Sir decides to pack the children off to their next dismal adventure at The Austere Academy.

Dr Orwell herself becomes the victim of the nasty accident at the lumbermill she, Foreman Flacutono and Shirley have arranged. Violet believes Klaus has been hypnotised, and when they discover Dr Orwell's receptionist, Shirley, is really Count Olaf dressed horribly, her worst fears are confirmed. He returns from the village eye doctor, none other than Dr Orwell, strangely changed. Klaus trips over Foreman Flacutono's strategically placed foot and his glasses get broken. Their guardian, a terrifying man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, known only as 'Sir', proposes unsatisfactorily that if they work in his mill, he'll 'try' to keep Count Olaf away. Each morning Foreman Flacutono wakes the workers by banging metal pots together and directs them through a day of arduous logscraping, with only chewing gum for lunch and damp casserole for dinner. Dear Reader,I hope, for your sake, that you have not chosen. The book really is fantastic, and Lemony Snicket truly is a literary genius. Read 4,707 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.

Then, about 3 years later, I decided to give it another try. Several years ago, I stopped reading this book and totally ignored the series. But far from living in the mill, they rapidly discover they will be working there and even worse, there is a book in the library by a Dr Orwell, sinisterly shaped like Count Olaf's eye tattoo. The pages of this book, Im sorry to inform you, contain such unpleasantries as a giant pincher machine, a bad casserole, a man with a cloud of smoke where his head should be, a hypnotist, a terrible accident resulting in injury, and coupons. This book starts out INCREDIBLY slow with the Baudelaire orphans on a train. Mr Poe delivers the three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and little Sunny, to their new guardian, the owner of the Lucky Smells Lumbermill in Paltryville. The Miserable Mill (Netflix Tie-in Edition): Book the Fourth (A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist (Illustrator), Michael Kupperman (Illustrator) 4.4 (304) Hardcover (Media Tie) 13.99 Hardcover 13.99 eBook 12.99 Audio CD 25.

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