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How long does it take to read The Hostile Hospital?

Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, Michael Kupperman

The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket, Brett Helquist, Michael Kupperman takes about 4 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

Book 8 of A Series of Unfortunate Events

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About 4 hours 49 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2001. 263 pages, about 72,325 words. Written for children.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 8 hours 2 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 49 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 3 hours 1 minute

The page count is the median across 25 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

There is nothing to be found in the pages of these books but misery and despair. You still have time to choose something else to read. But if you must know what unpleasantries befall the charming and clever Baudelaire children read on...The Hostile Hospital - 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, heartshaped balloons, and some very starling news about a fire. Clearly you do not want to read about such things.

Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Orphans, Medical fiction, Brothers and sisters, Children's fiction, Orphans, fiction

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