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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) | plot | negative | 0 |
So I'm very happy to see such a rare, daring feat like Mister Monday in print | Mister Monday | 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 | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Arthur then got better and ran out of the hospital heading for the House | House | neutral | 0 |
Between present-tense episodes, which demonstrate Ben's cranky commitment to his own extinction, we learn about his boyhood in Washington's apple country, his traumatic war experience in the Italian Alps, and the beginning of his vocation | war experience | neutral | 0 |
Taking David Hume as a prime example, Gellner shows that the scientific, empiricist thought of the Enlightenment abandoned the angel/beast dichotomy | Gellner | neutral | 0 |
Suzy, although a secondary character, is brave and resourceful as well as funny, and without her, Arthur probably would not have survived his first hour in the House | House | 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 | Hindu culture | neutral | 0 |
He also focuses in on the specific structural features of modern life that made psychoanalysis an especially successful ideology | structural features of modern life | neutral | 0 |
Then, Aurther notices a strange house that only he can see | strange house | neutral | 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? | chilling tale | neutral | 0 |
When he returns home after another stay in the hospital, Arthur finds that the Key seems to be attracting unwanted attention -- a statue of a Komodo dragon comes alive, and a winged man-dog tries to come into his house | Key | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is an interesting Fantasy novel that draws readers in from the very beginning | Fantasy novel | neutral | 0 |
Diabla always throws things at Angela, but Angela still loves her anyway | Diabla | negative | 0 |
His normal life of interrupting his family's lives because they have to rush him to the hospital due to asthma attacks changes when he finds himself the chosen heir to the House | heir to the House | positive | 0 |
This is a suspenseful story packed with adventure | suspenseful story | neutral | 0 |
This leads to other rackets, and the Mafia is born | Mafia | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is about a young boy named Arthur Penhaligon who must save his world from a plague but must go through the biggest dangers that he must overcome in another realm | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
His characters are believable and descriptions vivid | characters | positive | 0 |
What could be more innocuous than a small key? But, wait, the key seems to have a terrifying effect on the world as it brings with it a plague | key | negative | 1 |
On of the greatest scenes of action is when Arthur and Mister Monday are fighting, the descriptiveness was so vivid I thought I was watching them the whole time | scenes of action | positive | 0 |
If you don't already know it, this is Poirot's last case | Poirot | neutral | 0 |
Then, Aurther notices a strange house that only he can see | strange house | neutral | 0 |
And then they leave, when Arthur touches the key he feels better | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Zndel is generally a brilliant, brilliant writer, this book just did not measure up to the standards it's being judged against | writer | positive | 0 |
Nuts and seeds - acorn, grass seed, jojoba, etc | Nuts | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is about a young boy named Arthur Penhaligon who must save his world from a plague but must go through the biggest dangers that he must overcome in another realm | plague | 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 | Carol Jordan | neutral | 0 |
The author followed through with the title in the beginning with an overwhelming introduction | author | positive | 0 |
Searching for the truth about his wife, Jack turns more and more to an old high school friend, Gary Fisher, once an idolized athletic hero in school, later a top lawyer, but obviously a man with a burning mission | Jack | 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 | Nix | neutral | 0 |
I think I found the book interesting because I was able to compare my views on wifedom and marriage to the views my mom has | marriage | neutral | 0 |
didn't get it but his Fetchers got the atlas | atlas | neutral | 0 |
There is also brutal violence with both men and women as victims, so read and be prepared | violence | neutral | 0 |
Cactus and cactuslike plants - agave, barrel, cholla, etc | Cactus | neutral | 0 |
Banks was urging girls to be balanced in our increasingly unbalanced world | Banks | neutral | 0 |
It has a realistic sort of character, because everyone is expecting him to save the world, but he has no idea what to do or where to go | character | positive | 0 |
he journeys up the house into Mister Monday's room on the top floor of the house | Mister Monday | 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 | Moslem invasions | 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 | Suzy Turquoise Blue | neutral | 0 |
I think Kolbler does a good job of detailing the rise of the Mafia | Mafia | neutral | 0 |
The novel is full of conversation, and as for action you'll have to settle for walks through the garden of Buckingham Palace with Lord Halifax, and King George VI (who, we find out, was so tongue tied that it was difficult for him to make clear statements) | novel | neutral | 0 |
This author illustrates for the reader just how vile murder and violence are | murder | negative | 0 |
Diana Wynne Jones writes the most fantastic young-adult fiction I've ever read, so when I heard that she'd also written one for younger children, I couldn't wait to read it | Diana Wynne Jones | neutral | 0 |
The book is about this kid whose name is authur | authur | neutral | 0 |
In any case, I wasn't expecting much but I was overwhelmed by the complexity yet clearness of Garth Nix's writing | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
What begins as a reasonably straightforward mystery involving a couple of murders and several missing people in the Pacific Northwest soon escalates into something dark and different and profoundly frightening | mystery | neutral | 0 |
Arthur doesn't know what to do to stop the plague, so he goes to a weird house only he can see | weird house | neutral | 0 |
