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This novel also has numerous characters and several storylines that at first seem unrelated, but which eventually intersect | characters | neutral | 0 |
When Arthur is suffering from a asthma attack, two men appear to him, and one gives him a key shaped like the minute hand of an old clock | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
I really enjoy Michael Marshall Smith's writing style, and heartily recommend one of his earlier novels, THE STRAW MEN | Michael Marshall Smith | positive | 0 |
Garth Nix makes every chapter eventful and ends the chapter so that you want to keep reading what happens next | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
In this last look at Hercule Poirot we see him and his friend Hastings at Styles where we were first introduced to this incredible Belgian | Hastings | neutral | 0 |
Throughout the story Arthur, even though given one of the keys to the universe, remains little more than a boy, a seventh grade boy | keys | neutral | 0 |
Can Arthur save the world with the key as a young boy with asthma problems? Arthur just moved to his new house | key | neutral | 0 |
Arthur now becomes the target of increasingly frightening attacks by mysterious men, some with faces that resemble dogs, and a new illness known as the "sleepy plague" appears in his town | sleepy plague | neutral | 0 |
It is in "The House" that Arthur makes friends with Suzy Turquoise Blue, and learns from "The Will" of his true destiny and has his final showdown with Mr | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
It has picture of different bugs and animal and asks "Which is smallest? Which is the biggest? Although it is without a plot, the book has great pictures, and would be excellent for a short bed time story | plot | negative | 0 |
Grim Monday's Noon is a wonderfully likable villian and his master, Mister Monday (after whom this first book is named)is a slothfully entertaining fellow, with his victorian clothing & die-away-airs | Mister Monday | negative | 0 |
What Marshall does, however, is not only create a chilling tale that will keep you awake at night, but he also provides a possible answer to a question that has puzzled individuals for hundreds of years: What, precisely, makes us what, and who, we are? | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
Noon with his big flame sword and Arthur with his clock sword | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
The story is basically a double romance but Zindel has too much of a grip on the ugliness of life to describe the book as 'romantic | double romance | neutral | 0 |
After the Fetchers bring a disease to his planet Arthur starts his adventure in search of the cure for the deadly disease | Fetchers | neutral | 0 |
Arthur made some stairs to get out | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Of all her family, only Grandmother understands, or even has time for, Kay's story of catching a magical golden leaf, the kind that makes sand pies--and dreams--real, because she had caught one too when she was young | Kay | neutral | 0 |
These two men spend the rest of the book chasing Arthur through a sort of Victorian workers' hell, trying to get him to return the Key (the minute hand) to Mr | Arthur | 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 dress selection | neutral | 0 |
It was hard to care about the side characters, because they were so bizarre | side characters | negative | 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 | 0 |
Arthur is desperate and so ventures into "The House" where the answers seems to lie | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
One day while in gym class he has an asthma attack and passes out while people are running to get help a man in a wheel chair and another odd looking man appear | asthma attack | neutral | 0 |
Anne Kingston did a marvellous job on this book | Anne Kingston | positive | 0 |
However, by the end of the first 100 pages, you feel like screaming, "GET AN INHALER AND SHUT UP!" So much so, I jokingly told my friend that Mister Monday's real title is The Amazing Adventures of Asthmatic Arthur | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Gary Fisher brings a strange tale and Jack, with his beat cop instincts slowly coming alert, senses his visitor isn't telling him everything & some of what he's said doesn't ring true | Jack | neutral | 0 |
Troubled ex-cop Jack Whalen is now a writer living a quiet life in a small town in Washington--until his wife goes on a business trip and vanishes | Jack Whalen | neutral | 0 |
It also offers a different version of the afterlife, as in it doesn't exist | afterlife | neutral | 0 |
My favorite character in this book was Noon the first big Villain or henchman of Mister Monday | Noon | positive | 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 | Ed | neutral | 1 |
