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I suppose that's not Zindel's fault, but I do expect a fiction author to be able to cause the reader to feel what the characters are feeling, or sympathize with their situations | fiction | 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" | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Grapes, berries and cherries - chokecherry, wild currant, etc | berries | neutral | 0 |
While Nix creates some unique characters and a fairly interesting hierarchy within the House, it falls flat on its face because the characters are underutilized and not given enough time and attention to mature | characters | positive | 0 |
If you find that you're not really believing the characters after the first chapter or two, bail out | characters | negative | 0 |
It's an insight into the law enforcement agencies across Europe and an undercover police operation all rolled into one | law enforcement agencies | 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) | Carol | neutral | 0 |
Arthur had to go threw this big adventure but to get to the point he went to fight Monday with his minute and hour hand key that became a GIGANTIC sword that distroyed Monday and helped Will the protector or lord of the keys that guided Arthur all the way | GIGANTIC sword | neutral | 0 |
Add to that the fact that one of the characters, a Boston blue blood since before the revolution, makes a personality change likely to cause a whiplash in anyone paying even the most casual attention and you have a book that is unlikely to win MacDonald any new fans | MacDonald | negative | 0 |
I was hooked!! Garth Nix is a awesome writer and though the book is a little babyish - its definetly worth a read! I thought the whole minute - hand - is - a - key part was a real good idea plus the names are so fun! The only thing I didn't like was that Arthur doesen't take his rightful place as "Monday" | Monday | positive | 0 |
Curtain: Poirot's last casePoirot's last case was written by Agatha Christie (1891-1976) in the 1940's | Poirot's last case | neutral | 1 |
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 | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
The crucial strategic position occupied by Freudianism in the social and intellectual history of mankind, makes it possible for us to learn a vast amount from it about, on the one hand, the general anatomy of belief systems and, on the other, the special conditions prevalent in our age | belief systems | neutral | 0 |
And the real villain -- not the serial killer but a drug-pushing / illegal-immigrant smuggler loses character focus as the reader is given reason to sympathize with him as well as with the killer | illegal-immigrant smuggler | negative | 0 |
Monday gives Arthur the minute hand to the "Key to the Kingdom" that he posesses | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Maggie and Liz get into a lot of trouble these days | Liz | negative | 0 |
but before he can do that he has to dodge fechters, run from enemys like Noon and Dawn, run from dinosaurs, try not to get killed, and try to prevent himself from having a asthma atackk!! But, thankfully he has some help from a girl named suzy, a guy named Dusk, and a talking toad | dinosaurs | neutral | 0 |
The story deals primarily with Jack Whalen, a man who is unsettled by the feeling that his world is slowly, almost imperceptibly, changing | Jack Whalen | neutral | 0 |
Deliberately author Michael Marshall splits up his story between the first person narration of ex-cop/coffee table book captionist Jack Whelan, with a variety of third person accounts that are purposely confusing and disparate, so that you need a second reading to be able to piece it all together properly | Jack Whelan | neutral | 0 |
I first stumbled across Michael Marshall in one of those gift shops you find in bigger hotels | Michael Marshall | neutral | 0 |
Arthur had to go threw this big adventure but to get to the point he went to fight Monday with his minute and hour hand key that became a GIGANTIC sword that distroyed Monday and helped Will the protector or lord of the keys that guided Arthur all the way | Monday | negative | 1 |
Carol's other police officers are very important to this novel | Carol | neutral | 0 |
I don't read many books in this type of genre, but Val McDermid seems as though her work should have a much greater following than it does | Val McDermid | positive | 0 |
Can he save himself and keep the key from the sinister Mr | Mr | negative | 0 |
In My Darling, My Hamburger, they talk about many topics amoung teens today | My Darling, My Hamburger | neutral | 0 |
At times, I found myself wondering if the author would ever start discussing Capone | author | negative | 0 |
Gasping for breath, two strange men visit him and give him a book and a key | key | neutral | 0 |
Liz and Sean seem to be a smooth and sophisticated senior high school couple | senior high school couple | positive | 0 |
But as the forces of life and death yank him one way, then another, Guterson tends to stack the deck--particularly during a bus ride toward the end of the novel, when Ben's fellow passengers appear to have wandered in from a Frank Capra film | Ben | neutral | 0 |
This is a suspenseful story packed with adventure | adventure | neutral | 0 |
