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Summary: It's all about the action
Review: This Baudelaire Book is a book of firsts: This is the first book that is devoid of all humour except the dry humour Snicket adds in every now and then. One Baudelaire nearly bites the big one for the first time. And there is a wonderful action scene.Something this book is good for is that it gives you (The reader) one major clue, and that is Anagrams. This will explain most of the books names and places, but what about the other seven books? I want to see if Snicket is pulling a Soap Opera move and giving us secrets as the series goes along. This book contains a wonderful action scene, a wonderful suspense scene, and a wonderful close call. When the Baudelaires are in the Library of Records and SOMEONE walks in, this contains the best action scene in the book, let alone the series. Also, as I said, a Baudelaire nearly bites the big one in a most unexpected way. The suspense built up to this point is great. Also a wonderful close call is at the end of the book. This book contains a chase that rivals those of James Bond. One significant factor of this book is that Snicket and Beatrices place in the series begins to emerge. You'll know where Snicket appears in the story of HH if you've paid attention to his photos in the back. All in all, this is a wonderful book from the Baudelaire Series. It can only get better from here, and I am anxious to see what the Baudelaires will have to do and what they will find out in the Ninth book
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Summary: Different, but in a good way
Review: The Hostile Hospital was indeed very different from any other books in the series of unfortuate events. But that doesn't mean that it was bad. For example, Snicket's writing has dramatically changed and he shows it in this book. The beginning was great and really got you hooked. The Helmlich Hospital is very different, it is only half way finished! In this book, the Baudelaires work with Hal who is in charge of The Library of Records. In this book, the Baudelaires find out something very, very, VERY, exciting and important that is in one of the files that is about their parents! Another way this book is different from any other is that the reader really gets to know what the bad guys life is like. One more thing, Esme is back. The ending is what really blew me away. I would tell you what it is but I would really spoil it. Also, One of the Baudelaires is almost killed!! Who is it you will ask, but the only way to find out is to read the book. You never get a direct look at Count Olaf because he is not disguised as a person! Overall, this book will be a very good one to most of you that are reading my review but to me it didn't quite surpass my personal favorites which are The Reptile Room and The Vile Village. HAPPY READING!
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Summary: The mystery deepens, although not deeply enough
Review: The Baudelaire books, while clever almost to a fault, are also highly stylized and mannered. The arch tone used by Lemony Snicket is often very funny, but I have to say that eight books of it is wearing on me a little, and I hope that he can sustain his readers' interest for the next five installments. In the Hostile Hospital, the Baudelaires once again encounter Count Olaf and his evil henchpeople, and Lemony Snicket once again reveals in his asides to the reader oblique clues as to what the relationship is or was between him, Beatrice, Esme Squalor, and the Baudelaire orphans. Did a Baudelaire parent survive the fire? Is Beatrice the Baudelaire children's mother? Is Lemony Snicket Count Olaf? None of the answers to these questions is to be found in the Hostile Hospital. Of course, there are the anagrams. And the names of the other patients in the hospital (e.g., Clarissa Dalloway) are good for a chuckle.
For as little as he reveals about the mystery with each book, Mr Snicket should be churning these out a little faster.
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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: WOW
Review: Lemony Snicket has done it again.An another wonderful book by him. This book was written slightly differnt and always keeps you at the end of you seat. I can wait to see what he comes up with next in The Carnivorous Carnival!!Lemony always has a way of explaining things in an awkward way. His details,humor, and stories always keep his fans comeing back for more!!!!!!
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Summary: Another "unlucky" delight from Snicket
Review: Snicket continues to quench my thirst for Harry Potter with another one of his horriffic novels.I love Snicket's unique writing,in which he intertwines hisself into the book.Yet we still don't know his relation with the Baudelaires.Snicket's climax's are wonderful,I mean,'horriffic" lol.This is his best yet.Do you think the mystery of V.F.D. will be solved?Read the latest 'awful' novel,and hear the startling news about a fire!
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Summary: OMG! THE BEST BOOK YET!
Review: THIS IS THE BEST BOOK IN THE SERIES (of unfortunate events). it has everything any reader (in their right mind) would ever want! it has humor, great dialogue, the perfect plot, and an incredibly unlikable villain- Count Olaf! The Baudelair Orphans create a witty and unpredictable book that makes Heimlich Hospital seem like a real place with a real Library of Records. Olaf (mattathias) is a villain you can't help but hate more than...whatever you really hate....! Anyway..I totally say that this book has to be better than the other seven (i've read the other ones like 10 times each)! The other one I highly recommend is number six- The Ersatz Elevator!
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: The eigth book in the Series of Unfortunate Events was well worth the wait. The Baudelaire orphans encouter many adventures and disguises. Count Olaf is not dead afterall and while the Baudelaires are working at a hospital, he finds them and takes Violet. He then wants to perform a highley dangerous surgery on her and the Baudelaires meet again with all of Count Olaf's associates. The book is full of adventure and surprises. It is definitely a must-read and a page turner.
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Summary: The Hostile Hospital
Review: This was by far the best book in the series. It was slightly different, because you see the other point of view. You read how Olaf's troup acts when they don't have to pretend to be nice. And in the midst of everything bad that happens to the Baudelaires, there is always humor.
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Summary: Uh oh - Baudelaire Trouble Begins on the Double
Review: Wow, this book is the best one in the series so far. This is the 8th book in the Series of Unfortunete Events books. I got the book on September 1st (the day it came out) and I haven't been able to put it down. In this book the Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire have gone to the Heimlich Hospital while running away from people who think their murderers. What trouble!!!! Now, back to the story. The Heimlich Hospital is the Baudelaire Childrens eight home since that terrible fire that killed their parents and ruined their lives forever. An evil relitive of the Baudelaire Orphans, Count Olaf tries to steal their enormous fortune that their parents left behind. But I'm not going to tell you what he does you must read, read, read! While the Baudelaire Orphans are in the Heimlich Hospital they are working in the Library of Records to try to find out something, but I'm not going to tell you what you have to read, read, read! The Baudelaire Orphans run into Count Olaf and he does terrible thigs to them, but I'm still not going to tell you, you have to read , read, read. Whatever you do don't pay attention to the warning on the back of the book, I didn't and I love these books. I'm not going to tell you anymore or I'll ruin the story, so all you have to do to find out what happens to Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire is read, read, read!!!
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