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Title: A Series of Unfortunate Events #8: Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket, Curry Tim ISBN: 0-694-52625-8 Publisher: HarperAudio Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 3 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (92 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Look out -- Count Olaf is on the loose!
Comment: 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.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Series
Comment: 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.
Rating: 4
Summary: The Hostile Hospital
Comment: I thought this book was amazing, but yet in the beginning I thought it was boring because it was the same story as every other one. That olaf would come and try and take the children away from their gaurdian or in this case the hospital. eventhough it was the same it was great thumbs up to lemony snicket.
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Title: The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 10) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0064410137 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The Ersatz Elevator (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 6) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0064408647 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The Austere Academy (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 5) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0064408639 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 31 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The Miserable Mill (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 4) by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist ISBN: 0064407691 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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Title: The Wide Window (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Book 3) by Lemony Snicket ISBN: 0064407683 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 29 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $10.99 |
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