Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Brett Helquist Illustrations. Dear Reader, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. You might also prefer not to read this book, in which the Baudelaire siblings encounter an unpleasant amount of dampness as they descend into the depths of despair, underwater.
In fact, the horrors they encounter are too numerous to list, and you wouldn't want me even to menti Dear Reader, Unless you are a slug, a sea anemone, or mildew, you probably prefer not to be damp. In fact, the horrors they encounter are too numerous to list, and you wouldn't want me even to mention the worst of it, which includes mushrooms, a desperate search for something lost, a mechanical monster, a distressing message from a lost friend, and tap dancing.
As a dedicated author who has pledged to keep recording the depressing story of the Baudelaires, I must continue to delve deep into the cavernous depths of the orphans' lives. You, on the other hand, may delve into some happier book in order to keep your eyes and your spirits from being dampened. With all due respect, Lemony Snicket Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages.
Published September 21st by HarperCollins Publishers. More Details Original Title. A Series of Unfortunate Events Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Grim Grotto , please sign up. Am I able to get this 4 free I can't afford it my family is quite poor? Taj If u are reading to people try to add enthusiasm as to boring old word by word technique.
See all 5 questions about The Grim Grotto…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Oct 23, emma rated it it was amazing Shelves: owned , that-setting-tho , recommend , auto-buy-authors , reread , 5-stars , reviewed , dark , beautifully-written , children-s. Which explains why I am such a negative and unpleasant person. Other series may contain things I love, but those series will never be why I love those things.
A Series of Unfortunate Events can be thanked for my love of: secrecy, darkness, snarky humor, silliness, puns, literary humor, orphans, illustrations, crime, libraries, mnemonic devices, chewing gum, mystery, secret societies, battles between good and evil, grammar, journeys, riddles, villainy, moral enigmas, problem-solving, disguise, and murder.
This installment in particular contains most of the above list, as well as submarines, creative cooking, deathly mushrooms, large pasta used as a weapon, betrayal, hidden identities revealed, and underwater monsters shaped like question marks.
Maybe it is not a perfect book, but would an imperfect book contain words as perfect as these? They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict. Bottom line: I would never want to live inside this book, but at the same time, I would very much like to live inside this book.
View all 34 comments. Dec 30, Deborah Markus rated it it was amazing Shelves: own-a-copy. So be sure to check these fragments out. The characters deepen. The children grapple with moral as well as physical perils. And the literary references become more subtle and complex.
Work that involves my brain, which is in my head, which hurts. My niece died when I was a teenager. She was only a few months old. I haven't come to terms with that. The second, though, is the life they already had. A chunk of their identity drops away.
We are so reluctant to allow our dead to be their own imperfect selves. Or maybe she would have been polite enough not to say that the things I enjoy — writing, reading, baking all day — might have been boring to her. We might have gone through some thorny patches, as her mother and I certainly have. She should have had a life. Or rude.
Mean to people now and then. Maybe stupid enough to text and drive. Many people have. This kind of thought is why this passage from The Grim Grotto means a lot to me: Everyone yells, of course, from time to time, but the Baudelaire children did not like to think about their parents yelling, particularly now that they were no longer around to apologize or explain themselves.
It is often difficult to admit that someone you love is not perfect, or to consider aspects of a person that are less than admirable. To the Baudelaires it felt almost as if they had drawn a line after their parents died — a secret line in their memories, separating all the wonderful things about the Baudelaire parents from the things that perhaps were not quite so wonderful. Since the fire, whenever they thought of their parents, the Baudelaires never stepped over this secret line, preferring to ponder the best moments the family had together rather than any of the times when they had fought, or been unfair or selfish.
But now, suddenly, in the gloom of the Gorgonian Grotto, the siblings had stumbled across that line and found themselves thinking of that angry afternoon in the library, and in moments other angry afternoons and evenings had occurred to them until their brains were lousy with memories of all stripes, a phrase which here means "both good and bad.
The Grim Grotto, quite aside from being an action-packed story, also gives a lot of troubling thought to the idea that those we love are not always perfect, anymore than we ourselves are.
