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Monday's Dusk: A dark character, a rebel, helps Arthur through some complicated stuff | Dusk | neutral | 0 |
In this first book in the series, Keys to the Kingdom, we find Aurther Penhaligon, a seventh grader who recently moved to a new and strange home | Aurther Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Finally how everyone changed over the story, the characters in this story changed a lot in through the story | characters | positive | 0 |
The sophistication and talent that a writer needs to maintain two plot lines and ferry seven characters through a full-length novel, may be a challenge to author Val McDermid, but she does it with style, believability and panache in THE LAST TEMPTATION | THE LAST TEMPTATION | 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? | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
up until now i had never heard about garth nix until i found the keys to the kingdom | garth nix | neutral | 0 |
Noon with his big flame sword and Arthur with his clock sword | clock sword | 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 | key | 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 | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
If you'd like to know more about the history of the Young Adult novel, this is a good book to pick up | Young Adult novel | positive | 0 |
McDermid brings to light some of the darker deeds of the Nazis that are generally not known and discussed and for this she should be commended | McDermid | positive | 0 |
The generous side of Capone is one that is less frequently discussed | Capone | positive | 0 |
Arthur is a sympathetic but flawed character and Nix, without preaching or moralizing, manages to portray his compassion and a strong sense of right and wrong that truly make him worthy to be the Architect's Heir | Architect's Heir | positive | 0 |
What subsequently follows is history: the German subjugation of the rest of Czechoslovakia and the invasion of Poland, the German-Soviet non-aggression pact, the Phony War, the Soviet invasion of Finland, the British military's Norwegian fiasco, and the crisis in His Majasty's government in May 1940 that ultimately elevated Winston to the premiership | Winston | neutral | 0 |
After half the book you will go on reading until the end because you want to know who the murderer is | murderer | neutral | 0 |
Full of atmosphere, world war II feel to it | world war II | 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 | Aurther | neutral | 2 |
Friends Maggie and Liz aren't exactly close, but they hang out frequently together | Liz | neutral | 0 |
The only chance he has to save both himself and his father is to unlock the secret--and the curse--of Devil's Lake | father | neutral | 0 |
For the most part, I thought this book was good and I especially enjoyed Maggie and Dennis | Dennis | positive | 0 |
A retired heart surgeon, Ben Givens is an old hand at turning isolation to his advantage, both professionally and personally: "When everything human was erased from existence except that narrow antiseptic window through which another's heart could be manipulated--few were as adroit as Dr | isolation | neutral | 0 |
Altogether, a most satisfying read for lovers of spy fiction | spy fiction | neutral | 0 |
The key makes it possible for Arthur to live through a brutal asthma attack on the first day at this new school | asthma attack | negative | 0 |
I recommend this book to any Mystery lover | Mystery | positive | 0 |
After that, Arthur met Noon again with his brother and sister, Dawn and | Noon | neutral | 0 |
If you like contmporary fiction, you might enjoy Angela and Diabla | contmporary fiction | positive | 0 |
Val McDermid has once again produced an exciting and entertaining thriller | thriller | neutral | 0 |
I am amazed by Kingston's ability to present different perspectives and surprised by her ability to resolve many issues | Kingston | positive | 0 |
And, screen actor Allan Corduner has the power to imbue his reading of the latest by this talented author with the requisite amounts of menace and suspense | author | positive | 0 |
The Will gives him instructions on how to get the Greater Key (shaped like the hour hand on a clock) from Mister Monday and become Master of the Lower House | The Will | neutral | 0 |
It's an insight into the law enforcement agencies across Europe and an undercover police operation all rolled into one | undercover police operation | neutral | 0 |
Capone because of his leadership qualities and friendship with Torrio becomes a effective leader of the Chicago underworld | Chicago underworld | neutral | 0 |
A deadly flu pandemic killed his parents when he was a baby and also apparently allowed the federal government to assume sweeping powers, and his adoptive mother is a medical researcher | flu pandemic | negative | 0 |
Michael Marshall has a knack that few authors possess | Michael Marshall | positive | 0 |
It is about time for prom and they both have dates | dates | neutral | 0 |
Based on historical fact, WINSTON'S WAR is a solid and absorbing fictional rendition of the leadership struggle between Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill between October 1, 1938 and May 10, 1940 | leadership struggle | neutral | 0 |
Cuthbertson-Jones are in the kitchen in their apartment and men come in and try to steal all their food | men | negative | 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 | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
" When they get into a fight once again, Liz goes out with an older guy who practically rapes her | Liz | neutral | 0 |
Hill, a clinical psychologist who consults with the police as a profiler, and Carol Jordan, the police officer with whom he works most closely, always feel like real people with investigative abilities and compassion that are easy to admire and foibles that are easy to relate to | Carol Jordan | positive | 0 |
But then again Zindel is so far above other writers that I would certainly still recommend reading the novel | Zindel | positive | 0 |
Fisher's re-entrance into Jack's life is the catalyst for massive change, and the chaos that has been loitering outside the Whalen home for the last few years has finally found its way inside | Jack | neutral | 0 |
Jordan has helped bring two serial killers to justice and she has paid her dues as a police officer | Jordan | neutral | 0 |
After Arthur defeats Mister Monday he surrenders his strange powers to "The Will" | strange powers | neutral | 0 |
Okay, it's about these two twins, Angela and Diabola | Diabola | 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 | Mog | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix does an excellant job of intertwining the real world with that of the big house | house | 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 | asma attack | negative | 0 |
