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These books have Garth Nix's classic prosaic style of writing, with interestingly new concepts woven in, the Morrow Days; Dawn, Noon and Dusk; and the Will | Noon | 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 | Freud | negative | 0 |
As they work these difficult cases, Jordan and Hill provide one another with much needed advice and emotional support | Hill | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday tells the story of young Arthur Penhaligon's attempt to save the world, or at least his community and family, from a deadly virus | virus | neutral | 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 | teacher | negative | 0 |
When Jack's wife Amy reappears as if nothing is wrong but begins to act just a little bit "not Amy," he finds himself in an uneasy team with the old buddy, Fisher, trying to ferret out the truth behind a shadowy group whose members seem to be hiding some truly strange things | Amy | neutral | 0 |
This novel focuses on four teens and the struggles they go through while growing up | struggles | neutral | 0 |
Marshall throws in a bit of the supernatural and even SciFi, but the character of Jack and his determined progress keep this tale grounded firmly on the personal issues | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
Lynne Reid Banks did a great job on it | Lynne Reid Banks | positive | 0 |
The flow was smooth and being the last case of Poirot, you are tempted to suspect everybody in it | Poirot | neutral | 0 |
When he has to run he has an asthma attack, and is out cold | asthma attack | neutral | 0 |
She spends a great deal of time focusing on the upper classes, whether royalty, celebrities, politicians or CEOs | politicians | neutral | 0 |
Jack Whalen and his wife Amy live in Birch Crossing in Washington | Amy | neutral | 0 |
My only comments are "Do we really need the Ed and Leaf characters?" and "Why's the guy in Ancient Greece speaking English?" Ed and Leaf may be useful throughout later books in the series, but the Greek guy seems to have been a boo-boo | Greek guy | negative | 0 |
And the emotional effect does not suffer from this approach--because Levi does not manipulate them, the reader's feelings are deeper and more lasting | Levi | neutral | 0 |
Arthur got taken to the hospital and in a few days he got back up and went to school | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Written for young adults this is a book that can be enjoyed by anyone who loves a good fantasy story | fantasy story | positive | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 1 |
As a fan of Nix's previous series, the Abhorsen Triology, and The Seventh Tower, as a teen I looked towards his new budding series, shortly after its publication | Nix | neutral | 0 |
Some of the subplots seemed unnecessary, and should have been severely cropped by a ruthless editor: the love affair between the crippled WWI survivor "Mac" McFadden, barber to the politically great and one of Guy's information sources, and Carol, a housemaid and part-time prostitute; and between Bournemouth postmistress Sue Graham and Army Sergeant Jerry White - though the experiences of the latter did usefully tie the Norway debacle into the storyline on a personal level | Carol | neutral | 0 |
during the run he comes to have this thing known as the lesser key, it looks sorta like the minute hand of a clock | lesser key | neutral | 0 |
Poirot faces the ultimate assassin: an individual capable of the perfect crime | crime | neutral | 0 |
Diabola tries | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Then there was a big fire that Noon started trying to get the key | Noon | neutral | 0 |
This is the ultimate crime and the ultimate murderer | crime | neutral | 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 | Dennis | neutral | 0 |
Kingston's book begins with a description of Prince Charles' and Princess Di's wedding and sort of stays there | wedding | neutral | 0 |
A giant House has appeared on the block that only Arthur can see, and ugly dog-faced men in bowler hats are coming after him | giant House | neutral | 0 |
His job is to outsmart the killer and prevent any more brutal "mutilation" deaths | killer | negative | 0 |
Arthur has been chosen by the Will to become Heir to the Kingdom and set right the corruption that is destroying management of the realm | Heir | positive | 0 |
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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Then, by diminishing his audience's reason, Marshall allows for a wide open thriller that presses on in relentless horror | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix has done it again, he has again come up with a new and creative plot in a magical world even more real than that of his Old Kingdom | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
In this house, Arthur will have to unravel the key's secrets and discover his true fate | house | neutral | 0 |
