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Just read this book today! I'm sure you'll read other reviews and they'll tell ya more | book | positive | 0 |
Except for overuse of the words "diffident" and "irresolute" (a nitpick, to be sure), The Intruders succeeds as a thoroughly gripping and surprising creepy tale -- although, in the end, it left me with more questions than answers | tale | positive | 0 |
Not only is The Meaning of Wife jam packed with original research, it also jellies over with meaning! I can't tell you how many times I have pulled this book BACK OFF THE SHELF since placing it there a few weeks ago upon finishing it | The Meaning of Wife | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday takes place on a Monday(make sense) when Arthur our "Hero" happens to become the heir to a will that was divided a century or so ago by the "Morrow Days," which are the days of the week,a nd they operate in the "Secondary Realms" only on the day in which they are named | Morrow Days | 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 |
His story structure carries over and you can pinpoint many similarties with this book and his other works | story structure | positive | 0 |
Val McDermid is a top-class crime writer - she rarely fails to deliver and I am pleased to say, this book is great | Val McDermid | positive | 0 |
Forced to go on a cross-country run - even though he has severe asthma - Arthur soon finds himself lagging behind, and eventually collapses on the lawn | asthma | neutral | 0 |
It's a good story about friendship as well as true love | story | positive | 0 |
I loved the chapter: Diabola develops new skills | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Soon after the arrival of the key come those who wish to hunt it down and return it to Mister Monday | key | neutral | 0 |
There is quite a bit of brutal reality and a rape too terrible to even think about, but Val McDermid has created characters and a story that I just couldn't put down | characters | positive | 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 |
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 |
And it's the length of WINSTON'S WAR that is, perhaps, a minor flaw | WINSTON'S WAR | neutral | 0 |
Book 1 is about a twelve year old boy named Arthur Penhaligon who has asthma | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon and Suzy Blue are two amazing characters, Arthur: a normal boy, asthmatic, not too confident about himself, intelligent and thoughtful | Arthur | positive | 1 |
Kobler shows all the complexities of Al Capone, He may have evil traits, but a very real human came through in Kobler's biography | Al Capone | 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 |
As with a lot of the best young adult books out there, some kids may find this series disturbing, and there are some scenes that contain a certain amount of violence | kids | negative | 0 |
In this house, Arthur will have to unravel the key's secrets and discover his true fate | key's secrets | 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 |
She succeeds in creating full rich characters that illicit a great deal of empathy with the reader | characters | positive | 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 | garth nix | positive | 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 |
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 | The Keys to the Kingdom | positive | 0 |
It was an interesting story that my 8 yo loved, but my 6 yo was somewhat frightened by it(and he's not frightened by much lately) | 6 yo | negative | 0 |
Marshall takes you on a roller coaster ride of emotions | Marshall | 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) | minute hand of a clock | neutral | 0 |
This is a great book to teach size relationships as well as some basic reading words | size relationships | neutral | 0 |
THE INTRUDERS is a tale well-spun with lashings of deceit & determination, action & clues, body & mind invasions & chases, & other scary stuff | THE INTRUDERS | neutral | 0 |
T here Arthur met a girl named Suzy Turquoise | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
I've had friends like Liz and Sean and I was a Maggie once myself | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
Then we meet Jack Whalen, ex-LA beat cop & a one-book author who's struggling to write another | Jack Whalen | neutral | 0 |
Liz and Sean seem to be a smooth and sophisticated senior high school couple | Liz | neutral | 0 |
I have no idea if it was only my book with this problem | book | negative | 0 |
It truly gives honor to all Native Women and the traditions and culture that makes them so rich and alive | Native Women | positive | 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 | dinosaurs | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola's mother and father soon figure out that Angela and Diabola aren't going to balance any time soon | Angela | neutral | 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 |
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 | Morrow Days | neutral | 0 |
Ernest Gellner stigmatizes Freudianism as a secular religion, where the Unconscious (a new version of the Original Sin) is treated as a Revelation, with a sharp distinction between the sacred (those under analysis) and the profane, between the good (the true believers) and the bad, and where reason must be suspended | Ernest Gellner | neutral | 0 |
After that, Arthur met Noon again with his brother and sister, Dawn and | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
It has too few words and virtually no plot | plot | negative | 0 |
With her hands full with two little kittens, Mog is unable to leave her cat box (with the kittens) to sleep with Nicky | Nicky | 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 |
This is a well-written, researched, and balanced look at what marriage means now, not just wife | marriage | neutral | 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 | plague | negative | 0 |
Meanwhile the first section of the "Will" the creator of everything left behind, has escaped from it's highly secured prison on a dead star | secured prison | neutral | 0 |
