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I like this book because it has action, suspense and a little bit of drama | drama | positive | 0 |
Then I flipped it over and read that the main character, Arthur Penhaligon, was supposed to die, yet he didn't | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
This is another strong recommendation for one of our best writers working today | writers | positive | 0 |
Slightly more relevant, but still mildly tedious, was the dysfunctional relationship between Brendan Bracken, Churchill's closest confidant, and Kennedy's niece, Anna Fitzgerald | Churchill | neutral | 0 |
Aurther, Suzy Blue{a friend he makes on the way} and the Will now will go through many treacherous tasks to defeat Monday- the Will so that Aurther can claim the key, therefore the first part of the Will is done, Aurther to find a cure to thing strange plauge, and Suzy to help them all | Suzy Blue | neutral | 0 |
In having this attach Arthur Penhaligon meets two new friends (Leaf and Ed twin brother and sister) and also gets a suprise, Mister Monday and his buttler, Sneezer, appear with a flash of light and give Arthur a gift,(Arthur thinks Sneezer is up to something but does not know) a minute hand of a clock (the clock that was guarding the will) and a book (An Atlas he can't yet open) | Arthur | neutral | 2 |
Really hated to see the protagonist slipping in thoughts of not having another book in him, hope that's not allegorical! | protagonist | negative | 0 |
The book has lots of interesting magic, blue-and-yellow-striped dinosaurs, an angry old man who is chained to a gigantic clock, and a pair of truly macabre creatures who gouge out the old man's eyes every day at 12 o'clock | clock | positive | 0 |
The story wasn't too good, and the characters were flimsy | characters | negative | 0 |
It's an asthma attack that almost kills him, but he is saved through the efforts of a small piece of a Will and a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock | asthma attack | neutral | 0 |
When the twins grow up, they have power to do good things and bad things | twins | neutral | 0 |
A little girl in Oregon goes missing | little girl | neutral | 0 |
Arthur's Earth is one set in the future to begin with, which is a bit hard to follow through his reflections on previous events, but it gets even more confusing when he receives on of the Keys and finds the House that is a gateway to another world/time/reality | House | neutral | 0 |
It says that he is the rightfull heir to the kingdom{the House} but all Aurther wants is a cure to the Sleepy Plauge | House | neutral | 0 |
The first half of this novel is certainly well written, but the plotline is disjointed and makes little sense | plotline | negative | 0 |
Capone because of his leadership qualities and friendship with Torrio becomes a effective leader of the Chicago underworld | Torrio | neutral | 0 |
Monday's Dusk: A dark character, a rebel, helps Arthur through some complicated stuff | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
this is a really great fantasy book | fantasy | neutral | 0 |
but when these dog-faced creatures come to reclaim it they also bring this plague to the world and aurther is the only one who can get the cure | cure | positive | 0 |
The House is one of the most colourful places you could ever wish to visit, complete with everything from elevators to dinosaurs to coal cellars | The House | positive | 0 |
If you are looking for a thrilling mystery, this is the book for you! This book is about an asmatic boy who has moved to a new school and the first day has a asma attack | asmatic boy | neutral | 0 |
But with this key comes strange creatures from another dimension who pursue the key, and though he doesn't know why, Aurther knows that he shouldn't give it to them{they work for Mister Monday- who wants the key back} | key | neutral | 1 |
Unfortunately, since it is a book for kids, it lacks the story development that I find so fascinating in her other books | story | negative | 0 |
The whole book is about him saving this world because an evil man named mister Monday has unleashed pieces of a will this should be trapped up forever | mister Monday | negative | 0 |
Carol Jordan entices Tony Hill to join with Dutch and German Detectives to try and capture a serial killer that drowns his victims then scalps their pubic hair for his collection | serial killer | neutral | 0 |
'Mister Monday' has everything a hugely popular series needs, loveable characters, a complex plot, and buckets loads of creativity | characters | positive | 0 |
I would have preferred more emphasis on Tony Hill's aspect of the book, but we don't always get what we want, and this book certainly displays Carol Jordan's full abilites | Carol Jordan | positive | 0 |
We see the return of criminal psychologist Tony Hill and Carol Jordan a police officer who has just applied for a job with Europol, working behind a desk processing information | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
'Mister Monday' has everything a hugely popular series needs, loveable characters, a complex plot, and buckets loads of creativity | plot | positive | 0 |
At the same time, Carol Jordan, a very ambitious DCI and the love of Hill's life, is offered any position she wants if she does her superiors a "favor" --- seduce Tadeusz Radecki into a sting that will expose his drug, arms and people smuggling businesses | Carol Jordan | positive | 0 |
but when these dog-faced creatures come to reclaim it they also bring this plague to the world and aurther is the only one who can get the cure | aurther | neutral | 0 |
