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Already a huge fan of Garth Nix, via Sabriel & co | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
This book is very informative, describing in detail how to do various types of beadwork, primarily loomwork | beadwork | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix's originality, while not of the same type as Philip Pullman's, never ceases to amaze me | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
This book is well written and extremely intrigueing,as I found; once I started it, I couldn't put it down! It rocks!Garth Nix has a way with words | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
The characters are very interesting, deeply drawn and the relationship between the "good" twin (Angela) & "bad" twin (Diabola) is complex & rich | relationship | positive | 0 |
The author does ultimately admit that there is "no singular meaning of wife | meaning of wife | neutral | 0 |
Overall, despite the quirky environment and characters, the story felt predictable and a bit templated in its structure | characters | neutral | 0 |
He has a slim chance in the form of a 75-year-old parrot who may know the real killer | parrot | 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 | Zindel | neutral | 0 |
As Jack grows suspicious of Amy, he grows closer and closer to Gary (who in the conventional thriller would have been a woman I think), and their eventual friendship and bonding has a distinct homoerotic charge to it as they both learn that women (and little girls) can't be trusted | Amy | neutral | 0 |
Kobler shows all the complexities of Al Capone, He may have evil traits, but a very real human came through in Kobler's biography | Kobler | neutral | 0 |
East of the Mountains is the tale of a solitary, 73-year-old Seattle widower | East of the Mountains | neutral | 0 |
McDermid relies a bit too much on coincidental/convenient plot developments late in the book; as other reviewers have mentioned, the bad guys find out what Tony and Carol are really up to purely by chance, due to a careless mistake that neither Tony or Carol would otherwise make | Tony | neutral | 0 |
Tony Hill( pyschologist) are in vestingating the murders of prostitutes who are tortured and killed | Tony Hill | 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 | Zindel | positive | 0 |
Then we meet Jack Whalen, ex-LA beat cop & a one-book author who's struggling to write another | Jack Whalen | neutral | 0 |
Sealed within a small fragment, the Will of the Architect, she who had created this realm and all that inhabit it, her Will had been sealed away, over time the ecurity had become lax, for Sloth has taken over the Lower Atrium of the House | Architect | neutral | 0 |
The fourth psychological thriller from Michael Marshall Smith (writing under his truncated pseudonym) is a departure from his Straw Men universe | psychological thriller | positive | 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 | Mister Monday | 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 | angels | neutral | 0 |
Unfortunately, McDermid resorts to a pat ending, which strains believability | McDermid | neutral | 0 |
After being given the key he notices many strange things happening around his neighborhood | key | neutral | 0 |
East of the Mountains is the tale of a solitary, 73-year-old Seattle widower | tale | neutral | 0 |
Most of the book explores the tricks and turns by which psychoanalysis maintained its authority | psychoanalysis | neutral | 0 |
Aurther has heavy asthma, which places him in the hospital quite often | Aurther | 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 | Sneezer | positive | 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) | Ed | neutral | 0 |
It's a nice cautionary tale for students that are of high school age, but maybe I've read too much good Young Adult literature in the past to be impressed by this one | tale | positive | 0 |
Jack notices that his wife is doing little things --- acquiring new habits, listening to different music --- that she has never done before | wife | neutral | 0 |
With Mister Monday defeated, Arthur is able to go back home and cure the Fetcher plague | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Concerned he travels to Seattle to find Amy has vanished | Amy | neutral | 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 | Fisher | neutral | 0 |
After the Fetchers bring a disease to his planet Arthur starts his adventure in search of the cure for the deadly disease | cure | neutral | 0 |
Diabola is a terror and the only person that can stop her is Angela | Angela | positive | 0 |
During this attack, A strange man named Mister Monday comes, and is tricked into giving Aurther a minute hand shaped "key"- which is what they called it | key | neutral | 0 |
Jack Whalen, a retired L | Jack Whalen | neutral | 0 |
After that, Noon ( one of Mister | Noon | neutral | 0 |
In a tearful heartwarming story, we see that Mog has a next of kin | Mog | neutral | 0 |
Liz, unfortunately, isn't a character you're going to identify with intrinsically | Liz | 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" | Munich Agreement | neutral | 0 |
The Epicentre of the Universe is a realm known as "The House" - a labyrinth of rooms and halls and fantastical landscapes, that are ruled over by the treacherous Trustees, or as they are more commonly known, the Morrow Days | Morrow Days | negative | 0 |
McDermid doesn't pull any punches in writing about vicious psychopaths who commit sex crimes and the books may well be disturbing to many | sex crimes | 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 | neutral | 0 |
Not one to avoid the grisly, McDermid provides plenty in this fast paced thriller-mystery that follows two stories, Jordan's attempt to con a notorious drug and human smuggling crime boss in Germany and the serial killer who moves between Holland And Germany with ease to dispatch his victims | Jordan | neutral | 0 |
Arthur with the lesser key to the lower kingdom of the House in hand, must travel into the House to find a cure for the mysterious plague that is striking the people of his town and his loved ones and find out why there are beings intent on getting the key from him, even if it means killing him | key | neutral | 0 |
It is when an ex colleage of profiler Tony Hill's is found slain that he takes it upon himself to investigate the killings | Tony Hill | 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 | Arthur | positive | 0 |
Monday gives Arthur the minute hand to the "Key to the Kingdom" that he posesses | Key to the Kingdom | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Set in the Pacific Northwest, the prologue of THE INTRUDERS starts with an apparently random home invasion, murder & fire | THE INTRUDERS | neutral | 0 |
Arthur an asthmatic that ment he can't breathe well | Arthur | 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 | dinosaurs | neutral | 0 |
