became friends with an owl named Captain Snow, and a cat. With their help, Matthias was able to kill the viper, and retrieve the lost sword. 

While this was taking place, Cluny sent a spy inside RedWall, and made him open the gate door while all of the city's citizens were sleeping. Everyone seemed to be helpless under the captive of Cluny's horde. Matthias, the only warrior of RedWall who still had liberty gathered up all of his friends (shrews, sparrows, owl, cat) and killed all of the enemy mercilessly. Cluny was killed, and Matthias was greatly honored. RedWall was victorious.

In the beginning, I planned to finish the entire series. However, after finishing the first novel, I don't think I want to read a book by Brian Jacques again. Although the vocabulary and sentence structure was higher than the level of an elementry student, the plot was very childish.

Post #3 of RedWall

In this part of the book, the sparrows are introduced. When Jess (a squirrel that is expert at climbing) was fulfilling the  request of the Abbot to climb to the tip of the castle and retrieve a long lost sword, she was raided by a group of sparrows. In their attempt to scare away the sparrows, the archers started to fire arrows at the sparrows. One of the arrows accidentally hit a sparrow named Warbeak, a belligerent sparrow that hated mice. While it was held captive, the sparrow threatened every creature within its vicinity that it would kill them once it is freed. If she doesn't succeed in doing so, then her group leader would. Matthias at the same time searched for the long lost sword. He had an idea that the sparrows might have taken the weapon, so he seeked Warbeak for help. Warbeak wasn't as kind at the beginning, but on their trip to the top of the castle where the sparrow nests were, they grew intimate with one another, and eventually became good friends. When the sparrow boss tried to kill Matthias, it was Warbeak who saved Matthias.

The leader of the sparrow tribe is depicted as an unfit ruler who took advantage of his power too much. He was very mean to Matthias also. He took Matthias' sword belt that too was legendary, and took all of the goods that Matthias had at that time. The only way Matthias was to be granted freedom was if he was to bring more goods to the boss. Although the sparrows had the same opinion as Matthias, they couldn't do anything because they were afraid of the boss' excellent fighting skill. Together with Warbeak and her mother, Matthias plans to escape the captivity of the sparrows.