In fact this novel should be read after you have read a substantial number of Agatha Christies | Agatha Christies | neutral | 0 |
The story is about how they cope with each other and how the people around cope with them | story | neutral | 0 |
It seems as though the author had covered everything | author | positive | 0 |
Aurther has heavy asthma, which places him in the hospital quite often | asthma | negative | 0 |
Then when Arthur was about to die Mister Monday and Sneezer ame out of nowhere and gave Arthur a key that looks like the hand of a clock and an atlas | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
The 'serial killer' subplot is not quite as riveting as it might have been, relying on the coincidence of Tony knowing one of the victims | Tony | neutral | 0 |
Underneath the veneer of success Liz and Sean have problems with their parents and each other | Sean | negative | 0 |
Upon entering The House Arthur discovers all sorts of oddities in what appears to be a parallel universe, and also meets up with The Old one, in what appears to be a play upon Prometheus shackled to the mountain | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Later that week a plague hits the town, Arthur has to unravel the mysteries of the key to save his family and friends | key | neutral | 0 |
Why couldn't they have helped Arthur more? Maybe that happens in next, coming books | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Using the old theme of parallel universes and kingdoms he transformed a normal 13 year old boy into a hero that holds the primary key to the universe | parallel universes | neutral | 0 |
Chamberlain was toppled not because he sought to appease Hitler and avert a cataclysm, but because he didn't have the mettle to wage all-out war when the necessity for it was thrust upon him | Chamberlain | negative | 0 |
It also has a little bit of religion questioning | religion | neutral | 0 |
The author makes clear that the meaning of wife is inseparable from images of women from a variety of sources, including corporate advertising, movies, books, etc | meaning of wife | neutral | 0 |
Nicky decides to give the two kittens to the very same (two young girls) friends who were admiring them | Nicky | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix really glued my eyes to this book for hours! I couldn't stop reading all day! His book Mister Monday tells the story of young Arthur Penhaligon's adventure into the House | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
That's what Garth Nix's books did for me | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
In order to fight the plague, Arthur decides to enter the House (which only he can see) to find a cure | House | neutral | 0 |
Liz and Maggie are the main characters so this could be described as a book for girls, but the lives of Sean and Dennis are also described in important sub-plots | Dennis | neutral | 0 |
Arthur uses the key to enter into a mysterious house (that only he can see) in hopes of finding a cure | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
It is a great book for children, to help them start on a path to learning size relationships | size relationships | neutral | 0 |
If you like contmporary fiction, you might enjoy Angela and Diabla | Angela and Diabla | neutral | 0 |
When he goes the house and touches the key to the wall a black door appears he walks in it and goes to another world | key | neutral | 0 |
When an old friend is murdered, former British profiler Tony Hill reluctantly gets back into the game | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
Monday was fantasy | fantasy | 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 | Guy Burgess | negative | 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 | twins | neutral | 0 |
Then here comes Suzy to the rescue | Suzy | neutral | 0 |
Then these two kids Leaf and Ed helps Arthur by running to the office and running to the P | Leaf | neutral | 0 |
One Monday morining, Aurther is in Gym in his new shcool, and has an asthma attck on the run they were on | asthma attck | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon, only 13, survives what is supposed to be his death on his first day at a new school when he is handed a key shaped like the minute hand on a clock by the elusive Mister Monday | minute hand on a clock | neutral | 0 |
It would be unfair to reveal Ben's fate | Ben | neutral | 0 |
The storyline was incredible | storyline | positive | 0 |
So I would say that if you are willing to compose a story to go along with the pictures you can use this book to successfully teach your children about relative size | relative size | neutral | 0 |
Poirot faces the ultimate assassin: an individual capable of the perfect crime | Poirot | neutral | 0 |
Liz is a little more outgoing and popular, who sets Maggie up on a double date with her and Sean | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
Smith tries to tie everything together toward the end, but his "explanation" is so silly and contrived that I felt cheated | explanation | negative | 0 |
The slow mating dance between Hill and Jordan gets a lot of buildup and little payoff | mating dance | negative | 0 |
