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Everyone loves Angela much and hate Diabola | Diabola | negative | 0 |
Garth Nix has created a surprising world of fascinating characters and ideas | characters | positive | 0 |
I was disappointed enough in the book to move along to another author, as opposed to reading the rest of the Carol Jordan/Tony Hill saga | Carol Jordan | neutral | 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 | Noon | neutral | 0 |
Angela helps, while Diabola hinders | Diabola | negative | 0 |
Suzy, one of Arthur's allies through out the story, changed from working at a crappy job to helping save the world | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
it is the best horror/action/adventure book i haver ever read | action | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix's "Mister Monday" begins a brand new fantasy series in the "Keys to the Kingdom" series | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
And so he takes the matter on to his own hands, although knowing that no crime can go unpunished | crime | neutral | 0 |
Cuthbertson-Jones thinks Diabola hurt the men for her, but really Diabola didn't like the men and had done it for herself | Cuthbertson-Jones | neutral | 0 |
Unfortunately, I was a little surprised, and very disappointed in the way the author chose to "reveal" the main undercover operation to the criminal | author | negative | 0 |
One question I have is what happens after you fall asleep during the process of the "Sleepy Plague" | Sleepy Plague | neutral | 0 |
The book has lots of interesting magic, blue-and-yellow-striped dinosaurs, an angry old man who is chained to a gigantic clock, and a pair of truly macabre creatures who gouge out the old man's eyes every day at 12 o'clock | gigantic clock | neutral | 0 |
Paul really emphasizes what sex can lead to and at the same time gets into teenagers head to really think about doing things out before executing them | Paul | neutral | 0 |
One thing is for sure, this is not another boring history book | history book | neutral | 0 |
That morning, Jack's wife had driven to Seattle for a meeting at her ad agency | Jack's wife | 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? | sex | neutral | 0 |
The author explains the "Wedding Industrial Complex" that drives the image of the "perfect" wedding at the expense of all sensibilities | Wedding Industrial Complex | negative | 0 |
" Arthur has already saved my world from the Sleepy Plague and I'm not particularly taken with the rest of Nix's mixed-up Universe | Sleepy Plague | neutral | 0 |
Abortion is a very hard thing to talk about and I thought that Zindel did a very good job at making it known how different thought about it | Abortion | neutral | 0 |
Some characters were hypocritical and detestable | characters | negative | 0 |
With a lot of 'twinnish', a language which is used by the twins to communicate, Diabola talks to Angela because she does not know how to speak a lot of English | twins | neutral | 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 | Monday | neutral | 0 |
Val McDermid is a superb storyteller | storyteller | positive | 0 |
I found "Skylar" to be a better book, because the story was more original | story | positive | 0 |
Overall, despite the quirky environment and characters, the story felt predictable and a bit templated in its structure | quirky environment | positive | 0 |
During this book Arthur meets some odd people like some dog-faced men in bowler hats | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
In the never-ending height of the House, he is the rightful heir to the lower part | rightful heir | neutral | 0 |
Hill and Jordan have collaborated professionally in the past | Hill | neutral | 0 |
The author seems to have tried out several different settings (Victorian policemen and a sort of Bob Cratchit universe, along with dinosaurs, good and bad angels, and a really stinky and terrifying Roman bathhouse), then didn't want to discard anything | Roman bathhouse | negative | 0 |
As the book opens, Chamberlain has returned to 10 Downing Street a public hero after the signing of the Munich Agreement between himself and Adolf Hitler which gave the latter the Sudetenland in return for "peace in our time" | Adolf Hitler | neutral | 0 |
Clearly Guterson has done his research down to the last stray bullet, but there's a second-hand feeling to the material, which seems less a token of Ben's detachment than the author's | Ben | neutral | 0 |
Will Arthur save the world from the plague? How did the "Will" escape? Read Mister Monday and all those questions will be answered! | plague | negative | 0 |
The book explores the role of the wife in society from a historical perspective and does a very good job illustrating how tht role has changed over time | historical | neutral | 0 |
He thinks he knowswhere he could find a cure-in a mysterious house only he can see | house | neutral | 0 |
The author knows how to make the characters come alive--I felt like I was an active observer/participant so easily | author | positive | 0 |
