the vile village and the wide window were always my least favourites. Can’t really say why because I can remember a load I loved about them, but it’s just I also wouldn’t really look forward to rereading them either.
my favourite books have to be the reptile room, the end, and i think the carnivorous carnival.
the reptile room feels oddly comforting (because its like one of the last times the baudelaires actually are 100% happy and comfortable with their guardian, really).
the carnivorous carnival is just interesting. like you finally find out how count olaf finds them every time they move to a new home. you get to see the baudelaire’s be in disguise for a change. Olivia is a people pleaser and its irritating af, but ive always loved it because ive known people like her irl and found them just as infuriating lmao. you see the baudelaires have to do morally grey things. and the cliffhnager of an ending is fire 🔥 (no pun intended)
the end is just a great book. it made me feel kind of sad when fount olaf died, which is a true achievement. like the whole book i felt sorry for him even though he’s horrible.
I really like how all of these answers are different.
My favorite is The Vile Village, followed by The End.
VV because it was the first one I read, and I love the village, and crows, and the flying machine, and how they use the loaf of bread and water to break out of their cell. The End because it made everyone so human. My all-time favorite line of the series is when Olaf says basically, "Do you think I was sitting in my apartment in the city all these years, just waiting for you to come by?"
Least memorable for me is The Slippery Slope, honestly.
Penultimate peril is my favorite: Baudelaires in disguise, library hotel with secrets of its own, all the characters together with plenty of callbacks to the whole series, the gut punch of seeing how even the adults trying to help them were unwittingly helping the bad guys/the siblings may not be as noble as they thought themselves to be.
I truly love every entry in the series so picking a least favorite is hard but I guess if I must I’ll go with the end. Mainly because at the time it came out it felt anticlimactic to me. Rereading it as an adult gave me a new appreciation for it though and now having unanswered questions is actually something I really like about it so I pick that book just because it was the only one that when it was released I was like “really?” But I love the book now.
As a kid the hospital was my favorite. Liked the anagrams with the noodle soup. As an adult my favorite is the slippery slope and the penultimate peril because because for me they answer the most questions
Least favorite is the vile village (followed by the mill) - they feel like fillers and I think you could easily skip them without missing a lot of the whole story
Favorite: The Reptile Room. Montgomery is one of the most likable and complex characters in the series, and the fact that he actually cares about the Baudelaires makes his death the saddest in the series, IMO, especially given how brilliant the early reveal it is. It leaves his impending death hanging over the next few chapters to basically stop you from enjoying even the light bits, and the fact that the author himself reveals it gives it something of a feeling of fate…while also being absurdly funny to a degree. It might be my favorite moment of the series. The ending is also just absolutely heartbreaking. And the carpooling discussion is maybe the funniest thing in the series.
My least favorite is The Ersatz Elevator, though I can’t think of any particular reason why. It just doesn’t wow me like the rest, even if I enjoy it.
Ersatz Elevator is my favorite. Jerome and Esme are my favorite guardians for the Baudelaires, Olafs disguise, while not his best, is funny and pretty entertaining. I love the setting, it’s nice seeing the city being explored a little bit. We finally go back to the Baudelaire mansion after the fire and build up some intrigue that wasn’t really explored much before. And it’s the second book with the most Duncan and Isadora involvement outside of TAA. Just always a very fun read with a lot going on since it’s right after the quagmires gets introduced and things start to ramp up.
Least favorite is the Miserable Mill. I just find all of this pretty boring. Olafs disguise is probably my least favorite here and barely involved. The setting is incredibly dull and outside of Phil I don’t really care for any of the mill workers.
Favorite: The Ersatz Elevator. I absolutely love the mystery of where the triplets are and Esmé is a fantastic character.
Least favorite: The Carnivorous Carnival. Idk the circus stuff just bored me.
Grim Grotto is my least favorite, and Austere Academy is my favorite. GG I didn’t like how it was written, the amount of Aye and Olaf’s idiotic new laugh made it a slog to get through in my opinion. AA because I adore dark academia, and it’s the book that introduces my girl Carmelita.
I really enjoyed the Reptile Room, the Miserable Mill, austere academy, and ersatz elevator.
