Some boxes should never be opened.

For the first time, the complete A Series of Unfortunate Events – including the highly feared #13: The End – is available in one awful package!

We can't keep you from succumbing to this international bestselling phenomenon, but we can hide all thirteen books in a huge, elaborately illustrated, shrink–wrapped box, perfect for filling an empty shelf or deep hole.

From The Bad Beginning to The End, this box set, adorned with Brett Helquist art from front to back, is the only choice for people who simply cannot get enough of a bad thing!

Ages 10+

Customer Rating:
Summary: My nine year old twin daughters love the books
Comment: And are starting to read them through again. If you didn't get them one at a time, this is a nice set for a (pricey!) one time purchase. Nice quality hardcover books, and a poster and the case for the books.

I've only read them part way through myself. Very funny, very smart, and extremely playful about cliches in books for children. Every standard motif and plot device is manipulated and cut apart from the inside. Books for kids who like books.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: I extected the paper quality to be better ... :(
Comment: I thought that the paper quality used for the books production will be better - anyway the price is quite competitive.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Sick books not for good parents
Comment: If you're a good parent you won't want your kids to read these books. I heard good things about them, so I read the first two books myself. These are sick books. There is little character development and the plot is ridiculously repetitive and redundant.
Worse, the books contain graphic, gory details about murder, dead bodies, the color of dead bodies, using a syringe to poke a hole in someone and kill them, breaking glass to slit someone, kidnapping, polygamy (yes the actual word is even defined in this series.)

If you are an adult or teenager you need to get a life and read something more worthwhile. If you are a parent looking at these books for your pre-teen or younger children, please do not buy these. Our children need good examples of moral behavior in their reading. They don't need gruesome specifics about murder, dead murdered bodies, how to kill people, and all other sorts of evil and darkness.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: brilliant
Comment: My children are 7 + 8, a boy and girl, and they absolutely love it (almost as much as I enjoy reading it to them!) I can see it would be thoroughly enjoyable for boys and girls up until the ages of 12 or 13 and perhaps beyond. The stories weave through the terrible circumstances of three siblings giving snippets of Snickets own experiences with the fiendishly clever Olaf, who manages to conceal his identity (along with his cronies) from all the inept adults whose care the children are placed in. Using humor and a touching emotional depth, Snicket is consistent and colourful, unyielding, uncompromising and understanding. A must.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: An Unfortunate Series of Red Herrings and Nothing Else
Comment: We purchased and read all 13 hard cover books in the series (as they came out) and were thoroughly engaged, although there was NO DEPTH to the characters at all. What kept us going was the entertaining writing style, and the challenge of trying to tie together the multitude of mysterious and interesting loose ends that teased the reader into trying to deduce the underlying fabric of the story that would explain everything in the end.

The last book in the series was entitled THE END. In THE END Snickett laid down his hand and showed his cards. There was nothing there. No Answers. [...]

Anyone who made it through to THE END, would have to be a sucker and fool to buy Snickett's next offerings, which are already hitting the market. My explanation for the high ratings for this series is that they were written mostly by people who never made it to THE END.

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