The main characters are two twin girls, Angela and Diabola | Angela | neutral | 0 |
The characters were interesting as well | characters | positive | 0 |
If you are looking for a thrilling fantasy book, I recommend that you read the series of books The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
The concept of the murderer who is brilliant enough to manipulate others into doing the job for him is extremely interesting | murderer | positive | 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 | Sean | neutral | 0 |
His job is to outsmart the killer and prevent any more brutal "mutilation" deaths | mutilation | negative | 0 |
"Mr Keay explores literature (such as the Ramayana), the leftovers of earlier civilisation (such as coins), architecture (Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem), and paintings | leftovers | 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 | 0 |
Weird dog faced creatures from the Secondary Realms called Fetchers who were sent to retrieve the key by Mister Monday | key | neutral | 0 |
Monday wants the Key back | Key | neutral | 0 |
The story of Angela and Diabola all begins when Mrs | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Carol and Tony (former lovers) are haunted by the memories of a past criminal investigation | Carol | neutral | 0 |
Arthur, and young boy that was not athletic and had asthma problems, saved the whole world with his key | key | neutral | 0 |
And these charaters drift in and out of this long dizzy story of what the future will be like in the 22nd Century while changing in spirit, age, and mindset | charaters | neutral | 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 | mystery | neutral | 0 |
NOTE: Michael Marshall's alter ego is sci-fi and horror author Michael Marshall Smith | Michael Marshall Smith | neutral | 0 |
The characters are very interesting, deeply drawn and the relationship between the "good" twin (Angela) & "bad" twin (Diabola) is complex & rich | Diabola | negative | 0 |
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 | the Will | 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 | Ed | neutral | 0 |
"Class Trip" was definitly one of my favorite books ever, and most likely will always be one | Class Trip | neutral | 0 |
But it doesn't work as Mister Monday intended, for with the key in his hand Arthur can breathe as though he has never had asthma | key | neutral | 0 |
I don't usually like long-drawn out English romances that may or may not go somewhere, but this relationship is more realistic than most | relationship | positive | 0 |
But once I got into the beginning and reading about Arthur, the hesitant hero, the book grew on me | Arthur | 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 | asthma attack | 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 | Key | neutral | 0 |
One is good(called Jill),another is bad(called Jane) | Jill | positive | 0 |
He was trying to set up the world that gave rise to a gang leader like Al Capone | Al Capone | neutral | 0 |
It expresses many problems that teens face today like dating, sex, teenage pregnancy, and many others | dating | neutral | 0 |
soon enough they go away, but leave behind a mysterious diease | mysterious diease | neutral | 0 |
the end really confused me i thought liz would end up with sean and maggie would end up with dennis | liz | neutral | 0 |
They show the 3 bugs currently under discussion (small, smaller, smallest, for example) in juxtaposition which makes it easy to talk about the concepts | bugs | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola is a silly, funny and a great book | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
The boy, Arthur Penhaligon, drawn into complete despair, ventures into a house only he can see, and into a world he where he should not be | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Smith keeps on shifting perspectives and deliberately keeps the reader off-balance | Smith | neutral | 0 |
This is slated as a 'crime novel' but it is so much more! | crime novel | neutral | 0 |
Soon all three scenarios will connect at the heart of Jack's soul | Jack | neutral | 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 | Tadeusz Radecki | neutral | 0 |
Lynne Reid | Lynne Reid | neutral | 0 |
The book is well-crafted and grips you as you work through the developing enigma and misleading clues with the protagonist | misleading clues | neutral | 0 |
Arthur is afterwards harassed and pursued by guys in bowler hats named Fetchers - imaginary fellows that spread a deadly plague, led by a guy with a sword of fire | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Do their parents understand or even care about them? Are they ready for sex? Meanwhile can Maggie and Dennis learn to communicate enough to stay together? | parents | neutral | 0 |
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 | Dawn | neutral | 0 |
The ending is satisfying for the most part, although it would have been nice to have a final scene with Petra and Marijke, since it's not likely McDermid will use them again | McDermid | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 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 | dysfunctional relationship | 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 | Suzy | neutral | 0 |
But she's such a self-absorbed person, constantly ridiculing her best friend and at the same time dragging Maggie into horrid and dangerous situations, that by the end you feel zippo pity for her | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
He is my favorite character because he has and awesome outfit, I mean there aren't many guys waliking around with wings and a flaming sword | flaming sword | neutral | 0 |
I think it was good because when he figures out who the murderer is, he's eye to eye with him | murderer | neutral | 0 |
Old legends are given new life (such as the tale of the Pied Piper and the Greek myth of Prometheus) and concepts and symbols given real form: such as the days of the week in human form, and their angelic-looking (but quite devilish) Dawn, Noon and Dusks | Noon | negative | 0 |
For some reason I think Angela needed badness more then Diabola needed goodness | Angela | negative | 0 |
While Garth Nix's fictional characters often have magical powers he, too, has a power - the power to create fantasy tales that have earned him a host of young fans | characters | positive | 0 |