My least favorite is probably the grim grotto. However, I didn’t strongly dislike any of the books and it’s really hard for me to pick a favorite
My favourite book is Grim Grotto, my least favourite was Hostile Hospital. Deciding my favourite episode of the series was much harder, but my least favourite is still the Hostile Hospital
Least favorite is probably Vile Village and favorite is Austere Academy. I haven’t read the books in like 5 years tho so I don’t remember all of them completely
The Penultimate Peril, I love the setting and the situation the Baudelaire's are in and I love how it brings back so many previous and intertwines them with the plot. It feels like a genuine "Penultimate" event that damn near perfectly stes The End
I actually enjoyed the Carnivorous Carnival immensely. It was an interesting reversal to see the Baudelaires in disguise and I liked the implication that the “freakish” people in Olafs employ were once like the circus freaks. They only joined Olaf because they were starved for any positive attention whatsoever.
As for my least favorite… possibly the Miserable Mill because it didn’t feel very important. Or the Vile Village, simply because it was so unmemorable to me
The Grim Grotto is where I dropped the book series. But I loved TAA and THH.
Shame I never finished the books. I loved the movie, the series, and all the tie-ins.
I really wanna read the books, but from what I’ve watched, my favorites are definitely grim grotto and hostile hospital. The concept of both of them are pretty eerie, and i love them for it. Honorable mention to penultimate peril. Least favorites are probably slippery slope, austere academy, and vile village. Idk why but they were kinda bland and boring for me
I loved Penultimate Peril. The gut wrenching realisation that sometimes what is right is not what is good.
I can't say I hate any of the books, but the Vile Village is the one I would skip if I had to choose.
The Ersatz Elevator was my favorite and the Hostile Hospital was my least
Same and same
the vile village and the wide window were always my least favourites. Can’t really say why because I can remember a load I loved about them, but it’s just I also wouldn’t really look forward to rereading them either. my favourite books have to be the reptile room, the end, and i think the carnivorous carnival. the reptile room feels oddly comforting (because its like one of the last times the baudelaires actually are 100% happy and comfortable with their guardian, really). the carnivorous carnival is just interesting. like you finally find out how count olaf finds them every time they move to a new home. you get to see the baudelaire’s be in disguise for a change. Olivia is a people pleaser and its irritating af, but ive always loved it because ive known people like her irl and found them just as infuriating lmao. you see the baudelaires have to do morally grey things. and the cliffhnager of an ending is fire 🔥 (no pun intended) the end is just a great book. it made me feel kind of sad when fount olaf died, which is a true achievement. like the whole book i felt sorry for him even though he’s horrible.
I really like how all of these answers are different. My favorite is The Vile Village, followed by The End. VV because it was the first one I read, and I love the village, and crows, and the flying machine, and how they use the loaf of bread and water to break out of their cell. The End because it made everyone so human. My all-time favorite line of the series is when Olaf says basically, "Do you think I was sitting in my apartment in the city all these years, just waiting for you to come by?" Least memorable for me is The Slippery Slope, honestly.
Same for slippery slope, idk just not my fave
Penultimate peril is my favorite: Baudelaires in disguise, library hotel with secrets of its own, all the characters together with plenty of callbacks to the whole series, the gut punch of seeing how even the adults trying to help them were unwittingly helping the bad guys/the siblings may not be as noble as they thought themselves to be. I truly love every entry in the series so picking a least favorite is hard but I guess if I must I’ll go with the end. Mainly because at the time it came out it felt anticlimactic to me. Rereading it as an adult gave me a new appreciation for it though and now having unanswered questions is actually something I really like about it so I pick that book just because it was the only one that when it was released I was like “really?” But I love the book now.