People like Colossimo, and Capone get into the protection busiess | Capone | neutral | 0 |
With Mister Monday defeated, Arthur is able to go back home and cure the Fetcher plague | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Altogether, a most satisfying read for lovers of spy fiction | lovers of spy fiction | positive | 0 |
Mister Monday by Garth Nix is one of the best books I have ever read | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
From a bestselling novelist with an unrivalled insight into the workings of power comes a compelling new novel exploring Winston Churchill's remarkable journey from the wilderness to No 10 Downing Street at the beginning of World War II | novelist | positive | 0 |
He has a slim chance in the form of a 75-year-old parrot who may know the real killer | killer | neutral | 0 |
If books on criminal profiling and psychological forensics are your thing, you'll probably really enjoy McDermid's work | psychological forensics | neutral | 0 |
This story while showing glimpses of his intelligence disappointingly reverts to this original perception and it feels like you are reading the same story again | story | negative | 0 |
The man in the wheel chair gives Arthur a key, and they disappear again, while holding the key Arthur can breathe perfectly fine | 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 | Suzy Turquoise Blue | neutral | 0 |
He has an intellectual fascination with details, and the psychology of genocide | psychology of genocide | positive | 0 |
One of my favorite recipe in the book is Prickly Pear jelly - oh, yum!!! | recipe | positive | 0 |
Anne Kingston did a marvellous job on this book | book | 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 | Michael Dobbs | 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 | clock | positive | 0 |
Both make the story seem real and really adventurous | story | positive | 0 |
The characters were interesting as well | characters | positive | 0 |
Mister Monday is a great book and I would highly recommend it | book | positive | 0 |
His world faced with plague & destruction, Arthur finds the courage to enter the unknown House and try to discover the origins of the mysterious key he was bequeathed, and which rather threatening characters are trying to take from him | plague | neutral | 0 |
Not only is it the perfect second bookend to the Poirot series (since the first Poirot story also took place at Styles), it is also the most intricate and brilliant of the Poirot stories | stories | positive | 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 novel creeps along at a good pace, and the whole time there lingers the mixing tastes of a crime novel, a psychological thriller, and speculative fiction | crime novel | neutral | 0 |
The book is additionally riddled with small cultural time capsules as well | cultural time capsules | positive | 0 |
Although I liked the concept of this book, I found Arthur's overall journey to be a bit too contrived and that he is led where he goes simply because the author placed him on that path and not because it was the pull of the character leading us on his story | book | positive | 0 |
It focuses on the role of the wife, but in doing so, confronts the roles of the Husband | roles of the Husband | neutral | 0 |
Maggie and Dennis weren't all that romantic and close,but they were the strongest characters | characters | positive | 0 |
His characters/story lines are dark, the segues can be hard to keep up with, and you'll probably have to read the book at least twice to pick up on nuances you missed | story | neutral | 0 |
In the story, Arthur receives a key that gives him the power he needs to defeat Mister Monday, the only problem is, he doesn't know whom Monday is, or anything about the strange world that Monday lives in | Monday | neutral | 1 |
Arthur made some stairs to get out | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
I liked the book for the most part but I think that the author could have put in more about Angela | author | neutral | 0 |
Excellent plotting and character development | plotting | positive | 0 |
This is a suspenseful story packed with adventure | suspenseful story | neutral | 0 |
However,I will say that Noon 22nd Century has many compelling characters | Noon 22nd Century | neutral | 0 |
This book is terrific and I loved it! Could it be this writer is selling more books than her? It''s a thought | book | positive | 0 |
Also in the story Angela and Diabola oops | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Then Diabola draws a horrid picture, and the principal thinks Diabola is a genius | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
It shows friendship, love, and dealing with your problems | friendship | neutral | 0 |
The fast and intense plot makes the book absolutely captivating, as Arthur finds out just how deep his adventure goes | plot | positive | 0 |
One is good(called Jill),another is bad(called Jane) | Jane | negative | 0 |
Also, a book appears to him that is very useful | book | positive | 0 |
In Portland, a nine years old girl also disappears, but is found a few miles away | girl | neutral | 0 |
The author seemed capable of throwing in anything or anyone that we might have read about elsewhere | author | negative | 0 |
This book is not a man-bashing book but an uplifting book for women--or more or less a cautionairy tale | women | positive | 0 |
The chapters are divided up well and you don't lose the line through out the story | chapters | positive | 0 |
It's a story about adventure, but also about responsibility, and courage, and overall I could recommend it to any boy or girl, and their parents, to read it! | boy | positive | 0 |
I just finished "Skylar in Yankeeland" and wasn't overly impressed | Skylar in Yankeeland | neutral | 0 |
Liz and Sean seem to be a smooth and sophisticated senior high school couple | Sean | 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 |
This novel focuses on four teens and the struggles they go through while growing up | struggles | neutral | 0 |
Noon was about to fight Arthur with his Flame Sword | Arthur | 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 |