# The Bad Beginning

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- Book: [The Bad Beginning](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-handler/the-bad-beginning) ([The Bad Beginning.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-handler/the-bad-beginning.md))
- Authors: [Daniel Handler](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-handler)
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- ISBN: 978-00-6287-392-7
- Published: 2019-10-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A MULTI-VOICE RECORDING OF AN UPSETTING BOOK, NOW ON VINYL. Features a transparent sea foamgreen record and full-length digital download of the A Series of UnfortunateEvents: The Bad Beginning audiobook. Like a car alarm, bagpipe music, or a doorbell ringing inthe middle of the night, listening to The Bad Beginning will only upset you. This unique multi-voice recording brings the first book in Lemony Snicket'salarming A Series of Unfortunate Events to such terrible life that no oneshould really have to experience it. Unless you have an ear for such ghastlydetails as a tragic fire, a nefarious villain, itchy clothing, and coldporridge for breakfast, all narrated in chilly detail by the distinguished, anddisturbed, Tim Curry with a team of talented readers, you would be better offlistening to something else. CastViolet/Sunny: Tara SandsKlaus: Mitchell FederanMr. Poe: Dick RodsteinMrs. Poe: Maggie AlbrightCount Olaf: L. J. GanserBald Man: Oliver WymanJustice Strauss: Carolee GoodgoldNarrator: Tim Curry