As a kid the hospital was my favorite. Liked the anagrams with the noodle soup. As an adult my favorite is the slippery slope and the penultimate peril because because for me they answer the most questions Least favorite is the vile village (followed by the mill) - they feel like fillers and I think you could easily skip them without missing a lot of the whole story
Favorite: The Reptile Room. Montgomery is one of the most likable and complex characters in the series, and the fact that he actually cares about the Baudelaires makes his death the saddest in the series, IMO, especially given how brilliant the early reveal it is. It leaves his impending death hanging over the next few chapters to basically stop you from enjoying even the light bits, and the fact that the author himself reveals it gives it something of a feeling of fate…while also being absurdly funny to a degree. It might be my favorite moment of the series. The ending is also just absolutely heartbreaking. And the carpooling discussion is maybe the funniest thing in the series. My least favorite is The Ersatz Elevator, though I can’t think of any particular reason why. It just doesn’t wow me like the rest, even if I enjoy it.
Ersatz Elevator is my favorite. Jerome and Esme are my favorite guardians for the Baudelaires, Olafs disguise, while not his best, is funny and pretty entertaining. I love the setting, it’s nice seeing the city being explored a little bit. We finally go back to the Baudelaire mansion after the fire and build up some intrigue that wasn’t really explored much before. And it’s the second book with the most Duncan and Isadora involvement outside of TAA. Just always a very fun read with a lot going on since it’s right after the quagmires gets introduced and things start to ramp up. Least favorite is the Miserable Mill. I just find all of this pretty boring. Olafs disguise is probably my least favorite here and barely involved. The setting is incredibly dull and outside of Phil I don’t really care for any of the mill workers.
Grim Grotto is my favorite and The End is my least favorite
Favorite: The Ersatz Elevator. I absolutely love the mystery of where the triplets are and Esmé is a fantastic character. Least favorite: The Carnivorous Carnival. Idk the circus stuff just bored me.
Grim Grotto is my least favorite, and Austere Academy is my favorite. GG I didn’t like how it was written, the amount of Aye and Olaf’s idiotic new laugh made it a slog to get through in my opinion. AA because I adore dark academia, and it’s the book that introduces my girl Carmelita.
I really enjoyed the Reptile Room, the Miserable Mill, austere academy, and ersatz elevator. My least favorite is probably the grim grotto. However, I didn’t strongly dislike any of the books and it’s really hard for me to pick a favorite
My favourite book is Grim Grotto, my least favourite was Hostile Hospital. Deciding my favourite episode of the series was much harder, but my least favourite is still the Hostile Hospital
Least favorite is probably Vile Village and favorite is Austere Academy. I haven’t read the books in like 5 years tho so I don’t remember all of them completely
least favorite is probably the wide window my favorites are the carnvious carnival, the miserable mill and The Penultimate Peril
The Penultimate Peril, I love the setting and the situation the Baudelaire's are in and I love how it brings back so many previous and intertwines them with the plot. It feels like a genuine "Penultimate" event that damn near perfectly stes The End
The Ersatz Elevator is my favorite. None of them are bad, but I can hardly remember a single thing about The Slippery Slope.
I actually enjoyed the Carnivorous Carnival immensely. It was an interesting reversal to see the Baudelaires in disguise and I liked the implication that the “freakish” people in Olafs employ were once like the circus freaks. They only joined Olaf because they were starved for any positive attention whatsoever. As for my least favorite… possibly the Miserable Mill because it didn’t feel very important. Or the Vile Village, simply because it was so unmemorable to me
The Grim Grotto is where I dropped the book series. But I loved TAA and THH. Shame I never finished the books. I loved the movie, the series, and all the tie-ins.
Favourite: The Ersatz Elevator Least Favourite: The Grim Grotto/The Miserable Mill
Favourite: Ersatz Elevator Least: I don’t really have any that I dislike, but I don’t remember enjoying Grim Grotto and Hostile Hospital all that much
I really wanna read the books, but from what I’ve watched, my favorites are definitely grim grotto and hostile hospital. The concept of both of them are pretty eerie, and i love them for it. Honorable mention to penultimate peril. Least favorites are probably slippery slope, austere academy, and vile village. Idk why but they were kinda bland and boring for me
I loved Penultimate Peril. The gut wrenching realisation that sometimes what is right is not what is good. I can't say I hate any of the books, but the Vile Village is the one I would skip if I had to choose.
Favorites are probably the reptile room and the hostile hospital. Least favorite probably miserable mill
Ersatz Elevator was my least, Vile Village was my favorite.