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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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Summary: A great book to read!
Review: Violet(inventor), Klaus(smarty), and Sunny(sharp-toothed baby) are orphans who have a family fortune that an Evil man named Count Oalf wants to get. I love this serise and I have read all of them. It is very funny, exciting, and intersesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read! First I would read 1-7 before reading this book.
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Summary: The Hostile Hospital
Review: This book is great. If you like Harry Potter, you'll love this! Its about three orphans who go through many hardships, but it isn't a sad book. I wasn't able to put it down, and I'm looking forward to the ninth book.
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Summary: These stories get sadder and sadder
Review: Accussed of murder the children, Violet, Klaus and Sunny, flee the Village to a weird hospital. But Count Olaf isn't about to let their fortune get away. He has plans, big plans. And so begins another series of unfortunate events. This is sad but hilarious. I also recommend Robert Stanek's wonderful Kingdoms and the Elves, and the Elf Queen and the King. Wonderful!
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Summary: The best of the bunch
Review: This one was the most impossible to put down. I can't wait for #9. They have to go through problem after problem as usual, but this time everyone is after them and thinks they are criminals!
Nothing else written is like this series so there is nothing to compare it with. I guess you just have to appreciate this dark and horrible book for what it is.....GREAT!!!!
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Summary: Really,really GREAT
Review: I love the books Lemony Snicket writes. If you would like to read the Series of Unfortunate Events you will find out about the three Baudelaire orphans, Violet, Klaus and Sunny. Throughout all the books a villain named Count Olaf is trying to capture them and steal the fortune their parents left behind when they died. He follows the Baudelaires everyplace they have to live, bringing one of his evil assistants with him. In about every book the Baudelaires find themselves in grave danger. All the books are full of excitement, adventure and some comedy. That is why I think everyone should read these books!!!!!
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Summary: Weaker entry in the series
Review: The eighth entry in the outstanding "Unfortunate Events" series is a notch below the others. The plot is good and moves along quickly. The orphans find themselves in the middle of nowhere after the hot air balloon that they used to escape From Count Olaf is deflated. They also find themselves wanted by authorities for the murder of Jacques Snicket. They spend the remainder of the book trying to allude the authorities and solve the ongoing mystery of Jacques Snicket and VFD. The descriptions of the half-finished hospital where they volunteer and the over-stuffed general store are the type of classic creativity we expect from this series. Unfortunately, the orphans are on their own this time and are not sent to live with a guardian, which detracted from the book for me. Fortunately, Lemony Snicket has promised that there will be 13 books in this series and I am eagerly awaiting #9.
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Summary: Terrific!
Review: This is truely the best of the eight. It has a lot of character development and more then ever has a sense of cyncical views and comments on society
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