The Reptile Room

There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair.&#13;<br/> You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on . . .&#13;<br/> In The Reptile Room the siblings endure a car accident a terrible smell a deadly serpent a long knife a brass reading lamp and the re-appearance of a person they&#8217;d hoped never to see again.&#13;<br/> With 5 million copies sold in the UK alone one might consider Lemony Snicket&#8217;s A Series of Unfortunate Events to make him one of the most successful children&#8217;s authors of the past decade. We however consider these miserable so-called adventure stories and the Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey that accompanied the books for children as nothing more than a dreadful mistake.