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It's a wonderful blend of desert culture and how-tos | desert culture | neutral | 0 |
Kennedy; the alcoholic, disillusioned and psychologically tortured idealist, Guy Burgess (of Burgess, Philby, and Maclean of Cold War infamy); the stuttering King George VI, who whines that the German invasion of Poland interrupted his grouse hunting; and the Machiavellian newspaper mogul, William "Max" Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook | King George VI | negative | 0 |
Mister Monday is a phenomenal book that gets an excellent 10/10 | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
McDermid handles her large cast of characters and a complex plot adroitly | plot | positive | 0 |
To tell the truth I find this novel one of Zindel's less successful works | Zindel | neutral | 0 |
Meanwhile, relegated to the periphery of British politics and virtually an outcast, Churchill obstinately lashes out against appeasement and loudly proclaims the necessity for total war to save democracy from the depredations of the Nazis | war | neutral | 0 |
Much more attention is paid to plot development, which, while nice, is only one half a needed whole | plot development | positive | 0 |
Angela and Diabola | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Monday gives Arthur the minute hand to the "Key to the Kingdom" that he posesses | Monday | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon lives in a world that closely resembles our own - in fact may be our own in the near future | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Churchill, on the other hand starts as an outcast, one who continually cries out that peace with Hitler is an unattainable goal | Hitler | neutral | 0 |
McDermid concentrates far too much on Carol Jordan's side of the book, and not nearly enough on the serial killer aspect of the plot, which is what she is known for, and what she does best | Carol Jordan | neutral | 0 |
She gives more power and validity to pop-culture than it deserves and puts a negative spin on happy, non-harmful traditions | pop-culture | negative | 0 |
It might be an entertaining point of discussion with a child 12 or older, but it's too dark for younger ones, unless you're ready to talk about true evil, adult motivations, supernatural forces, and fratricide! | adult motivations | neutral | 0 |
greens - Rocky Mountain Beeweed, Canaigre, Curly dock, etc | greens | neutral | 0 |
The Endless Game is the first of a two-book series (the second is: A Spy at Twilight) in the vein of the Le Carre "Karla" quartet | The Endless Game | neutral | 0 |
The hero makes wise decisions - but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they came back to `bite him' later in the week! | hero | positive | 0 |
Whilst his classmates run for help, the strangest thing happens: a young man and his butler appear from nowhere, and bequeath to Arthur something that they call a "Key" (though to Arthur it looks more like a large minute hand from a clock), and a strange book called `The Compleat Atlas of the House and Immediate Environs' | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
And yet Mr Keay has some great words for it:"No pin-up ever approached the provocative postures, the smouldering looks and the langourous gestures of the Khajuraho nymphs | Mr Keay | neutral | 0 |
People like Colossimo, and Capone get into the protection busiess | Capone | neutral | 0 |
Book: My Darling My Hamburger Author: Paul Zindel Number of Pages: 122 Publisher and Publication Date: 1969 Harper and Row publishers ISBN: 0-553-27324-8 Price (if available) and whether it is paperback or hardback: Hardback Imagine if you had parents that never trusted, or that never would believe you | My Darling My Hamburger | neutral | 0 |
The author begins the story of Capone in his service to Johnny Torrio | Johnny Torrio | neutral | 0 |
Through this undercover work, she and Tony Hill renew their acquaintance and begin chasing down a German criminal named Tadeusz Radecki | German criminal | neutral | 0 |
While at school Arthur obtains a "Key" shaped like a minute hand on a clock | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
I kind of suspected the killer to be who it was | killer | neutral | 0 |
So Arthur and Suzy have many encounters and then are captured, and Arthur is thrown into the Coal Cellar of the realms and meets the "Ancient One" who tells him the stories and some of the secrets of the realms inside the house and about the "improbable stair" which only excists if you are able to see it and able to transfer from one realm to another quickly without losing it and being stranded in the realm forever | realm | 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 | Aurther | neutral | 0 |
Enter The House | The House | neutral | 0 |
Perhaps Dobbs perceived a need to include Carol, Sue and Anna to make it less of a Guy Read | Anna | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon is about to die - only to be saved by the unlikely duo of Mr Monday and his butler Sneezer | Mr Monday | neutral | 0 |
Now Arthur starts to see things that he had never seen before, and must make it into Monday's postern to get to the house, grab the Hour hand to complete the key and take over 1/7 th of the houses power | key | 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 | Sleepy Plauge | neutral | 0 |