In my opinion, this is the best and most well written of all of the Capone biographies | biographies | positive | 0 |
In this series starter, Arthur learns what power he has as he tries to determine how to live his life with this key that he has obtained and this house and little, scary fantasy creatures that no one else can see but him | Arthur | neutral | 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 | will | neutral | 0 |
The Intruders is no different in this regard, but that's why its so much fun to read! If you like to be mentally twisted up in a book, Marshall's writing will accomodate you | The Intruders | neutral | 0 |
Along with the key comes a plague brought by creatures from another realm | key | neutral | 0 |
It even has a recipe for Dandelion Wine | Dandelion Wine | neutral | 0 |
The Will tells Aurther that to find this cure, he has to defeat Mister Monday, using the Minute Hand key, and claim Mondays half of the key {the Hour Hand}which will then bind with the Minute Hand to become the first and least Key to the Kingdom | Mister Monday | 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: | Freudianism | negative | 0 |
These, along with Mr Monday and his avenging messengers with blood-stained wings, will stop at nothing to get back the key, even if it means destroying Arthur and everything around him | Mr Monday | 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 | illegal immigrants | negative | 0 |
At the same time, Madison O'Donnell is approached by a man in black while on the beach near her parten's summer home in Oregon | Madison O'Donnell | neutral | 0 |
While Nicky and Mog are sad at first, they both realize that it's what's best for all involved, and Mog resumes sleeping with Nicky again | Nicky | positive | 1 |
McDermid, however, really gets into the heads of her twisted antagonists and she seems to have done a tremendous amount of research | McDermid | positive | 0 |
One day, he is handed the Key and the Atlas, and the fate of his world falls on his shoulders, as a fatal plague sweeps the area | Atlas | neutral | 0 |
I liked the glowing clock hands and the fog with the creepy things standing in it | glowing clock hands | positive | 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 | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
While Paul Zindel's classic tale of four teenagers and their relationship problems is at times both moving and perfectly toned, mostly the problems presented in it are as dated as they come | relationship problems | neutral | 0 |
Talk about going out with a bang! The whole book is one big deceit, and Poirot is the biggest deceiver of all | Poirot | negative | 0 |
The world Marshall commits his novel to keeps the reader's attention by slowly unveiling possibilities that seem extra planar, or supernatural | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
The characters are likeable, the plot is complicated yet compelling and the writing superb | plot | positive | 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 | industrialized West | neutral | 0 |
The twist at the ending was thought out well | twist | positive | 0 |
Then these two kids Leaf and Ed helps Arthur by running to the office and running to the P | Ed | neutral | 0 |
What can I say that has not been said before? McDermid's psychological mysteries are absolutely brilliant | McDermid | neutral | 0 |
Then they disappeared and Ed and Leaf came running back | Leaf | neutral | 0 |
The killings are done in a particularly gruesome manner | killings | negative | 0 |
Alongside that, psychologists are being murdered on the contient | psychologists | negative | 0 |
Plus there are ever present characters of Monday's army, such as Dawn, Noon, and Dusk | Dawn | neutral | 0 |
And finally, Mister Monday and The Will | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
The emotional connection between Hill and the killers in the two previous books is missing here, making the entire killer plot read like an afterthought | killer plot | negative | 0 |
As if that were not enough, dog-faced Fetchers pursue him | dog-faced Fetchers | neutral | 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 | Carol | neutral | 0 |
THe last Poirot case was a heartbreaking affair | heartbreaking affair | neutral | 0 |
Carol and Tony are also investigating the murder and rape of children | murder | neutral | 0 |
This is, in my opinion, the most mature of Christie's stories | Christie | neutral | 0 |
But Jack has no time for Gary as he's just discovered his wife's cell phone has been found in a Seattle taxi | Gary | neutral | 0 |
The handling of the parallel world, the Will, Sneezer, and the Key and Atlas are all wonderfully woven together, not to mention the characters of Dawn, Dusk, Noon for each day, and so on | Noon | positive | 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 | atrocities | neutral | 0 |