Garth Nix has become my new favorite writer, and my discovery started with Mister Monday, the first in the Keys to the Kingdom series | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Kingston's book not only focuses on the upper echelons, but the most extreme marraiges | marraiges | neutral | 0 |
Fans of the psychological suspense novels will find this one right up their alley | psychological suspense | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday changed from a ruler of many to be a pathetic man grobbling for his life in front of Arthur | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Monday was fantasy | Monday | neutral | 0 |
Unfortunately, the author chose to describe Capone's effect on the world in seven pages | Capone | neutral | 0 |
This book is about a boy named, Arthur, who recieves a key and an atlas from a mysterious man named Mister Monday | key | neutral | 0 |
Also it's cool that a tiny key can turn a yiny atlas into a gigantic one | key | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix's 'Mister Monday' was a highly clever, creative, and entertaining read that had me up into the wee hours of the morning following Arthur's adventures in the House | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Naturally Arthur wants to concentrate on curing the plague, since his own family is involved | plague | neutral | 0 |
Jack Whalen is a patrol cop who could have become a detective, but didn't | Jack Whalen | neutral | 0 |
then there was a guy named Noon came in the library and looked for Arthur then Arthur ran for it and started throwing salt, but some of the dogs got him on his chest,leg, and arm | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Arthur is suspended between many betrayals, and has many things like "Trust the Will" and then "Don't trust the Will" told to him, and is constantly hunted by the lazy mister monday and his Noon (Right hand man), Dawn (Left hand woman) and constantly helped by Mondays Dusk, the final of the trio of the day (You may have guessed Mister Monday can only come to earth on monday, his dawn can only come from 12:01 AM-1:00 AM, Noon can only come from 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, and finaly dusk can come from 11:00 PM-12:00 AM) | Noon | neutral | 1 |
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 | Diabola | negative | 0 |
Angela and Diabola | Diabola | 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 | Monday | neutral | 0 |
Monday, one of the seven trusties entrusted with the Will while GA is off gallivanting about | the Will | neutral | 0 |
And it's an exciting story that holds your interest until the end | story | positive | 0 |
In novel after novel, from Only Forward to Blood of Angels and now to The Intruders, he is able to deftly create sharply incisive and deeply observed characters inside the first page and sustain that sense of compassion and understanding throughout the work, no matter the form within which he is working, no matter the subject | characters | positive | 0 |
When Angela is near Diabola, she can't do anything wrong | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Their parents had always been able to handle the girls, both the good and the bad, until one day when Diabola does something that neither her parents nor her sister would ever imagine | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
I first got this book when I was eight and I totally loved it! I have read it every year since then! It is about a pair of twins who are born one VERY good and one EXTREMELY bad | twins | neutral | 0 |
And in this book, the serial killer and the surrounding hunt for him are as limply portrayed as Dr | serial killer | neutral | 0 |
"Mr Keay explores literature (such as the Ramayana), the leftovers of earlier civilisation (such as coins), architecture (Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem), and paintings | Hindu | neutral | 0 |
If you are looking for a thrilling mystery, this is the book for you! This book is about an asmatic boy who has moved to a new school and the first day has a asma attack | thrilling mystery | positive | 0 |
Angela has all goodness,while Diabolo is utterly disgusting | Angela | positive | 0 |
Unknowingly to Arthur, the key is what saves him from death, and regretably, seals his fate to embarking on a quest to save another dimension from the ruins of the "Days", although this is what saves his life, he soon begins to regret ever becoming the heir to first key, and so begins the start of the series of The Keys to the Kingdom | key | neutral | 0 |
Liz and Sean seem to be a smooth and sophisticated senior high school couple | high school | neutral | 0 |
Throughout the book we are a fly on the wall listening to the political machinations of the principle characters in the story which include, Chamberlain, Churchill, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, Lord Halifax, the traitor Guy Burgess, and many others | Lord Halifax | neutral | 0 |
