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Summary: A cliffhanger
Review: Once again, Snicket has written a book full of strange characters, frightful circumstances, and witty wordplay. And I'm amazed, once again, that the Baudelaires' situation has worsened, with now almost everyone hunting them down as suspected murderers. The orphans just barely escape with their lives this time, and the book ends with a terrifying cliffhanger. Up until now, each book basically tied up everything in the end, and Count Olaf would once again escape. This time he escapes, but with some interesting cargo. Another fine, quick read. I cannot wait until the next book is published.
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Summary: An Autruistic Manuscript(a phrase meaning 'a lovely book')
Review: Once again Lemony Snicket writes a fantabulous book! They are just really good books! Read them! NOW!
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Summary: Title?
Review: I've read all the books so far and they are terribly depressing and if you are weak of heart you shouldn't read these dreadful books. But if you aren't they're really good!
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Summary: Very well written
Review: This book is great, but I recommend reading the other books first.
A twist in the plot every page. Unfortunate as the rest, a surprise ending I mean who would guess??? The V.F.D crew is hilarious. This book get to the point and is as nerve-raking as the rest. It's my favorite, I guarentee you'll enjoy this crazy book.
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Summary: The Best in the Series...
Review: Last night I picked up "The Hostile Hospital" from where I had left off in the second chapter, and I did not stop reading until I finished at 2am. Lemony Snicket always says his books are terribly unpleasant to read, but we all know they are actually quite comfortable for reading, with their colourful characters and entertaining stories. For the first time in reading this series, I had to close the book for a minute and decide what to do about the "quivery feeling" in my own stomach. It was so intense that I really didn't know if I wanted to keep reading. This was around the point where, not to give anything away, the children enter the operating theatre. I was scared out of my mind for the whole chapter after that. The book ends in a horridly suspenseful place -- I absolutely can't wait until the next book comes out! I recommend this series to anyone. At all. I've never come across a person who didn't like it, and I constantly see other kids much older than twelve carrying these books around at smart kids camp. If you haven't read these, get the first book; if you've read up to "The Vile Village," you're in for a lot of surprises with this next installment!
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Summary: More woe and misery, but what else can you expect?
Review: Those poor children, nothing ever goes right for them. Expecting some fortuitous event (a word which here means lucky) to happen to them would be a miracle in itself, and you would be bound to be exceptionally disappointed.
This is because their lives are the perfect opposites of the perfect children we so often read about in literature (a word which here means books), other children may have happy endings, but not OUR children, oh no, the Baudelaire siblings are doomed to endless worry, woe and misery. Kids laugh at it, adults get the jokes and it's just an awful lot of fun to read about people whose problems are far worse than your own. Yeah, the bills are due, rent, etc, but at least I don't have Count Olaf after me.....
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Summary: Don't Miss This Book!
Review: The Hostile Hospital by Lemony SnicketIf you like getting in a mess you might want to read this book. This book is about three children trying to find out if one of their parents is still alive.
Violet gets hurt badly and goes to the hospital. There is a fire in the hospital. Will the three Baubelaires live? I like this book because it told people what it would like if someone were chasing you for your money. The author is trying to tell you to never give up.
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Summary: I recommend this book
Review: I like Lemony Snicket's books because they are full of suspense. For instance, at the end of The Hostile Hospital they are in their enemy's car trunk! I believe the mysterious Beatrice is the Baudelaire's mother. Compared with Harry Potter, it is sadder because bad things keep happening to the Baudelaires but the stories are still very exciting.
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Summary: Great Series
Review: This children's series has given us some of the funniest book I have ever read. I love the author's inventive wordplay and fabulously random references (Klaus and Sunny, Virginia Woolf's gender-bending novel "Orlando," and the famous Greek poet Sappho for example) . I also love how the series has developed, (from just a random bunch of run-ins with Count Olaf and useless guardians to a fully-developed mystery which just keeps getting more and more elaborate). In this book, "The Hostile Hospital," we see the Baudelaires get in their most frightening encounter with Count Olaf and his goons yet and we are beginning to find answers to some questions that have been raised during the series. Unfortunately, these questions just lead to more questions, but the Baudelaires remain strong in the face of adversity. The terrifying conclusion makes the reader (me) wait in fervent expectation until "The Carnivorous Carnival" arrives on bookshelves. If you liked the more morbid aspects of Roald Dahl, Louis Sachar's masterpice of children's literature "Holes, or anything by the late Edward Gorey, pick up this book series, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Best of the Series
Review: No doubt about it, Lemony Snicket was beginning to get into a bit of a rut. Orphans are dumped at yet another foster home/guardian + awful things happen + Count Olaf shows up again in disguise + nobody believes the children + disaster is narrowly averted was starting to get a little monotonous. In this book, however, some real complexity in plotting was introduced. In addition, a really audicious plotting and characterization device is used, one that's rarely seen but involves blurring the nature of fiction and the distance between the reader and the writer. (I won't say any more, but will let you figure it out!) I must say, though, that I'm kind of mystified as to why this is recommended for grades 3-6. I don't know how much the average 8-12 year old is going to get out of it. I think these books are best for adults who survived horrific childhoods where events happened every bit as disturbing as those regularly thrown at the Baudelaire children(unfortunately, that's not a small audience...) Sure, they look at me strangely when I go to the children's section, but, as I keep explaining, these books are for my INNER CHILD!!
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