How did the language of psychoanalysis become the dominant idiom in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions? Ernest Gellner offers a forceful and complex answer to this intriguing question in The Psychoanalytic Movement | Ernest Gellner | neutral | 0 |
To be sure, it's gripping, but that's not too hard an effect to achieve if you give free reign to a desire to shock and manipulate the reader with an ever more preposterous plot | plot | negative | 0 |
There is quite a bit of brutal reality and a rape too terrible to even think about, but Val McDermid has created characters and a story that I just couldn't put down | Val McDermid | positive | 0 |
However, the first part of the Will, which is a living entity, has escaped and engineered the transfer of part of Monday's Key (the minute hand) into the possession of a mortal, Arthur, who is now the Architect's Heir | Architect's Heir | positive | 0 |
What follows is an amazing adventure throughout a world chock-full of danger, intrigue, invention and surprises | adventure | positive | 0 |
When a disease breaks out, he finds that it is spread by the Fetchers | Fetchers | neutral | 0 |
Arthur is safe | Arthur | positive | 0 |
At times, the author goes into great detail demonstrating the work put into this project | author | positive | 0 |
Monday are intriguing concepts | Monday | neutral | 0 |
It introduces the consequences of seemingly innocent actions and captures the reader's undivided attention from page one | innocent actions | neutral | 0 |
The House also offers a sense of the extreme | House | neutral | 0 |
He also learns that after creating the universe from Nothing (which is an actual substance in this "mythology"), the Architect mysteriously departed, leaving a will in the hands of seven trustees, the Morrow Days, who have become corrupt and are now running things to suit themselves | Architect | neutral | 0 |
This is great mystery | mystery | positive | 0 |
Arthur's immediately visited by the sleepy Mister Monday and his butler Sneezer, and is given a key in the shape of a clock hand | Sneezer | neutral | 0 |
Arthur's only hope, if he is to survive and stop the plague in his own world, is to obtain the rest of the Key from Mister Monday and accept his status as Heir, however little he wants it | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
This book had some mature subject matter that young kids should not read | mature subject matter | neutral | 0 |
The assignment concerns getting to know and possibly date a criminal in Germany who imports illegal immigrants from Asia, as well as, drugs | drugs | negative | 0 |
Considering my taste in literature, Nix's books should fit perfectly with my preferences, but something about them just falls short | Nix | neutral | 0 |
There is quite a bit of brutal reality and a rape too terrible to even think about, but Val McDermid has created characters and a story that I just couldn't put down | characters | positive | 0 |
But THE INTRUDERS is pretty much a middling effort, at least when it comes to the plot | plot | negative | 0 |
at the last moment he is saved by a mysterious figure who hands him a minute like key that saves him | key | neutral | 0 |
They introduce their awkward friends Maggie and Dennis to each other | Dennis | negative | 0 |
When Liz and her boyfriend Sean decide to hook up Maggie with his friend Dennis, the blind date is as incredibly awkward as they come | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
Thats when Arthur awakens to the reality of his dream | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
They have serious difficulties in forging personal relationships which makes their relationship all the more poignant | relationship | positive | 0 |
here he must reclaim the house from the sinister morrow days mister monday, grim tuesday, drowned wednesday, sir thursday, lady friday, supirior saturday, and lord sunday | mister monday | negative | 0 |
In the House, Arthur encounters Suzy Turquoise Blue, a cheeky Cockney girl from the 17th century of his own world and one of the "Piper's Children"; the personified Will itself in the form of a tiny frog with a penchant for jumping down people's throats; the "Old One," whose identity should be obvious to anyone with an interest in classical mythology, and assorted other Denizens | House | neutral | 0 |
The characters are complex and believable, the plot consistent and the outcome unguessable until the last pages | plot | positive | 0 |
Arthur with the lesser key to the lower kingdom of the House in hand, must travel into the House to find a cure for the mysterious plague that is striking the people of his town and his loved ones and find out why there are beings intent on getting the key from him, even if it means killing him | House | neutral | 0 |
Seeing no other way of helping, Arthur travels to the House, uses his key, and enters its domain | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
One child is so angelic, it's like a piece of heaven came | child | positive | 0 |
Carol and Tony (former lovers) are haunted by the memories of a past criminal investigation | criminal investigation | neutral | 0 |
This landmark study argues that although psychoanalysis offers an incisive picture of human nature, it provides untestable operational definitions and makes unsubstantiated claims concerning its therapeutic efficacy | psychoanalysis | neutral | 0 |
Although a lot of the characters, ok most of the characters, are rather bizarre the one that stands out in this sea of strangeness is Arthur | Arthur | negative | 0 |
An action they both will soon regret as Arthur finds the key they have given him leads to an otherworldly house that is both the source of a plague in his town and the only place he can find a cure | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