This is a great book to teach size relationships as well as some basic reading words | size relationships | neutral | 0 |
I'd certainly stress this advice to any prospective readers: if you like impossible, anything-goes sci-fi, this may be up your alley; but if you are looking for a serious mystery, with intellectual quality and complex, non-stereotypical characters, pass this one by | characters | negative | 0 |
Exploding onto the Childrens' Literature scene is Garth Nix and his Keys to the Kingdom series | Kingdom series | neutral | 0 |
The plot and atmosphere are indeed grim, which is indeed what bothered me | atmosphere | negative | 0 |
But his life is saved by a minute hand shaped key | minute hand shaped key | positive | 0 |
And Amy? She just gets more and more bizarre | Amy | neutral | 0 |
I liked the way the author made it so i could picture it in my head | author | positive | 0 |
Arthur sets off into the house to find a way to save his world | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
This book about comparing-and-contrasting sizes is different still | comparing-and-contrasting sizes | neutral | 0 |
Young Arthur Penhaligon is an asthmatic | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
This book is an example of kids with problems and their friends problems all in one book | kids with problems | neutral | 0 |
Marshall tries to weave a sci-fi tale that comes across as an attempt to master a genre he knows little about | sci-fi tale | neutral | 0 |
But no matter what Angela loves Diabola, even when Diabola trys to kill her | Angela | neutral | 0 |
It expresses many problems that teens face today like dating, sex, teenage pregnancy, and many others | sex | neutral | 0 |
The suspense and amazing imagination that Nix uses draws the students in and keeps them hooked from page one | Nix | positive | 0 |
First of all Arthur who changed from assort of goofy asthmatic kid who couldn't run or fight in to a great hero | asthmatic kid | negative | 0 |
This book is about two sisters, Angela & Diabola | sisters | neutral | 0 |
" Capone is a classic in true crime literature | crime literature | positive | 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 | the Will | neutral | 1 |
He couldn't bear to have more loved ones lost to a disease outbreak | disease outbreak | negative | 0 |
The cast of characters in this sweeping story by Michael Dobbs of political maneuvering, skullduggery, and backstabbing is an historical Who's Who of the times: the ailing, haughty, and pacifist Chamberlain, who personifies England's bitter memories of the Great War and the popular concept of "never again"; the ambitious and self-absorbed Churchill, whose pugnacity sometimes clouds prudence; the defeatist, philandering, and anti-Semitic U | Great War | neutral | 0 |
It would be easy to bluntly horrify the reader in a book about life in a death camp, but Levi is not content to appeal to the emotions | Levi | neutral | 0 |
I would really love to read another one of Bebe Faas Rice's books very very much | Bebe Faas Rice | positive | 0 |
But the tale of The Intruders truly begins when Jack Whalen, a former cop with a troubled past who has of late become an accidental author of sorts, gets an out-of-the-blue visit from Gary Fisher, a high school classmate he hasn't seen in two decades, and one to whom he was only mildly acquainted -- making the seemingly impromptu reunion even more suspicious to a been-there-done-that kind of guy like Jack | Gary Fisher | neutral | 0 |
The young protagonist; Arthur Penhaligon, is chosen by the Will (the last instructions from the Great Architect, read God, before she takes off to places unknown,) to be the heir of the Keys to the Kingdom, to be the master of the House and the known universe | House | neutral | 0 |
Next recipe: cholla buds and squash | squash | neutral | 0 |
Unlikeable, dour and sour characters populate this novel that has SciFi/Horror overtones set in something of a hardboiled mystery | characters | negative | 0 |
The young protagonist; Arthur Penhaligon, is chosen by the Will (the last instructions from the Great Architect, read God, before she takes off to places unknown,) to be the heir of the Keys to the Kingdom, to be the master of the House and the known universe | the Will | neutral | 0 |
While at school Arthur obtains a "Key" shaped like a minute hand on a clock | Key | neutral | 0 |
It is about Arthur, an average boy who turns into an extraordinary boy | Arthur | neutral | 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 | clock | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon is an average adolescent, provided he is asthmatic | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Written for young adults this is a book that can be enjoyed by anyone who loves a good fantasy story | fantasy | positive | 0 |
The book Mister Monday by Garth Nix , was a very good book | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Other people are The Franklins, The Luttrells who are the owners of the hotel, Mr | The Franklins | neutral | 0 |