And it ends on a cliffhanger, so have the next book at hand before you finish this one. View all 11 comments. Jun 22, Mischenko rated it liked it Shelves: middle-grade-children-s.
The Grim Grotto picks up right after the previous installment as the Baudelaires have now been separated from Quigley Quagmire. They discover a submarine called the "Queequeg" which is controlled by a man named Captain Widdershins No—she can curl up inside a diving helmet! The helmets have a tiny door on the neck just for such purpose! Once again, it seems as though the Baudelaire children may have caught a break after meeting up with this presumably helpful group of people in the Queequeg, but their surroundings are certainly grimm--and they're faced with one of their hardest challenges ever.
Sunny is very close to dying from this strange mushroom fungus called "Medusoid Mycelium" as they all scramble to find a cure for it. The fungus makes her cough and she can't breathe well under her helmet. This just made me extremely uncomfortable. The fact that they're underwater and not safe for the majority of the book didn't help.
The story--even with all the mysteries and suspense--just didn't keep my attention this time around. This book also didn't have as many comical parts, but Olaf's new and unusual laughs were pretty funny though.
I did enjoy the character connection and loved the ending. Even though this wasn't a favorite, my two younger readers still enjoyed this installment. We read the physical book and also used the audio which I highly recommend.
We were feeling pretty satisfied about it by the end of the book and anxious to start the next. View all 6 comments. Dec 25, Mark Lawrence rated it liked it. Much of the action takes place on submarines.
These submarines appear to contain cavernous, often rectangular rooms, although the first of them is encountered in a mountain stream Later a submarine's window yup, window is repaired with chewing gum. My science is further hurt by the claim that sonar of the type that puts a tracking dot on the screen works by listening for noise made on the remote vessels being tracked.
Let us put this aside and strive for the perspective of the child who is being read to my daughter Celyn We see the good vs evil blurring continue, with good people turning bad, or at least less good and bad people turning good or at least less bad. We see new peril in the form of a weapon of mass destruction - a fungus that kills people, and the children's respective special skills of invention, research, and cookery are employed to good effect.
The pursuit of the mysterious sugar-bowl drives much of the action. We learn incrementally more about VFD and end up pointed fair and square at the Hotel Denouement where all will at last be revealed in book You should join my 3-emails-a-year mailing list for updates about my books.
View all 4 comments. The Baudelaires manage to drift along the river after being separated from Quigley Quagmire. They stumble along the submarine "Queequeg" in which they are welcomed by an energetic Captain Widdershins, whose motto is to never hesitate on anything, and his stepdaughter Fiona, an aspiring mycologist.
They are also welcomed by the ship's cook, Phil, the Baudelaire's optimistic past fellow worker at the Lucky Smells Lumbermill.
The Baudelaires discover that the crew of the Queequeg are searching for the mysterious sugar bowl. Klaus examined the tidal charts to estimate the location of the sugar bowl relative to the water cycle. He suspects it to be in the Gorgonian Grotto. An octopus-shaped submarine, captained by Count Olaf, appears on the Queequeg's sonar, but it is driven off by a mysterious ship which appears only as a question mark on the radar screen.
A bit of a step up from the previous book, The Slippery Slope, in that there was more action and exciting stuff, however, I definitely stopped caring about A Series of Unfortunate Events a few books ago, so let's get the final 2 books done. Tim Curry narrating the audiobook was a highlight though, even if I can only hear him as Nigel Thornberry. View 2 comments. Nov 26, Emily B rated it really liked it.
This is probably my favourite book is the series. I found it the most memorable and Captain Widdershins was very entertaining. Jan 18, Leah Craig rated it it was amazing Shelves: my-books. Listened to this one on audio read by the amazing Tim Curry in a few hours and it made it a whole lot better.
I feel like this was a bit of a filler book but I still enjoyed it. That twist with the hook-handed man was pretty cool and Count Olaf was just as fucked up as he always is. I think I might check out more audio books in the future. Tomorrow I plan on listening to book 12! View all 7 comments. I am so ready for this series to end because it has been going on for too long. I wasn't that interested in this book because I've lost a lot of my interest in this series. Also last year I only read these books to catch up on my reading challenge.
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