The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket (Audiobook Review)

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Title: The Ersatz Elevator
Series: A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book the Sixth
Author: Lemony Snicket
Narrator: Tim Curry
Publisher: Recorded Books
Duration: 4 hours, 17 minutes
Copyright: 2004
Genres: adventure, fantasy, juvenile
Filed in: Audiobook reviews
Review copy provided by Kearney Public Library.

PUBLISHER’S SUMMARY:
Dear Listener,
Like the previous audiobooks in A Series of Unfortunate Events, there is nothing to be heard here but misery, despair, and discomfort, and you still have time to choose something else to listen to.
Within the chapters of this story, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire encounter a darkened staircase, a red herring, some friends in a dire situation, three mysterious initials, a liar with an evil scheme, a secret passageway, and parsley soda.
I have sworn to write down these tales of the Baudelaire orphans so the general public will know each terrible thing that has happened to them, but if you decide to listen to something else instead, you will save yourself from a heapful of horror and woe.
With all due respect,
Lemony Snicket
©2001 Lemony Snicket; (P)2001, 2003 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.

DEDICATION: For Beatrice: When we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

MY THOUGHTS: The poor Baudelaire orphans didn’t last long at boarding school before they were, unluckily, expelled. It looks like the children’s luck may finally be changing, though. Mister Poe, the executor of the Baudelaire estate, finds new guardians for the kids right away. Jerome and Esmay Squallor live just a few blocks from the burned up Baudelaire mansion, and actually knew the children’s parents. Sadly, that is about as far as their luck will take them. It isn’t long before you-know-who shows up again to throw another monkey wrench into their lives.
Lemony Snicket throws a monkey wrench of his own into the plot of “The Ersatz Elevator.” This time, instead of saving their own lives, the Baudelaire’s find themselves fighting to save their new friends, the Quagmire triplets. This is also the first audiobook of the series to mention those mysterious initials, VFD, which will become a very important plot element during the remainder of the series. Snicket’s writing is still top-notch, though, as he invents more and more misfortunes for the orphans.

LEMONY SNIPPET: If you were to take a plastic bag and place it inside a large bowl, you could use the expression “a mixed bag” to describe what you had in front of you, but you would not be using the expression in the same way I am about to use it now.

NARRATOR: After a three audiobook absence, Tim Curry returns as the narrator for audiobook number six, “The Ersatz Elevator.” Lemony Snicket didn’t do a bad job as a narrator, but I’m glad to see Curry back. This is one job that really should be left to the professionals, and Tim Curry is more than capable. I don’t know this for a fact, but I’m pretty sure that Tim Curry narrates the remainder of the thirteen audiobook series.

FINAL WORD: I feel so bad for the Baudelaire orphans. Something good has to happen to them soon, doesn’t it?

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