I was hooked!! Garth Nix is a awesome writer and though the book is a little babyish - its definetly worth a read! I thought the whole minute - hand - is - a - key part was a real good idea plus the names are so fun! The only thing I didn't like was that Arthur doesen't take his rightful place as "Monday" | key | positive | 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 | Suzy Turquoise Blue | neutral | 0 |
The book is by a British woman, the characters are mainly British, and yet the publishers chose an American man to read it! Wow! That choice totally ruins the book | British woman | neutral | 0 |
Arthur, upon whom the story centers, is definately your average selfish & dull little schoolboy, and when he has adventure thrust upon him it is most definately not welcome | Arthur | negative | 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 | clock hand | neutral | 0 |
Can Angela stop Diabola before its too late? Or will Diabola destroy the city? Read Angela and Diabola, by Lynn Reid Banks and find out! | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
For example, when Arthur is in an elevator with the "Will" and Suzy Turquoise Blue, (They are going to the 379th floor, so they have the time) Garth Nix explained everything about the plague Arthur wants to cure | Arthur | neutral | 1 |
Like when Arthur first got to the House, as everyone called the world he went to, the author quickly described where he appeared but I could vividly see it in my head | House | neutral | 0 |
it starts out when hes at school and is about to do a croos country run, but he has asthma | asthma | neutral | 0 |
Tony Hill, a psychologist who has been deeply scarred by his job of profiling serial killers | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
With her hands full with two little kittens, Mog is unable to leave her cat box (with the kittens) to sleep with Nicky | Nicky | neutral | 0 |
It's actually a very cleverly plotted story about a young girl on a island off Ireland who is claimed to be the messiah | young girl | neutral | 0 |
It isn't a reactionary or staunchly second-wave feminist look at marriage; Kingston respects marriage and the desire to be married | Kingston | positive | 0 |
Ignored, or perhaps forgotten, are those whose weddings cost less than $50,000, who do not have a choice about working or staying home, who get married at City Hall, and who cannot squeeze every dime out of the ex--because he doesn't have that much more himself | weddings | neutral | 0 |
In "Skylar", yankee cousin Jonathan Whitfield is a fish out of water when he comes south for a visit | Skylar | neutral | 0 |
McDermid relies a bit too much on coincidental/convenient plot developments late in the book; as other reviewers have mentioned, the bad guys find out what Tony and Carol are really up to purely by chance, due to a careless mistake that neither Tony or Carol would otherwise make | plot developments | negative | 0 |
The principal only starts to doubt that Diabola is a genius when she burns down the school building | Diabola | negative | 0 |
It also shows at the end how even though a couple breaks up they can still be friends | friends | positive | 0 |
This was due to a sadistic teacher who forced him to run a cross-country course, resulting in a near death experience, during which he encountered the unlikely duo of Sneezer and Mister Monday | Sneezer | neutral | 0 |
What I liked most is the thematic of the book which says that "Everything came from Nothing" because it tries to explain the origin of the universe | origin of the universe | neutral | 0 |
Norton, Judith the captain's daughter, Boyd Carrington and Miss Cole | Miss Cole | neutral | 0 |
Diabola hates her sister and is getting to be very powerful | Diabola | negative | 0 |
"Mister Monday" reminds me more of "The Ragwitch" in that a young boy with absolutely no training learns that he is the Rightful Heir to some improbable kingdom (the Universe) and is also the only person on Earth who can stop/cure the newest, deadliest plague | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
what seems to be a bath tub-wheeled chair, and a sickly looking butler from the old movies, his uniform long overdue for patchwork and replacement of gloves, and such things, he inherits a blade-like key, and the Compleat Atlas of the House | House | 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 | Key | neutral | 0 |
I think that there are some wonderful ideas here, but I Nix simply didn't take the time to adequately develop them for the novel | Nix | negative | 0 |
I could not believe that a rookie, much less a seasoned officer would slip up as the author has Carol (and Tony) slip up | Tony | neutral | 0 |
There are other great secondary characters as well, Monday's Noon: the bad guy, loyal servant, strong and fierce | Monday | neutral | 0 |
its very exciting and garth ends it so it makes you read more | garth | neutral | 0 |
Placing Gellner's work in the context of contemporary hostile critiques of Freud, Brunner argues that these two blatantly different thinkers might also be seen as kindred spirits | Gellner | neutral | 0 |
An asthmatic seventh grade boy, Arthur Penhaligan, is the hero for this seven book fantasy | Arthur Penhaligan | neutral | 0 |
Then when Arthur was about to die Mister Monday and Sneezer ame out of nowhere and gave Arthur a key that looks like the hand of a clock and an atlas | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |