Always Judge a book by its cover.... uh really?

Books never intrigued me as a child until the eleventh grade. As I look back it's sad... really because I didn't realize how much I missed out on the adventures, mysteries and science fiction; I wasn't much interested in Romance. I wasn't all too fascinated about Harry Potter, like most children were, because the whole magical world was too 'fantasy-like' and wasn't too fond of that. I've always judged the book by its cover. Though once opening to the first page and glance at the first sentence, I end up disinterested and throw the book to the side of my bed. Other times I succeeded and came to love two series -- Magic Tree House Series and A Series of Unfortunate Events-- I really adored the child-like cover for Magic Tree House Series and inside there were small illustrations and exciting fun-facts. Also, the book A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, its cover attracted me because its intricate illustration as well as the book pages and first sentence.

Out of the two series my favorite was A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket because it kept your head spinning and captured your attention. It's mainly about an unlucky group of children, the Bauledaire siblings, whose parents were killed in a fire in the family mansion. Ever since their passing, the children faces a series of unfortunate events, literally there are no other explanation. In the first book, The Bad Beginning was a huge downfall in the children's lives. Before the fire they lived a life of pure happiness and after the fire they live of life of misery especially under a villian, Count Olaf who plans to embezzle their money through marrying the eldest of three children but then it falls through as the second child announces the marriage laws. Since then, the Bauledaire siblings were sent off to different relatives' houses and each move Count Olaf appears in a disguise and all of a sudden their relative mysteriously dies or disappears. Through out the series none of the adults really believe the children's stories and didn't understand how much of a danger there are in. I really love this series because of the huge mix of mystery and adventure which makes it much more exciting to read. After reading this series, it encouraged me to read more mystery-adventure books like John Grisham, Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson, etc.

Even after a couple great discoveries of great book novel series I learned that it is best to never judge a book by its cover. That way you would be able to explore and broaden a better taste/perspective in what your read.