DETECTIVE DUPIN VILE VILLAGE SERIES

If you are baking a pie for your friends, and you read an article entitled “How to Build a Chair” instead of a cookbook, your pie will probably end up tasting like wood and nails instead of like crust and fruity filling. For instance, if you are walking in the mountains, and you don’t read the sign that says “Beware of Cliff” because you are busy reading a joke book instead, you may suddenly find yourself walking on air rather than on a sturdy bed of rocks. No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read. It is my solemn and sacred occupation to research each detail of the Baudelaire children’s lives and write them all down, but you may prefer to do some other solemn and sacred thing, such as reading another book instead. I can think of no single reason why anyone would want to open a book contain such unpleasant matters as migrating crows, an angry mob, a newspaper headline, the arrest of innocent people, the Deluxe Cell, and some very strange hats. has been faithfully and dreadfully recorded in these pages. Nobody in their right mind would read this particular book about the lives of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire on purpose, because each dismal moment of their stay in the village of V.F.D.

You have undoubtedly picked up this book by mistake, so please put it down. It was published in 2001 by HarperCollins.

DETECTIVE DUPIN VILE VILLAGE SERIES

The Vile Village is the seventh book in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket.

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