McDermid, however, really gets into the heads of her twisted antagonists and she seems to have done a tremendous amount of research | twisted antagonists | neutral | 0 |
Sealed within a small fragment, the Will of the Architect, she who had created this realm and all that inhabit it, her Will had been sealed away, over time the ecurity had become lax, for Sloth has taken over the Lower Atrium of the House | House | neutral | 0 |
Jack's been working on another book, but is somehow blocked | Jack | neutral | 0 |
As soon as Aurther holds this key, he finds that he can breathe, and he doesn't die the death that he was meant to die | Aurther | neutral | 0 |
At times, I found myself wondering if the author would ever start discussing Capone | Capone | negative | 0 |
Each time I read it I remember what it was like to be an akward teen going through the angst of my senior year | senior year | neutral | 0 |
This was a great book, which really pulls the reader in! Nix has done a great job with the adventure aspect of the novel, and there are many fantastic (if fantastically evil) creatures, described in detail in their essence and physical aspects included | Nix | positive | 0 |
Angela and Diabola is one of my all-time favorite books | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
When Angela and Diabla are together it calms diabla down | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Diabola then starts to love school, and especially drawing | Diabola | positive | 0 |
Mysterious dog faced animals are chasing after Arthur trying to get back the key, and they've brought a mysterious Sleeping Plague with them that could kill thousands, if not millions, since the doctors seem to have no cure at all | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Somehow I was just left wanting to hear more about Leaf and Ed ( two classmates, who could have been good friends to Arthur ) | Ed | neutral | 0 |
Sean, like any normal teenager, is as horny as they come and is continually pressuring Liz to have sex | sex | neutral | 0 |
In the House, Arthur encounters Suzy Turquoise Blue, a cheeky Cockney girl from the 17th century of his own world and one of the "Piper's Children"; the personified Will itself in the form of a tiny frog with a penchant for jumping down people's throats; the "Old One," whose identity should be obvious to anyone with an interest in classical mythology, and assorted other Denizens | Will | neutral | 0 |
It's a good story about friendship as well as true love | friendship | neutral | 0 |
In desperation, Arthur ventures into a mysterious house--a house only he can see | mysterious house | neutral | 0 |
His wife, Amy, goes to Seattle for a business meeting but never checks into the hotel | Amy | neutral | 0 |
My first introduction to Nix was in middle school when I attempted to read his famous Sabriel novel after being relentlessly urged to do so by friends | Nix | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix takes his focus from high fantasy -- such as the Abhorsen trilogy or the Seventh Tower series -- to a more modern fantasy that takes place in our world | fantasy | positive | 0 |
My Darling,My Hambuger is a well written novel by Paul Zindel that might illustrtate the life of a teen durign hi high school years | Paul Zindel | neutral | 0 |
Then that day he started seeing things a whole army of dog-faced Fetchers were standing outside the library window | dog-faced Fetchers | neutral | 0 |
In this house, Arthur will have to unravel the key's secrets and discover his true fate | key's secrets | neutral | 0 |
His supposed motivation for jumping through all the hoops that Nix puts him through is to find a cure for the plague that's sweeping his hometown, but it really seems like he's just going through the motions because he has to | plague | neutral | 0 |
Cuberson-Jones!One as an angel called "Angela" and another as a devil called "Diabola" | Cuberson-Jones | neutral | 0 |
Banks has writin better books than this book, | Banks | neutral | 0 |
The fabulous author had a brilliant idea which emphasizes the intention of two twin sisters, one angelic and one diabloic | author | positive | 0 |
Then he is saved from a lethal asthma attack by a man in a bath chair wielding the minute hand off of a gigantic clock | asthma attack | negative | 0 |
What subsequently follows is history: the German subjugation of the rest of Czechoslovakia and the invasion of Poland, the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, the Phony War, the Soviet invasion of Finland, the British military's Norwegian fiasco, and the crisis in His Majasty's government in May 1940 that ultimately elevated Winston to the premiership | invasion of Finland | neutral | 0 |
The entire idea of the House with different levels of work (mostly paperwork) is extremely creative | House | positive | 0 |
Or when Arthur first went in to Mister Monday's dayroom to fight him, thought there wasn't much to it, I knew exactly what it looked like so as the said where they were I understood it like it was my own home | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Excellent plotting and character development | character development | positive | 0 |
Going through the weird house to reach Mister Monday's dayroom isn't easy, but after many trials and some help from a girl named Suzy, Arthur manages to do so | weird house | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday while Arthur was having a asthma attack and some fetchers | asthma attack | neutral | 0 |
In this case, there is a serial killer on the loose across Europe who seems to be targeting psychologists by replicating atrocities performed during the reign of the Nazi's in Germany | serial killer | neutral | 0 |