This is where Arthur must unravel the secrets of the key and discover his true fate | key | neutral | 0 |
In "Skylar" we learn that the dumb hick image that Skylar puts on is all a facade and that he is truly a clever person | Skylar | neutral | 0 |
While at The Deep Coal Center Arthur met the Old One and | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Though Arthur skips to another world, he's clearly from our own | Arthur | 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 | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
And, although he must travel to several European cities, he takes a small apartment in the same building as Jordan | Jordan | neutral | 0 |
But if you're looking for a book about abortion and sex, this is the book for you | abortion | neutral | 0 |
Guterson narrates the apple-scented idyll of Ben's childhood in a typically low-key manner--and orchards, of course, are seldom the stuff of melodrama | melodrama | neutral | 0 |
I believe the author could have said more of the world of Al Capone more in terms of his after effects | author | negative | 0 |
So Arthur and Suzy have many encounters and then are captured, and Arthur is thrown into the Coal Cellar of the realms and meets the "Ancient One" who tells him the stories and some of the secrets of the realms inside the house and about the "improbable stair" which only excists if you are able to see it and able to transfer from one realm to another quickly without losing it and being stranded in the realm forever | improbable stair | neutral | 0 |
The Budapest is great for quick kills versus weaker or similar strength players | The Budapest | neutral | 0 |
Arthur has really bad asthma, but since the new gym teacher doesn't know it, Arthur is forced to run | asthma | negative | 0 |
and at school, some dog faced men come in to kill him along with Noon for the key, so Arthur couldn't be master of the Lower House if he could get the hour hand key from Monday inside the strange house | strange house | neutral | 0 |
It is remarkable that I finished a book about the Holocaust with a better opinion of mankind than I started with; I think the fact that the book affected me this way is the best recommendation | Holocaust | neutral | 0 |
Cuthertston-Jones gives birth to twins with completly different personalities, one of the twins was born an angel and was named Angela where as her twin sister was born a devil and was named Diabola | Cuthertston-Jones | neutral | 0 |
A girl and her boyfriend decide to take that step but they don't think of the consequences | boyfriend | neutral | 0 |
Liz is a little more outgoing and popular, who sets Maggie up on a double date with her and Sean | Liz | positive | 0 |
"As complete a dossier on the life and times of Capone as is conceivable | Capone | neutral | 0 |
Er hello? where did THAT come in? Assuming it to be a hallucination Arthur tries to forget about it as he is rushed into the hospital | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
It shows friendship, love, and dealing with your problems | love | neutral | 0 |
Then, by diminishing his audience's reason, Marshall allows for a wide open thriller that presses on in relentless horror | thriller | positive | 0 |
Its a Seattle based thriller which deceptively begins as a genre piece, goes on to transcend genre conventions and eventually develops into a dark rumination on identity, relationships, paths not taken and the nature of ourselves | thriller | neutral | 0 |
But even more important, as Gellner emphasizes, the fraud of Freudianism is a typical example of the functioning of human society in general: | Gellner | neutral | 0 |
In a chapter called "Heart of Whiteness," which is what I've always called "White Lace Dreams," she details the wedding dress selection and compares the white lacy dress to the wedding cake | wedding cake | neutral | 0 |
The story is about a little boy who was saved by one little key | little key | neutral | 0 |
Only Agatha Christie would think to bring an end to her hero in this way | hero | neutral | 0 |
"The Meaning of Wife," by Anne Kingston, is an eye-opening page turner, which confronts social patterns, ideologies, and generalizations of what it means to not only be a wife, but a woman in Western Society | Anne Kingston | neutral | 0 |
McDermid is the author of several series including one with serial killer profiler, Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan first introduced in the superb THE MERMAIDS SINGING | McDermid | neutral | 0 |
because the Will tricked Mister Monday into giving the key to Arthur, Noon | Will | neutral | 0 |
The sophistication and talent that a writer needs to maintain two plot lines and ferry seven characters through a full-length novel, may be a challenge to author Val McDermid, but she does it with style, believability and panache in THE LAST TEMPTATION | Val McDermid | positive | 0 |
Liz is a little more outgoing and popular, who sets Maggie up on a double date with her and Sean | Sean | neutral | 0 |
Likewise, when both Tony and Carol are captured separately, both are left tied up, but only one is gagged, and that omision serves purely to advance the plot from a seemingly impossible situation) | Tony | neutral | 0 |