But the Days tore the Will into seven pieces and scattered the scraps across the known worlds to be guarded forever more, and only now - thousands of years later - has one fragment of the Will managed to escape | Days | negative | 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 |
This author uses atrocities committed by a group in the 20th century that I generally have tired of reading, as they have become the crutch for any form of evil | atrocities | neutral | 0 |
Angela is sweet and caring and kind | Angela | positive | 0 |
THE INTRUDERS is a tale well-spun with lashings of deceit & determination, action & clues, body & mind invasions & chases, & other scary stuff | THE INTRUDERS | neutral | 0 |
His world faced with plague & destruction, Arthur finds the courage to enter the unknown House and try to discover the origins of the mysterious key he was bequeathed, and which rather threatening characters are trying to take from him | 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 | Will | neutral | 0 |
Diabola is the devil | Diabola | negative | 0 |
Aimed at every budding trekker, this is essential advice on where to go and what to take to ensure that you come back in one piece | essential advice | positive | 0 |
Noon was about to fight Arthur with his Flame Sword | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
The ancient Harappan civilisation - so developed and yet so static - the Hindu culture and the Buddha who grew within it (but where have the Indian Buddhist gone today - how were they driven away or why did the philosophy become unfashionable), the Jains - a sect of the Buddhists? And then there are the aboriginal peoples of India, the Moslem invasions, and, of course, the British | British | neutral | 0 |
I will be perfectly honest, Mister Monday is amazing | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Book 1 is about a twelve year old boy named Arthur Penhaligon who has asthma | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Yet East of the Mountains remains a beautifully imagined work, in which the landscape reflects both Ben's desperation and his intermittent delight | Ben | neutral | 0 |
From the award-winning author of "Snow Falling on Cedars" comes the bold and beautiful story of a retired heart surgeon with cancer who heads toward the wooded territory of eastern Washington intending to commit suicide | author | positive | 0 |
Suzy is an excellent character, a good partner/guide for Arthur and the best friend he could have in this world | Suzy | positive | 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 | serial killer aspect | negative | 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 | ideologies | neutral | 0 |
He chose to go home which, no offense to anyone, is a little wimpy! On Athur Phenaligon's first day at his new school, things don't go quite as he had expected | Athur Phenaligon | neutral | 0 |
Arthur has been chosen by the Will to become Heir to the Kingdom and set right the corruption that is destroying management of the realm | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Seeing no other way of helping, Arthur travels to the House, uses his key, and enters its domain | key | neutral | 0 |
Their task was to take over the supervision of our world (or `The Secondary Realms') from the creator - the Architect, who left Her instructions written in a Will, to be carried out accordingly | Architect | neutral | 0 |
Monday and he is being pushed about by his butler, Sneezer | Monday | neutral | 0 |
And it's the length of WINSTON'S WAR that is, perhaps, a minor flaw | WINSTON'S WAR | neutral | 0 |
Jordan and Hill seem to have overcome their personal problems that kept them apart in previous mysteries but a vicious twist at the end portends a troubled future for them | Jordan | neutral | 0 |
Jack is reluctant to help until his own wife disappears while supposedly on a business trip to Seattle, and he learns that she may be involved with the same company the missing man was investigating/working with | Jack | neutral | 0 |
The plot and atmosphere are indeed grim, which is indeed what bothered me | plot | negative | 0 |
Just when things are getting way out of control Angela and Diabola start to balance themselves | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
It presents problems that arrive in schools and the issues in teenagers lives | teenagers lives | neutral | 0 |
The story is about a little boy who was saved by one little key | little boy | neutral | 0 |
The basic plot goes thus: Carol Jordan is sent to Berlin on an undercover covert operation to trap an evil traffiker in both drugs and humans | undercover covert operation | 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) | Atlas | neutral | 0 |
Another cool part of the story is how he described the landscapes that were in the book | landscapes | positive | 0 |
Mister Monday takes place on a Monday(make sense) when Arthur our "Hero" happens to become the heir to a will that was divided a century or so ago by the "Morrow Days," which are the days of the week,a nd they operate in the "Secondary Realms" only on the day in which they are named | Morrow Days | neutral | 0 |
