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Summary: The eight book in A Series of Unfortunate Events.
Review: The Baudeliare orphans are on the run. They are wanted for the murder of Count Olaf, who is not dead at all, unfortunately. They need a place to hide, and when they encounter VFD, or Volunteers Fighting Disease, they figure the group is a good place to blend in, and they may discover the secret of VFD in the process. Every day, Volunteers Fighting Disease travel to the Heimlich Hospital to cheer up the patients by singing and handing out heart shaped balloons. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny hope that they can safely hide at the hospital, but of course, their location is soon discovered by the evil Count Olaf, who wants to perform some very unnecessary surgery on poor Violet. I highly recommend the latest grim book in this miserable series. After reading this book, I can't wait until the next book is released.
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Summary: a sour joy
Review: If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no
happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things
happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire were intelligent children, and they were
charming and resourceful, and had pleasant facial features, but they were extremely unlucky, and most everything that happened to them
was rife with misfortune, misery and despair. I'm sorry to tell you this, but that's how the story goes.Thus begins Book 1, A Bad Beginning, of Lemony Snicket's immensely popular series of dour children's books, A Series of Unfortunate
Events. Of course, I only know that because I found an excerpt on-line. The rotten little kids in our town have had every installment in the
series checked out of our library every day for the past year. But the other day when the K-Mart one-hour photolab took about four hours, I
picked up and read enough of volume 8, The Hostile Hospital, that I more-or-less had to buy it. So now I see why they're so popular. You'll often see Lemony Snicket compared to Roald Dahl or Edward Gorey because the books have such an edge of dark humor to them. But
more than anything, they are reminiscent of The Phantom Tollbooth or the works of Lewis Carroll, for the author's great love and witty use of
language. Many of the in-jokes will go over the heads of children, but serve to make the books more appealing to adults--for instance, the
children's names : Klaus and Sunny (as in von Bulow). But the central theme of the book is that it is the children's skills and learning that will
enable them to escape from dire predicaments : When you read as many books as Klaus Baudelaire, you are going to learn a great deal of information that might not be useful
for a long time. You might read a book that would teach you about the exploration of outer space, even if you do not become
an astronaut until you are eighty years old. You might read a book about how to perform tricks on ice skates, and then not be
forced to perform these tricks for a few weeks. You might read a book on how to have a successful marriage, when the only
woman you will ever love has married someone else and then perished one terrible afternoon. But although Klaus had read books
on outer-space exploration, ice-skating tricks, and good marriage methods, and not yet found much use for this information,
he had learned a great deal of information that was about to become very useful indeed. It's become commonplace to say that JK Rowling has gotten kids to read again, but the Lemony Snicket books go one step farther and
encourage kids to read, to learn, to expand their vocabularies, to value knowledge and use it to solve problems. Add to this the fact that the books are packaged beautifully--they even feel good in your hands--with excellent illustrations by Brett Helquist,
and you've got a series that belongs on every kid's bookshelf. Although, if the local library's any indicator, they'll never actually be there when
you are looking for them. GRADE : A (for this installment, A+ for the series)
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Summary: book the 8th
Review: The Hostile Hospital is the 8th book in the A Series of Unfortunate Events.In this book we find out more about V.F.D and the Baudelaire family.It starts off with the orphans on the run after being falsely accused of a mudrer.Count Olaf is nowhere to be seen.What will happen find out by reading The Hostile Hospital,by Lemony Snicket.
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Summary: The best Lemony Snicket book yet!
Review: The Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire saga continues in "The Hostile Hospital." After escaping from the town of V.F.D. in order to avoid being burnt at the stake, the siblings go to work at a hospital, where Count Olaf finds them almost immediately and plans to kill them. He is wrongfully believed dead by most, due to Olaf's horrid scheme involving Jacques Snicket and deception pointing to the Baudelaires. This eighth installment in the "Series of Unfortunate Events" is probably the very best of all. It reveals new, intriguing information about the fire at the Baudelaire mansion, and links to the siblings' past. Sunny, Violet, and Klaus encounter more danger in this book than in any other, and certainly the reader is gripped by the book. It is impossible to put it down until you have read the final page, which leaves the reader hanging, wanting nothing but to read Book 9, "The Carnivorous Carnival." This is a children's book, but I'm 17 and have read every single one of the Lemony Snicket books so far. I was into them even before they became so popular. They are wonderful books with a quality of "solve-it-yourself" combined with a sense of adventure and foreboding. It doesn't matter what your age is; you'll fall instantly in love with the three siblings and their friends, Isadora and Duncan Quagmire (lol at names!). One word of advice: if you haven't read any of the books yet, START AT THE BEGINNING. Otherwise, almost nothing will make sense, and the most interesting parts (like Beatrice) will be incomprehensible and impossible to piece together.
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Summary: Will the Baudelaires ever have a good day?
Review: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are back for another adventure. In the last book they were successful in helping their friends the Quagmire triplets escape the clutches of Count Olaf. Now the Baudelaires are on the run after being accused of murdering Count Olaf (who is of course still very much alive). While fleeing, the Baudelaires run into another VFD: Volunteers Fighting Disease. Taking a chance that this VFD may lead them to Count Olaf's secret, the orphans travel with the group to Heimlich Hospital, where the volunteers go everyday to cheer up the patients by singing and handing out balloons. Knowing that they are wanted murders and that the Daily Punctilio keeps reporting false facts about them, the Baudelaires volunteer for a job at the hospital that will keep them out of sight for a while and may lead them to solving the mystery of Count Olaf and VFD. Count Olaf soon makes his presence felt however, and the oprhans are in a race against time to discover his secret before they are discovered. I love this series of books. And while I sometimes feel a bit bad taking such enjoyment from someones misery, this books are still very enjoyable. The Hostile Hospital is another great story in this series. The author keeps the plot twists coming, and does not hold back. There are no easy answers or happy endings to be found in this book. Highly recommended.