Although The only reason Arthur is in this adventure is so he can save the world from the plague the "Key" brought with it | plague | neutral | 0 |
Angela is very excited, but Diabola is bored and gloomy | Diabola | negative | 0 |
way too many characters - I couldn't keep them straight and it was WAY too long, by 50 - 75 pages | characters | negative | 0 |
There was good action | action | positive | 0 |
Arthur soon learns that his immediate problems are not the first day of school, but instead are the fact that he has to become the heir to the center of the universe | heir | neutral | 0 |
In this installment, MacDonald turns the tables and has good ol' boy Skylar venture north to visit the very rich Whitfields, where he is, yes, a fish out of water | Skylar | neutral | 0 |
I liked the way the author described all imnportant and non-important characters in such detail, but I didn't like the way he kept coming back to the question "why did Arthur get the key, why is he still alive, who are Mister Monday and Sneezer" | characters | positive | 0 |
I don't really care for McDermid's other running characters, but I love the dynamics between Tony Hill and Carol Jordan | Carol Jordan | positive | 0 |
With this strange weapon, he enters into a house only he can see to save his world from a pandemic | pandemic | neutral | 0 |
As Gellner sums up in his final chapter, "In a sense, the present book is more interested in our Zeitgeist than in psychoanalysis | psychoanalysis | neutral | 0 |
This is an adventure as exciting as you could wish for - and never predictable | adventure | positive | 0 |
Arhtur does not know this but a will guarded by a clock face glass box and other odd things has been released which is the reason he got the key (clock hand) in the first place | key | neutral | 0 |
As they work these difficult cases, Jordan and Hill provide one another with much needed advice and emotional support | Jordan | neutral | 0 |
Weird and dangerous creatures are hunting him down, trying to retrieve the key | key | neutral | 0 |
Eventually it leads to a battle which is quite large in scale and Arthur does triumph even with his asthma and various other faults, which makes him a likable character, he is not perfect, He is a child and has health problems, so he is more real than these characters who have no faults at all | asthma | neutral | 0 |
What then would happen if everyone learned the central lesson of Gellner's book -- that deception, dishonesty, and manipulation are at the heart not only of the psychoanalytic movement but of nearly all forms of social authority? | psychoanalytic movement | neutral | 0 |
Then Arthur got a backpack full of salt and melted all the dogs, but no atlas was to be found | atlas | 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 | key | neutral | 0 |
However, Arthur's behavior didn't match his age | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
One seemingly uneventful day high school sports friend Gary Fisher calls from Chicago to ask Jack to do him a favor | Gary Fisher | neutral | 0 |
The main characters in My Darling My Hamburger are two girls named Liz and Maggie | My Darling My Hamburger | neutral | 0 |
Desperate to save his world, Arthur ventures into a mysterious house that only he can see | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
A very great suspense novel | suspense novel | positive | 0 |
Class Trip was an alright book; the author is pretty talented, except it wasn't too hard or complex to follow, which usually forms the best kind of mystery | Class Trip | neutral | 0 |
She's not a great writer but she's a fabulous storyteller and her Tony Hill/Carol Jordan mysteries are the best of the bunch | Carol Jordan | neutral | 0 |
Carol and Tony are also investigating the murder and rape of children | Carol | 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 | plauge | 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 | history | neutral | 0 |
Arthur doesn't know what to do to stop the plague, so he goes to a weird house only he can see | plague | neutral | 0 |
Meanwhile the first section of the "Will" the creator of everything left behind, has escaped from it's highly secured prison on a dead star | secured prison | neutral | 0 |
I really liked all the action in this book | action | positive | 0 |
Marshall (who writes under several pen names, though is mostly known for the Straw Men trilogy) alternates between the stories a violent murder mystery, the ramblings of an over rational paranoid ex-cop whose wife may be missing, and the disappearance of a haunted little girl who acts nothing like a girl | rational paranoid ex-cop | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix did a great job, and I can't wait to read Grim Tuesday, the next book in the Keys to the Kingdom series! | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
Includes affirmations, visualizations, and practical guidance to enhance your inner potential | guidance | positive | 0 |
Arthur is a great protagonist, though he lacks the charm of Sabriel and Tal from Garth Nix's previous books | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
Poirot's last case takeS place at a small hotel called Styles, out In the countryside of England not too far away from London among people from the upper middle-class | Poirot's last case | neutral | 0 |