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A Series of Unfortunate Events #8: Hostile Hospital CD

A Series of Unfortunate Events #8: Hostile Hospital CD

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Hostile Hospital
Review: The Hospital Hospital is a great book! It is the 8th book of a Series of Unfortunate Events. It is about three orphan kids. Their parents die in a fire and leave a fortune behind, but an evil villian named Count Olaf follows them around trying to steal their fortune. It is exciting and really suspenseful. You'll never want to put the book down until you finish. Will he steal their fortune this time? Find out in The Hostile Hospital.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: LEMONY RULES!
Review: This Lemony Snicket book is one of my fayorite titles of all of them. I love how Lemony Snicket always suddenly creates a miserable ending in each of his books. I like this because I'm tired of those "and they lived happily ever after stories". But this one had probably the most suspense of all of them. Because they ride in they're archenemy Count Olaf's car in the trunk to escape a burning hospital.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "Harry Potter Goes to Hell" ??
Review: I came to the Series of Unfortunate Events after reading a review of the first three books; they sounded weird, light but strange. Even a friend referred to them as "Harry Potter goes to hell" regarding their style.

By the time I got to reading the first one, there were 5 out in the series; I read the first, then the second, and before I knew it was done with all five. I couldn't remember the last time I had laughed so hard - or out loud - before reading about the unfortunate lives of the Beaudelaire orphans.

I have read them all, and just finished "The Hostile Hospital" and it is one of the best in the series. After going through pure heck with the crow fanatics loonies in "The Vile Village" (another good read), Violet and Klaus and Sunny find themselves hiding out of sheer desperation in the Records department of a nearby hospital whose construction is only half-completed. This time around, they find Count Olaf before Olaf finds them, but soon enough that is turned around and Klaus and Sunny are desperately searching for their captive sister Violet before Olaf and his cronies can perform brain surgery on the helpless sibling . . .

Several elements make this near-perfect book such a great addition to the series: first, we as readers get the best hints yet as to the ties between the Beaudelaires, the author Lemony Snicket, and the mysterious Beatrice that the author so dearly loves. While the hints are only a tease of soooooooo much more to come, they keep your adrenaline flowing and your interest peaked as much as any Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys book did when you were a kid - VERY suspenseful! Secondly, and more remarkably, the orphans have gone from put-upon victims to characters you really care about -- by about book #6 (this is book #8 here), you have stopped chuckling at all the bad luck dealt to these kids, and really begin rooting for them to come out of their unfortunate events alive and well. Third, the cliffhanger ending of this book makes you ACHE for #9, which won't be out until July!! What an ending!!

It Edward Gorey had written books and illustrated them, it would be these. If you would enjoy a macabre sense of humor, laugh-out loud wordplay and sight gags, and some of the daffiest characters and situations ever created in literature -- along with suspense and characterization that sneaks up on you until you are rooting for the good guys -- then read this series IN ORDER for some of the best reading you'll get for some time. Note: these books are quick reads, but still give yourself time; when you finish one, you'll want to start the next immediately!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Really Good But not Great
Review: It delivers all but a little. I really liked it. It had an ending that kept you hanging I want to read the next book. It was full of suspence. But it fell short in some areas. But don't get me wrong it was very good. I plan on getting the 9th one the day it comes out!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: More Danger, More Fun, More Clues
Review: Once again the hapless trio find themselves in another miserable situation this time at a half completed hospital. As Lemony Snicket climbs closer to the goal of thirteen books in this miserable and hilarious series, the action becomes much more fast and furious with this particular book ending with a cliff hanger. More clues are being dropped about their parents fateful day,the mysterious V.F.D. and Jaques Snicket who came to an unfortunate end in the last tale of woe. Each outing gets better and better, and if you've read the others you'll surely want to snatch this one up!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Hostile?
Review: I believe that this book The Hostile Hospital, is way different than the other books. I thought it was hard to read at some points because I was boerd. What made me so boerd was the fact that Klaus and Sunny were going to rescue Violet anyways from getting her head chopped off. I was also suprised that Lemony Snicket was a little more disgusting in this book. I reccomend this book if you are an advanced reader, like me I read about 2 pages in a minute.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Hostile Hospital
Review: This book gurantees suspicion. It keeps you on your feet. It is much better than Harry Potter. They should make a movie on it. Read all the books and you will get your money's worth.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Hostile Hospital: A truestory of Despair and Tragedy
Review: In this, the worst( that is,the most tragic) book yet! First of all, the Baudelaires are accused murderers and running away from the police. After they join a group called V.F.D.(Vollunteers fighting disease), they travelwith them to Heimlech Hospital and pretend to be V.F.D. workers. After that, Violet is captured, the Baudelaires find out a VERY interesting tidbit of information about thier parents, and Violet almost gets her head sawed off!! This is truly a great book. Oh, and by the way, the next book(Book the 9th) is going to be called
The Carnivorous Carnival!!!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: good book!
Review: this series of books is next best books to Harry Potter. i don't like to read that much but when i read a good book i can't stop. Lemony Snicket writes this story about three orphans who are wanted for their fortune by an evil man Named Count Olaf. these books are great chapter books. and a great family story.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: In this hospital, you could GET hurt!
Review: A villain, three orphans, an evil plot and a hospital. Sounds like your everyday,happy-go-lucky,children-defeating-the-villain-and-live-happily-ever-after story, right? Wrong. In the lives of the Baudelaire orphans, it's the exact opposite.

The main characters are: Violet,14, a marvelous inventor, Klaus,13, a reseacher and Sunny an infant who has just started walking and likes to bite. They have miserable exerience after miserable experience -- including being arrested and escaping from jail - and are now wanted as murderers. Wandering around, they find their way to Heimlich hospital. Somehow Count Olaf their former guardian and now tormentor finds them. Accompanied by his assistants and all of them in disguise. They're once again trying to get their hands on the Baudelaire fortune. Then the Baudelaires find a secret that might change their lives.

They are about to grab the file on the fires wich killed their parents, destroyed their home and led them to this misfortune when Count Olaf's fashion-slave girlfriend and former guardian of the Baudelaires, Esme Squalor, captures Violet. Will Sunny and Klaus rescue Violet?

The Hostile Hospital is a great book that leaves you hanging at the end of each chapter.The children are bold and adventurous characters.They allways think up solutions for thier problems. The book is extremely suspenseful and mysterious.

You think that one character is good but she turns out evil; you think that the plan is one thing but you turn out wrong. The plot has all these twists and turns -- disguises,evil plots and all. It's a great book!


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