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His rise to First Lord of the Admiralty, and then to Prime Minister is a long fight against the odds | Prime Minister | neutral | 0 |
Paul Zindel is an amazing author! | Paul Zindel | positive | 0 |
Actually the most vivid memory I have of the story is when Liz calls home to say she'll be late, her stepfather calls her a tramp, and that's when she succumbs to Sean's pressure to have sex | Liz | neutral | 0 |
The author explains the "Wedding Industrial Complex" that drives the image of the "perfect" wedding at the expense of all sensibilities | author | neutral | 0 |
So along the way he meets Suzy Turquoise Blue who once was a human like Arthur, but has become a "denizen" of the house where it is almost impossible to be killed/die and you never Have to eat or drink, and never get colds | Suzy Turquoise Blue | 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 | Sean | neutral | 0 |
The hero of the story is a normal kid who finds out that he himself is the heir to the power of the "Architec" the being that created all of the universe | heir | neutral | 0 |
here he must reclaim the house from the sinister morrow days mister monday, grim tuesday, drowned wednesday, sir thursday, lady friday, supirior saturday, and lord sunday | drowned wednesday | negative | 0 |
I personally love fantasy books, and Garth nix can draw people like me into his writing | fantasy | positive | 0 |
Now in is astonishing new novel, Michael Dobbs throws brilliant fresh light upon Churchill's relationship with the Soviet spy and the twenty months of conspiracy, chance and outright treachery that were to propel Churchill from outcast to messiah and change the course of history | conspiracy | neutral | 0 |
Whalen is an ex-LAPD patrolman who retired from the force, wrote a book of some nominal success and now lives with his wife Amy --- a successful marketing executive --- in a small rural community a few hours removed from Seattle | Whalen | neutral | 0 |
From there, the topics of sex and abuse, divorce and value are thoroughly portrayed | sex | neutral | 0 |
Kingston covers all the bases, beginning with the world's fascination with Princess Diana's foray into wifedom | wifedom | neutral | 0 |
Grapes, berries and cherries - chokecherry, wild currant, etc | Grapes | neutral | 0 |
The author does ultimately admit that there is "no singular meaning of wife | author | neutral | 0 |
Angela is very excited, but Diabola is bored and gloomy | Angela | 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 | strange plauge | neutral | 0 |
I liked the glowing clock hands and the fog with the creepy things standing in it | fog | positive | 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 | Keys to the Kingdom | neutral | 0 |
Angela always want to be with be with her sister Diabla | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon was a believable hero who after strange creatures called Fetchers bring a sleeply plague to his town, with his newly acquired key, Arthur must venture into the mysterious House that only he can see to save his town | sleeply plague | neutral | 0 |
Kept the plot and characters engaging and fun to read | plot | positive | 0 |
However, along with the key comes a plague brought by bizarre creatures from another realm--dog-faced men in bowler hats called Fetchers | key | neutral | 0 |
You find your self almost hurrying to the next page because the suspense builds through to the end of the book | suspense | positive | 0 |
As for the 'bad guys', the smuggler Tadeusz and his crony Krazic, are suitably creepy, although the scenes featuring just the two of them are a bit slow | scenes | negative | 0 |
This book is not a man-bashing book but an uplifting book for women--or more or less a cautionairy tale | cautionairy tale | neutral | 0 |
I can definitely see the connects between Mister Monday and these other series, but there is little else there besides the fact that Mister Monday is a somewhat dark, young adult fantasy novel | Mister Monday | neutral | 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 | fantasy tales | positive | 0 |
There are a myriad of secrets within these walls and uncounted mysteries attached to the key | key | neutral | 0 |
Then when Arthur was about to die Mister Monday and Sneezer ame out of nowhere and gave Arthur a key that looks like the hand of a clock and an atlas | Sneezer | neutral | 0 |
The main characters are two twin girls, Angela and Diabola | twin girls | neutral | 0 |
Only Arthur could give it to | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Nix makes some interesting speculations upon the origins of the universe | Nix | positive | 0 |
Although it is the literary equivalent of a cluttered desk, Mister Monday's images are rich, and will leave you wanting more | Mister Monday | 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 | The House | neutral | 0 |
this is one of the best books i have ever read! garth nix is amazing at making Arthur, Suzy, Monday, the Will, Dawn, Noon, and Dusk all come to life | Suzy | neutral | 0 |
Naturally Arthur wants to concentrate on curing the plague, since his own family is involved | plague | neutral | 0 |
She shares visions with Jack, who digs deeper into a cesspool in search of his wife | wife | neutral | 0 |
I definitely recommend reading this book, though I feel it is a touch lower than Garth Nix's Sabriel and Seventh Tower | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
This novel is about twins,one good one bad | novel | neutral | 0 |
This is the third novel I have read by Val McDermid | Val McDermid | neutral | 0 |
Additionally, Capone made his money from gambling and racketeering | Capone | negative | 0 |
Still, Smith is a terrific writer of prose, one of the best out there in genre fiction | Smith | positive | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Still, many of his ambling sentences offer miniature lessons in patience and perception: "They rode back all day to the Columbia, traversed it on the Colockum Ferry, and at dusk came into their orchard tired, on empty stomachs, their hats tipped back, to walk the horses between the rows of trees in a silent kind of processional, and Aidan ran his hands over limbs as he passed them with his horse behind him, the limbs trembling in the wake of his passing, and on, then, to the barn | perception | positive | 0 |
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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Anyway, Agatha Christie wrote one of the best Poirot novels ever | Poirot | 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 | 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) | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
It is to bad some reviewers think Anne has a chip on her shoulder | Anne | negative | 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 | Suzy | neutral | 1 |
