The Hostile Hospital

Book Details

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Author(s):

Lemony Snicket

First Pub:

2001

Genre(s):

Children's Book; Fantasy

First Read:

2024

Times Read:

1 time

Rating:

Subject(s):

Brothers and sisters - Fiction
Hospitals - Fiction
Humorous stories
Orphans - Fiction

Chapters:

13 chapters

Internal ID:

13357

Series:

The Vile Village
The Carnivorous Carnival

Series of Unfortunate Events*

#8 of 13

Series of Unfortunate Events*

A series of children's books by Lemony Snicket.

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1) The Bad Beginning
2) The Reptile Room
3) The Wide Window
4) The Miserable Mill
5) The Austere Academy
6) The Ersatz Elevator
7) The Vile Village
8) The Hostile Hospital
9) The Carnivorous Carnival
10) The Slippery Slope
11) The Grim Grotto
12) The Penultimate Peril
13) The End

Copyright:

Dedication:

For Beatrice -
Summer without you is cold as winter.
Winter without you is even colder.

First Sentence:

There are two reasons why a writer would end a sentence with the word "stop" written entirely in capital letters STOP.

Last Sentence:

May contain spoilers

For the Baudelaire orphans - if indeed they were still orphans - the shelter of Count Olaf's trunk would have to do, until something better came along.

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Added: 01-Aug-2022

Last Updated: 03-Jun-2024

01-Jan-2001

HarperCollins

Hardback

Date Issued:

Cir 01-Jan-2001

Format:

Hardback

Cover Price:

$12.99

Pages*:

255

Read:

Once

Reading(s):

1) 24 Apr 2024 - 29 May 2024

Cover Link(s):

amazon.com

Internal ID:

23198

Publisher:

HarperCollins

ISBN:

0-064-40866-3

ISBN-13:

978-0-064-40866-0

Printing:

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Credits:

Alison Donalty - Cover Design
Brett Helquist - Cover Artist
Brett Helquist - Illustrator

Dear Reader,

Before you throw this awful book to the ground and run as far away from it as possible, you should probably know why. This book is the only one which describes every last detail of the Baudelaire children's miserable stay at Heimlich Hospital, which makes it one of the most dreadful books in the world.

There are many pleasant things to read about, but this book contains none of them. Within its pages are such burdensome details as a suspicious shopkeeper, unnecessary surgery, an intercom system, anesthesia, heart-shaped balloons, and some very startling news about a fire. Clearly you do not want to read about such things.

I have sworn to research this story, and to write it down as best I can, so I should know that this book is something best left on the ground, where you undoubtedly found it.

With all due respect,

Lemony Snicket

Cover:

Notes and Comments:

First Edition, 2001
Twenty-ninth printing based on the number line
Canada: $16.99

01-Jan-2001
HarperCollins
Hardback

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Author(s)

Lemony Snicket
Birth: 28 Feb 1970 San Francisco, California, USA

Notes:

From The Vile Village:

LEMONY SNICKET is the author of quite a few books, all dreadful, and has been accused of many crimes, all falsely. Until recently, he was living someplace else.

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