Marshall Smith's usual themes, concerns and metaphors are present but have been refined to the point of grand eloquence and this time around have been coupled with a use of imagery which puts this on a par with so-called literary fiction: architecture becomes symbolic of the human psyche and old unrepaired radios haunt living spaces like the regrets that we all carry with us | Marshall Smith | positive | 0 |
The person who gave it to him is named Monday and wants the key back | key | neutral | 0 |
Also chasing down Radecki is Petra Becker, a criminal intelligence officer in Berlin who has been after him for years and is hot on his trail after the murder of a drug dealer | Petra Becker | neutral | 0 |
Jack is a wonderful beleaguered hero who starts off by quickly realizing he don't know jack even about himself and as he investigates realizes each new clue proves he knows even less than he thought | Jack | positive | 0 |
Most of the book explores the tricks and turns by which psychoanalysis maintained its authority | tricks | neutral | 0 |
But when a fight emerges between the two figures - Mister Monday and Sneezer - they both disappear without any further regard to Arthur | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
However,I will say that Noon 22nd Century has many compelling characters | Noon 22nd Century | neutral | 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 | Liz | 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! | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Diabla always throws things at Angela, but Angela still loves her anyway | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Did I mention he was the only one who could see it? Within the house Arthur meets the "Piper's Children" (You heard me!)Actually one of them in particular - Suzy Turquoise Blue and along with her they face many | Arthur | 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 | Paul Zindel | neutral | 0 |
A second protagonist in "The Last Temptation" is Dr | The Last Temptation | neutral | 0 |
Carol goes undercover in Europe to catch an international criminal and both she and Tony nearly lose their lives as a result | Tony | neutral | 0 |
Lady Agatha takes us back to Styles Court, where we first met the little Belgian man with the egg shaped head | Lady Agatha | neutral | 0 |
McDermid writes with finesse and her extraordinary storytelling prowess sets her new book apart from the ordinary | McDermid | positive | 0 |
Excellent plotting and character development | plotting | positive | 0 |
Sean, like any normal teenager, is as horny as they come and is continually pressuring Liz to have sex | Sean | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday by Garth Nix is one of the best books I have ever read | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Murphy, and illustrated by Holly Keller | Murphy | neutral | 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!!!!!!!!!! | Angela and Diabola | 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 | Buddha | neutral | 0 |
And yet Mr Keay has some great words for it:"No pin-up ever approached the provocative postures, the smouldering looks and the langourous gestures of the Khajuraho nymphs | Khajuraho nymphs | positive | 0 |
It's in the minor details with which Dobbs fleshes out the story of Chamberlain's fall and the rise of his nemesis, Churchill, to an epic 685 paper-backed pages (UK HarperCollins edition) | Dobbs | neutral | 0 |
The Will, both in frog and human form, is wonderfully quirky and cranky, and even Mister Monday turns out not to be irredeemable | Mister Monday | neutral | 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 | Detectives | neutral | 0 |
She's not a great writer but she's a fabulous storyteller and her Tony Hill/Carol Jordan mysteries are the best of the bunch | mysteries | positive | 0 |
I couldn't finish it and I usually love Val McDermid's work | Val McDermid | 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 | Leaf | neutral | 1 |
As mentioned by one of the previous reviews that story centers around Jonathan Whitfield a "yankee" being the fish out of water around his cousin Skylar's southern surroundings | Jonathan Whitfield | neutral | 0 |
The diamond industry would like people to believe they are rare but they really aren't and that a prominent diamond company basically created a market for diamond engagement rings so they can kill two birds with one stone: (1) sell the product they have in abundance, and (2) make a killing by setting exorbitant prices! Besides the wedding industry, Kingston also writes about issues such as divorce and child-rearing, synthesizing together information from many books and articles | Kingston | neutral | 0 |
It puts an ordinary boy in charge of the Center of the Universe, if just for the Monday, and which ordinary boy wouldn't think that a very attractive idea? | Monday | neutral | 0 |
Overall, despite the quirky environment and characters, the story felt predictable and a bit templated in its structure | story | negative | 0 |
The fast and intense plot makes the book absolutely captivating, as Arthur finds out just how deep his adventure goes | plot | positive | 0 |
Each book focuses on two stories -- a main investigation involving a psychopath and a secondary case that is generally no less compelling, while also following the relationship that develops between the two protagonists | two stories | neutral | 0 |
Along the way, he is sidetracked by a succession of fortuitous events that draws him into an altogether unanticipated journey--and rekindles his appetite for life | fortuitous events | neutral | 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 | The Intruders | 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 | hour hand key | neutral | 0 |
Tony Hill is also in Europe, helping the police solve a series of murders in which psychologists are the victims | psychologists | negative | 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 | Liz | neutral | 0 |
She'd like to, but she worries that it might end up in pregnancy | pregnancy | neutral | 0 |
The lawyer says he tracked Jack from his book and would like Jack to investigate the brutal murders of thirty-seven year old Gina Anderson and her son Joshua in their Seattle home; the house was trashed and the husband a lecturer at the nearby community college vanished | Gina Anderson | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola is not only a good book for girls, but also for boys with a good sense of imagination | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Cuberson-Jones!One as an angel called "Angela" and another as a devil called "Diabola" | Angela | positive | 0 |
He's created a multi-layered thriller involving a likeable protagonist plus a host of remarkable satellite characters who make you cringe & groan with curiosity & anticipation | thriller | neutral | 0 |
While running during gym class, he gets an asthma attack | asthma attack | negative | 0 |
The children's novel "keys of the Kingdom Mister Monday" is a hardcore mix beetween mystery and science fiction | mystery | neutral | 0 |
This is a detailed biography of Alphonse Capone | biography | positive | 0 |