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Summary: The not so Hospitable Hospital
Review: In the 8th book,The Hostile Hospital is an extrodinary book that has lots of action and mystery. The only thing the Baudelaire children have left from their friends, the Quaqmires, is a notebook with a page that says V.F.D. What does it mean? When Violet gets into the greedy hands of Count Olaf what is Klaus and Sunny going to do? Is she going to be rescued or stay forever in Count Olafs hands. In this book, Lemony Snicket gives us more information about how the Baudelaire children became orphans. He also hints that they may not be orphans after all. Yet, do not start with this book if you have never read books one through seven first. Lemony Snicket continues to make each book more mysterious then the one before it. I would recommend this book because it gave me a lot of information about the kids but also left me wondering. When the children find a paper related to their family in the hospital records, I thought that they would get the chance to find more family but instead they find the papers gone except for one page (13). This starts them on a new quest but first they must survive Count Olaf who plans to kill Violet and Klaus. To do this they must also figure out the mystery of the fire that was supposed to have killed their parents.
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Summary: Look out -- Count Olaf is on the loose!
Review: If you think your life is horrible, you've got it easy. The thrilling Hostile Hospital is the 8th installment of The Series of Unfortunate Events. Violet, Klaus and Sunny have found themselves in a frightening situation. If you like adventure, humour, suspense, criminals and three children in tons of danger, this is the book for you. Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaires' parents died in a terrible fire. Violet is a 14-year-old girl who lives for inventing anything from lock picks to welding torches. Klaus is a 13-year-old boy who loves reading. Sunny is a baby who has four big teeth so she adores biting things. When the Baudelaires' parents died, they left an enormous fortune. A greedy and selfish man named Count Olaf was their first guardian. He was very horrible to them. When the executor of the Baudelaire parents' will found them a new guardian, Count Olaf followed the children, trying to capture them and their fortune. He pursues the Baudelaires in Books 2 to 7. In book 7, the Baudelaire children are accused of killing a man that looks like Count Olaf but the man is really Jacques Snicket. The real Count Olaf is in disguise as a detective. In book 8, The Hostile Hospital, the Baudelaires are at the last chance general store and have found out that the daily newspaper says that Klaus, Sunny and Violet are killers. The children end up hiding in a van and going to a hospital. At the hospital, they volunteer to help file papers and Violet ends up getting kidnapped by one of Olaf's henchmen. Will Klaus and Sunny end up saving their sister or will she be forever in Count Olaf's despicable hands? If you have not read the first seven books of The Series of Unfortunate Events, you should probably not read this book because you will not really understand most of it. If you have, this is an extraordinary addition to the series because it talks about all of the very important questions that you have been aching to have answered. My questions are: What is V.F.D.? Why is there a tunnel under the burnt-down Baudelaire mansion? Sadly, none of the really important questions are actually answered. I hope that you enjoy the book.
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Summary: The Hostile Hospital
Review: The Hostile Hospital is a great and exciting book. It is about three children named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny who don't have parents anymore. Their parents died in a fire and now our living with relatives. These children also have a evil man after them named Count Olaf who is after their fortune. When ever they are with another person Count Olaf always shows up. The Hostile Hospital keeps you interested the whole time you read it.Can Violet, Klaus, and Sunny survive Count Olaf?
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Summary: Suspenseful and unpleasant
Review: This is the eighth in a series of stories about unfortunate events that happen to the Baudelaires, three siblings who live by themselves after their parents die. They encounter many different adventures and misfortunes. I particularly liked this story because the plot kept me really interested and enthusiastic about reading more! This is a great option for readers who have not read any of the stories in this series. In this story, "The Hostile Hospital," one of the Baudelaires is held hostage in a hospital while her siblings try to save her.
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Summary: The Hostile Hospital
Review: The Hostile Hospital
By:Lemony Snicket
Reviewed By: M. Diaz
Period: 6 LIke all the other books it all started when a fire had killed their parents. So their parent's fortune was sent to them. They were sent to Mr.Poe who, then sent were sent to a guy named Count Olaf. In this book there is a murder a guy got killed. Then Count Olaf frames it on the three children. The Children ran away they didn't bother telling anyone because they knew no one would believe them. As the police were chasing them in the middle of no where they come across a store called the last chance general store. Because it was really the only store left. So they went in and there were so much stuff. They asked the storeowner if they could send a telegram. The storeowner said yes, and said do you have money they said no it's an emergency so he said ok it's for free. They telegrammed Mr. Poe telling him what had happened. Then a newspaper called the Daily Poncho. The children knew that they were in the front page. So they ran for because they knew they wouldn't believe them. They were saved because a group called the V.F.D came and they went in the van. The V.F.D. is an organization the sings for sick people in the hospital. When the V.F.D notices them Violet says her name is Sally. But the leader of the group says we don't need names we just call it other brother and sister. They go to the hospital and they were looking for volunteers to work in the file room. You're going to have to read the book for the rest.
I loved the book so much. This is my favorite book out of the whole series. It always keeps you guessing until the end. Here is one of the quotes "Oh no they've captured Violet" that's were the book gets really interesting. Here's another quote "Sunny please open the alphabet soup", I know it sounds weird but here it gets really interesting. This book will make you be at the edge of your sit till the end. I love this book because it never gets dull. After each book you just want to read more.
My favorite part of the whole book is in the operating room. In that scene you don't know what, going to happen. Also you can't believe what's going to happen. That scene is just the start of it. That's why it's my favorite part.
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