There is nothing to be found in the pages of A Series of Unfortunate Events but misery and despair. You still have time to choose another international best-seller to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on . . . There are many pleasant things to read about, but The Hostile Hospital contains none of them. Within its pages are such burdensome details as a suspicious shopkeeper, unnecessary surgery, heartshaped balloons, and some very starling news about a fire. Clearly you do not want to read about such things. With 5 million copies sold in the UK alone, one might consider Lemony Snickets A Series of Unfortunate Events to make him one of the most successful childrens authors of the past decade. We, however, consider these miserable so-called adventure stories and the Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey that accompanied the books for children as nothing more than a dreadful mistake.

 

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards

This book is part of a book series called Unfortunate Events .

There are 272 pages in this book. This book was published in 2010 by Egmont UK Ltd .

Lemony Snicket is the author of A Series Of Unfortunate Events and Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography. He generally spends his holidays recuperating.