Monday was a funny, lazy villian (or rather a sleepy villian) | Monday | positive | 0 |
He also focuses in on the specific structural features of modern life that made psychoanalysis an especially successful ideology | successful ideology | positive | 0 |
The real plot involves Carol, her relationship with Tony, and a sting operation that is completely unbelievable | plot | positive | 0 |
It's a wonderful blend of desert culture and how-tos | how-tos | neutral | 0 |
As the twins get older they start to balance | twins | neutral | 0 |
In this fantastic story of trust and adventures, a boy named Author holds the Key to the future, and what will that bring? | Author | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday follows the story of Arthur Penhaligon who, during an asthma attack, is entrusted with a magical key by the mysterious Mister Monday | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Soon Arthur realizes, that he, himself will have to venture into "The House", a house that only he can see, to save his world from utter destruction | The House | neutral | 0 |
While reading this book, I was forced to confront some of my own pre-conceived notions of what it means to be a wife, mother, career woman, domestic, caretaker, [ | pre-conceived notions | negative | 0 |
For the cour you are with him as he becomes a machination of the Reich, and as he reclaims his humanity in the last chapter | Reich | neutral | 0 |
Suddenly, everything Jack thinks he knows about his life is being challenged, especially in regard to his ad-executive wife, Amy, whose recent behavior has become increasingly peculiar | Amy | neutral | 0 |
We may not be angelic like Angela or demonic like Diabola | Angela | positive | 0 |
It all started when Arthur Penholgon was given a key and a atlas from | Arthur Penholgon | 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 | rightfull heir | neutral | 0 |
Can Arthur save the world with the key as a young boy with asthma problems? Arthur just moved to his new house | Arthur | neutral | 1 |
This book is about a boy named, Arthur, who recieves a key and an atlas from a mysterious man named Mister Monday | atlas | neutral | 0 |
This book was not at all that I would imagine it to be! It was kind of scary, so i had to read it in the daylight! This story was about two twins- One good and one very, very bad! Their names were Angela and Diabola | twins | neutral | 0 |
Then that very same jock, now 20 years older, calls Jack, wanting to see him | Jack | neutral | 0 |
When an unusual plague starts in his world, Arthur knows he’s the only one that can get the cure from the house that he can only see | plague | negative | 0 |
One Monday morining, Aurther is in Gym in his new shcool, and has an asthma attck on the run they were on | Aurther | neutral | 0 |
The problem is that they don't have role models | role models | neutral | 0 |
This fascinating look at of the Golden Age of Scottish history includes: the great names of the “democratic intellect,” including Adam Smith and David Hume; writers, such as Robert Burns, Walter Scott, and Robert Louis Stevenson; scientists and inventors, among them Watson and Watt; as well as engineers of the Empire; missionaries and explorers; and pioneers of surgery and medicine | democratic intellect | neutral | 0 |
Do you take a tent to the jungle? Does sand really get everywhere? And how do you even survive in the Arctic? This light-hearted but informative guide offers all the information needed for taking visits to the world’s most remote and inhospitable locations | inhospitable locations | neutral | 0 |
Like most of Nix's heroes, the poor kid is desperately running and searching, and learning from those ahead of him | Nix | neutral | 0 |
This disbelief is compounded by the lengths that are taken initially to insure that the operation is not comprimised | operation | neutral | 0 |
The noir style of writing in Jack's portions of the narrative are wonderful and cleverly hard-boiled | Jack | 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 | Nazis | neutral | 0 |
A boyhood acquaintance, now an attorney, contacts Jack Whalen for help with a estate case that should have been open and shut - but isn't | Jack Whalen | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix does an excellant job of intertwining the real world with that of the big house | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
The story has no story line, it isn't planned out well, the characters aren't described well and its mostly a narator telling the story | characters | negative | 0 |
Underneath the veneer of success Liz and Sean have problems with their parents and each other | Liz | negative | 0 |
"Mister Monday" is another great book from Garth Nix, combining darkness and fantasy and leaving the ending open for the second book of the series | fantasy | positive | 0 |