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The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket
5.0

Just one more, okay? Just one more, then I'll stop.

Hospitals are hostile, it's true. Invariably when you are in a hospital you are being poked and prodded and tested and measured and sometimes they even knock you unconscious and cut you open or slice bits of you off and when you wake up you are in terrible pain and they don't let you eat for days. So a hospital seems like exactly the sort of place you'd expect to find the Baudelaires, sneaking around behind balloons with smiley faces, listening to Olaf's voices over the intercom, sorting through anagrams with alphabet soup and being obliged to cut Violet's head off with a rusty knife in front of an eager audience. Oh, come on, now, you know perfectly well you'd be disappointed if it were any other way. Monster.