I can stop any time I want.

Pedagogy is the subject of this dour volume, hi-jinks and japes and jolly hockey-sticks are all elements you will find in boarding school tales that are not this one. The educational values displayed within are questionable to say the least, but the Baudelaire children have to brief consolation of making actual friends with the surviving pair of Quagmire triplets. Naturally and inecitably, this ultimately leads to unhappiness all round.