An asthmatic, Arthur suffers an attack when in gym class at his new school, and while he is waiting for medical assistance, two strangely garbed men give him what appears to be the minute hand of a clock | minute hand of a clock | neutral | 0 |
Only Agatha Christie would think to bring an end to her hero in this way | Agatha Christie | neutral | 0 |
In the end Arthur defeats Mister Monday and saves the lower house, but there are more days of the week to be stopped | house | neutral | 0 |
this is one of the best books i have ever read! garth nix is amazing at making Arthur, Suzy, Monday, the Will, Dawn, Noon, and Dusk all come to life | Dusk | positive | 0 |
Valentine's Day massacre to his eventual control of Chicago, here is the inside scoop on "Snorky" aka "Scarface" aka "Public Enemy Number One | Valentine's Day massacre | negative | 0 |
I was glad to find out where Suzy came from | Suzy | neutral | 0 |
So along the way he meets Suzy Turquoise Blue who once was a human like Arthur, but has become a "denizen" of the house where it is almost impossible to be killed/die and you never Have to eat or drink, and never get colds | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Kennedy; the alcoholic, disillusioned and psychologically tortured idealist, Guy Burgess (of Burgess, Philby, and Maclean of Cold War infamy); the stuttering King George VI, who whines that the German invasion of Poland interrupted his grouse hunting; and the Machiavellian newspaper mogul, William "Max" Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook | William "Max" Aitken | negative | 0 |
Then comes Diabola | Diabola | neutral | 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 | cure | positive | 0 |
This is an original book, well written with interesting characters | characters | positive | 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 | Jack | 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 | the Will | neutral | 0 |
I'm wholeheartedly disappointed to see that some reviewers have perceived the author to have a "chip on her shoulder" simply because she presents some facts on how society has perceived women who occupy the role of wife | author | neutral | 0 |
This part of the story would seem more original if it hadn't been done just last month in the techno thriller HOOKED | story | negative | 0 |
Throughout the book the narrative switches between Maggie and her tentative relationship with Dennis and Liz's problems with Sean | relationship | neutral | 0 |
I liked this book because it had a lot of action and although the hero had asthma he kept on going | asthma | negative | 0 |
You should read this book because it's about twins that don't seem anything alike | twins | neutral | 0 |
Also, I didn't get the closure I needed at the end between Liz and Maggie | Liz | neutral | 0 |
How he could have found Arthur's ordeals "tame" I have no idea! And the first Harry Potter book was very firmly a middle-grade novel, despite its length | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
That's why Mister Monday is so irresistible, and it's a great book not only for fantasy readers, but also for anyone looking for a great story | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
One seemingly uneventful day high school sports friend Gary Fisher calls from Chicago to ask Jack to do him a favor | Jack | neutral | 0 |
Diabola is rotten and she hates her sister | Diabola | negative | 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 | Arthur | positive | 0 |
This definitive handbook, written by one of the world's leading authorities on C | authorities | positive | 0 |
Okay, it's about these two twins, Angela and Diabola | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Here is the ultimate biography of the most brutal, flamboyant gangster of all time-Al Capone | Al Capone | positive | 0 |
You will find yourself captivated by each letter in this book, you will see that you are swept away in the pages but don't want to come out! Mister Monday will do anything to get the key back (you will have to read to see if Arthur makes it through the book alive)! | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon was a believable hero who after strange creatures called Fetchers bring a sleeply plague to his town, with his newly acquired key, Arthur must venture into the mysterious House that only he can see to save his town | Arthur | neutral | 1 |
My Darling,My Hambuger is a well written novel by Paul Zindel that might illustrtate the life of a teen durign hi high school years | My Darling,My Hambuger | neutral | 0 |
At the center of this, of course, is The Dress, that iconic image of marital bliss | The Dress | 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 | dog-faced men | negative | 0 |
Kingston does a great job of weaving together pop culture and history, and she's a fun writer | Kingston | positive | 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 | McDermid | 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 | asthma attack | neutral | 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 | 0 |
This is probably the grittiest of the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan stories and one of the best | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
Kingston's book not only focuses on the upper echelons, but the most extreme marraiges | Kingston | neutral | 0 |
Anyway, Agatha Christie wrote one of the best Poirot novels ever | novels | positive | 0 |
I liked it when Dybo pushed miss Mursles off the climbing frame without any clothes on! Angela and Diabola is a great book for all ages because it is not violent but it is extra funny | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix has a hard act to follow in this first, highly imaginative book of The Keys to the Kingdom | Garth Nix | neutral | 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 | key | neutral | 0 |
I was kind of expecting Leaf to be with Arthur through the book as a sidekick, but I liked Suzy just as well | Suzy | positive | 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 | key | neutral | 0 |
But Nix doesn't downplay his brand of horrific fantasy either; stuff that would seem silly for most other authors, like dog-faced monsters, is magic in his hands | Nix | positive | 0 |
Kingston is no Steinem and doesn't suggest that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle (though she is unmarried) | Kingston | neutral | 0 |
As for the 'bad guys', the smuggler Tadeusz and his crony Krazic, are suitably creepy, although the scenes featuring just the two of them are a bit slow | Tadeusz | neutral | 0 |
The Keys to the Kingdom is an excellent new series by Garth Nix - a series I cannot wait for the sequel too! To get the concept of the book, you kind of have to read it, really | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
This book is jam-packed with many fantastical inventions that is purely Nix at his best | Nix | positive | 0 |