A few phone calls and mysterious video messages later, Jack sets off on a journey to find his wife and learn what she is involved in, and with whom | Jack | neutral | 0 |
NOTE: Michael Marshall's alter ego is sci-fi and horror author Michael Marshall Smith | horror | positive | 0 |
It is a tribute to this lady's talent that she has found a more obscure practice of the Germany of the Nazi's to play a very valid role in this novel | Nazi's | neutral | 0 |
Diabola also discovers that she has powers where she can set things on fire, which is how she burned the school down | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
A villain, his messenger with blood stained wings, and an army of dog faced creatures will do anything to get the key back, even if it means destroying Arthur and everything that surrounds him | villain | negative | 0 |
The characters were also cool and well thought out | characters | positive | 0 |
These creatures, called Fetchers bring a terrible disease called the "Sleepy Pluage", which after afew symtoms like having a cold, puts the infected people to sleep- literally- they fall asleep, and can't be woken up! Aurther is particually sensitive to this outbreak beacuse he is adopted{his birth parents died in a flu outbreak when he was a baby} | Fetchers | neutral | 0 |
However, this quibble aside, I recommend "The Last Temptation | The Last Temptation | neutral | 0 |
Diabola causes chaos wherever she goes, whereas Angela is ever so sweet and angelic | Angela | positive | 0 |
Arthur does not know the danger ahead of him untill the night somebody shows up at his window | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Sean, like any normal teenager, is as horny as they come and is continually pressuring Liz to have sex | Liz | neutral | 0 |
Also in the story Angela and Diabola oops | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Unsurprisingly, that is exactly what happens and soon the big question in the book is whether or not Sean will do the honorable thing and marry Liz (!!) or if Liz will seek out an illegal abortion on her own | illegal abortion | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix has woven another intricate fantasy tale including wonderfully believable characters, strange creatures, and a tendency for the unexpected | characters | positive | 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 | Will | neutral | 0 |
He eventually finds his way into a bizarre realm known as the House, which turns out to be, essentially, the "Command and Control" center for the rest of the universe | House | neutral | 0 |
I have to say, I haven't read anything yet by Garth Nix that I didn't enjoy, but Mister Monday is by far my favorite | Mister Monday | 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 | Zeitgeist | neutral | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
To tell the truth I find this novel one of Zindel's less successful works | Zindel | neutral | 0 |
If books on criminal profiling and psychological forensics are your thing, you'll probably really enjoy McDermid's work | McDermid | positive | 0 |
Without giving away anything significant, I can tell you that a major portion of the book was centered around a police officer assuming an alias | police officer | 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? | deception | negative | 0 |
Their icons growing up on TV were single women, Superwomen who could do it all by themselves | Superwomen | neutral | 0 |
Monday a little less interesting than the rest of his books | Monday | neutral | 0 |
It is about time for prom and they both have dates | prom | neutral | 0 |
On the plus side, McDermid decides to branch out from northern England and take the reader into continental Europe, particularly Germany, where Carol Jordan has gone as an undercover operative to investigate a drug dealer/slave trader | undercover operative | neutral | 0 |
Arthur must get through some horrifying trials to save his Earth from the plague, and to prove that he is the Rightful Heir | plague | neutral | 0 |
Primo Levi's crystalline memory of | Primo Levi | neutral | 0 |
What the book offers instead is a well thought out, articulate discussion of marriage in the 21st century | discussion of marriage | positive | 0 |
cop now living in rural Washington state, whose background may be a little murky, is surprised by a visit from a high school semi-buddy who wants his help with a murdered family and a disappeared husband who may have been onto some highly secretive organization | murdered family | neutral | 0 |
Lynnee Reid Banks (the author) is an excellent writer and the story is understandable, because I understanded when I was 8 | story | positive | 0 |