The main reoccurring theme is "from nothing we came, and to nothing we return" a bit unsettling for the typical child | theme | neutral | 0 |
Kingston examines that many facets of wifeliness that seem to prevail: helpmeet, virgin, Cinderella (equally entranced by the wedding dress as she is of scented toilet bowl cleaner), victim of abuse, shrew, spinster (or unwife), or supporting actress | facets of wifeliness | neutral | 0 |
I wanted to learn more about the Nine, a secret organization central to the tale's mystery, and was left feeling a bit confused about certain key points to the story (namely a character who goes unidentified until the end) | Nine | positive | 0 |
I would give it 30 thumbs up if I could! This book starts off with the main character, Arthur, going to a new school | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Now the first and least fragment of the Will has escaped, and it is helping Aurther | Will | 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) | Sneezer | neutral | 1 |
I liked it when Dybo pushed the miss Mursles off the climbing frame without any clothes on! I think that Angela and Diabola is the best book I read this year!!!!!!!!!! | miss Mursles | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix can build one idea off of the other, which would help him explain his thoughts | Garth Nix | neutral | 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 | political maneuvering | neutral | 0 |
Along with the key comes a plague brought by creatures from another realm | plague | neutral | 0 |
The Meaning of Wife picks up where that excellent book ends | Meaning of Wife | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix is usually the first author that I recommend when kids and teens ask me what to read once they've finished all the available Harry Potter books | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
Arthur has really bad asthma, but since the new gym teacher doesn't know it, Arthur is forced to run | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
This book is a total mess: the key concept makes no sense, the characters are mostly uninteresting, and the big introductory scene about the murder of the scientist's family has NOTHING to do with the plot | characters | negative | 0 |
All other characters are vivid and interesting, both good and bad, and immensely memorable | characters | positive | 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 | 0 |
Arthur uses the key to enter into a mysterious house (that only he can see) in hopes of finding a cure | key | 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 | 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 |
While Diabola, well, let's just say that she is the exact opposite of her sister in every way possible | Diabola | negative | 0 |
I also liked the strange, deformed "people" and the wooden robot-creatures that wielded axes and drills | wooden robot-creatures | positive | 0 |
Angela is described as a wonderful child spreading joy and happiness wherever she goes | Angela | positive | 0 |
When the idea that she's got to go somewhere sets her traveling, the people who help her along the way come to rue it as this nice, little girl with headaches has a killer's instincts | girl | negative | 0 |
The author seemed capable of throwing in anything or anyone that we might have read about elsewhere | author | negative | 0 |
Arthur is put through a rigorous test of bravery and compassion to face the evil Mister Monday | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
It's a pleasure to see Garth Nix's Keys To The Kingdom: Mister Monday in affordable paperback, presenting the first book in the series for a new generation of readers in an affordable paper format | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
This was the first novel I read by Agatha Christie but I'll indeed read more of her | novel | positive | 0 |
So Arthur has asthma VERY severely in fact and almost dies, but survive because Mr | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Young adult readers may be slightly confused by all the twists and machinations, but will still be thrilled by the adventures of Arthur and his friend Suzy Turquoise Blue as they negotiate the secrets of the House, guided by the Will, and armed with nothing but the Key, a great deal of common sense, and a very strong will to survive | House | neutral | 0 |
Arthur runs the race and (Big Surprise) suffers an asthama attack | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Everything about the environment and, we could say, culture of the House is a parody and play on real life | House | positive | 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 | Sean | neutral | 0 |
When he recovers, the "key" and " A Compleat Atlas of The House" are still there | key | neutral | 0 |
The story of Al Capone is brilliantly laid out in an easy to follow format that takes the reader through Capone's life and motivations | Capone | neutral | 0 |
After spending a couple days in the hospital he finds a notebook in his jacket pocket when he held the key and opened the book he sees a drawing of a house that nobody else can see | house | neutral | 0 |
Then Diabola draws a horrid picture, and the principal thinks Diabola is a genius | Diabola | positive | 1 |
"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 | social patterns | 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 | key | neutral | 0 |
I wonder if Agatha Christie decided to kill off Poirot because she knew she could never write anything better than this | Poirot | 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 | Dusk | 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 |
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 | Will | neutral | 0 |
Arthur faked the give and threw the key and when the minute hand struk one o' clock all of the dogs and Noon disappeared | key | neutral | 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 | Nazi | 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? | story | positive | 0 |
"Mr Keay explores literature (such as the Ramayana), the leftovers of earlier civilisation (such as coins), architecture (Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem), and paintings | Moslem | neutral | 0 |
The whole key thing was a good idea | key | positive | 0 |
I liked it when Dybo pushed the miss Mursles off the climbing frame without any clothes on! I think that Angela and Diabola is the best book I read this year!!!!!!!!!! | Dybo | neutral | 0 |
What rich pickings there were for those British colonials who took the continent to heart, and were not repulsed by its alienness | British colonials | neutral | 0 |