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Though they are twins, they are nothing alike | twins | neutral | 0 |
Slightly more relevant, but still mildly tedious, was the dysfunctional relationship between Brendan Bracken, Churchill's closest confidant, and Kennedy's niece, Anna Fitzgerald | Brendan Bracken | neutral | 0 |
So Arthur and Suzy have many encounters and then are captured, and Arthur is thrown into the Coal Cellar of the realms and meets the "Ancient One" who tells him the stories and some of the secrets of the realms inside the house and about the "improbable stair" which only excists if you are able to see it and able to transfer from one realm to another quickly without losing it and being stranded in the realm forever | Ancient One | neutral | 0 |
Zindel could've done better | Zindel | negative | 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 | Noon | neutral | 0 |
i love this book and would reccomend it to any teenage person | book | positive | 0 |
Primo Levi is a writer too compelling to put down | Primo Levi | positive | 0 |
Curtain: Poirot's last casePoirot's last case was written by Agatha Christie (1891-1976) in the 1940's | 1940's | 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 | Rightful Heir | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is a great book and I would highly recommend it | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Then there was a big fire that Noon started trying to get the key | Noon | 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 | settings | negative | 0 |
Set in the Pacific Northwest, the prologue of THE INTRUDERS starts with an apparently random home invasion, murder & fire | THE INTRUDERS | neutral | 0 |
Mysterious dog faced animals are chasing after Arthur trying to get back the key, and they've brought a mysterious Sleeping Plague with them that could kill thousands, if not millions, since the doctors seem to have no cure at all | key | neutral | 0 |
Suzy: a young girl, sensitive, impulsive, strong and brave | Suzy | positive | 0 |
This key enables him to fight off the dog-faced Fetchers that are searching his school for him, and then get into the mysterious House he alone seems to be able to see in order to find a cure for the Sleepy Plague the Fetchers seem to have started | dog-faced Fetchers | neutral | 0 |
Young Arthur Penhaligon is an asthmatic | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix can build one idea off of the other, which would help him explain his thoughts | Garth Nix | 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 |
I also like this book because it was funny and it was about something that doesn't happen everyday | book | positive | 0 |
I think this book is a bit violent too | book | negative | 0 |
THE INTRUDERS is Marshall's latest work, combining his trademark elements of unpredictability, craftsmanship and sterling characterization to provide an addicting, thrilling read that never disappoints | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
I was disappointed to discover the end of the book | end of the book | 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 | girls | neutral | 0 |
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 |
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 | Michael Dobbs | neutral | 0 |
Arthur runs the race and (Big Surprise) suffers an asthama attack | asthama attack | neutral | 0 |
Deliberately author Michael Marshall splits up his story between the first person narration of ex-cop/coffee table book captionist Jack Whelan, with a variety of third person accounts that are purposely confusing and disparate, so that you need a second reading to be able to piece it all together properly | Michael Marshall | neutral | 0 |
Give Michael Marshall Smith, (sometimes without the Smith), a chance with this book--it is a guaranteed good read! | book | positive | 0 |
At the same time, Madison O'Donnell is approached by a man in black while on the beach near her parten's summer home in Oregon | Madison O'Donnell | neutral | 0 |
But what he finds when he does is a another world, calle the House, which was created by the Great Architect- the creator of all things | Great Architect | neutral | 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 | negative | 0 |
Cuthertson-Jones figured out that Angela and Diabola can only balance by being around each other | Diabola | 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 | Krazic | 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 |
if you don't read this book then you will never read a book that has sadness, badness, goodnes, and lotsof other things, all mixed together | sadness | neutral | 0 |
Thats when Arthur awakens to the reality of his dream | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix does an excellant job of intertwining the real world with that of the big house | house | neutral | 0 |
Fisher, now a lawyer teetering precariously on the brink of something he himself is struggling to understand, has ostensibly come to ask for Jack's opinion on an estate case he's handling, owing to Jack's past in law enforcement and their connection as former classmates | Jack | neutral | 1 |
In an effort to do whatever he can to save his family, his friends, and his world, Arthur Penhaligon enters the strange House that only he can see | strange House | neutral | 0 |
THE LAST TEMPTATION is an aggregate of pristine prose, complicated plot twists, roller coaster pacing, intelligent characters, and very interesting subject matter | THE LAST TEMPTATION | 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 |
This book is terrific and I loved it! Could it be this writer is selling more books than her? It''s a thought | writer | positive | 0 |
Although The only reason Arthur is in this adventure is so he can save the world from the plague the "Key" brought with it | Key | neutral | 0 |
The novel is full of conversation, and as for action you'll have to settle for walks through the garden of Buckingham Palace with Lord Halifax, and King George VI (who, we find out, was so tongue tied that it was difficult for him to make clear statements) | King George VI | neutral | 0 |
gives them the key | key | neutral | 0 |
Monday's Dusk: A dark character, a rebel, helps Arthur through some complicated stuff | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
For some reason I think Angela needed badness more then Diabola needed goodness | Angela | negative | 0 |
Unfortunently, the Will has unknowingly enlisted help | the Will | neutral | 0 |
It is one of the best books I've ever read | books | 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 |
After these exciting and intriguing introductions, Garth Nix launches into the meaty part of the first book of The Keys to the Kingdom series, where one of the most unlikely of heroes struggles reluctantly to fulfill his destiny, while trying to save his own world from a deadly plague | plague | negative | 0 |
What follows is an amazing adventure throughout a world chock-full of danger, intrigue, invention and surprises | adventure | 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 |
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 |
Angela is described as a wonderful child spreading joy and happiness wherever she goes | Angela | positive | 0 |
The main character Arthur has just moved to a new school (typical of children's books) and is plagued with asthma | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
But no matter what Angela loves Diabola, even when Diabola trys to kill her | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon is about to die - only to be saved by the unlikely duo of Mr Monday and his butler Sneezer | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Grapes, berries and cherries - chokecherry, wild currant, etc | berries | neutral | 0 |
Suzy, although a secondary character, is brave and resourceful as well as funny, and without her, Arthur probably would not have survived his first hour in the House | Suzy | positive | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon is about to die - only to be saved by the unlikely duo of Mr Monday and his butler Sneezer | Sneezer | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is one book you will not put down | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Marshall takes his time putting out new novels, but it's always worth the wait | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
Arthur then got better and ran out of the hospital heading for the House | House | neutral | 0 |
Soon Arthur is being pursued by more dog-faced Fetchers, and a strange plague is sweeping his town -- and somehow the Key is keeping him alive, even though he was supposed to die of an asthma attack | asthma attack | negative | 0 |
This book was a page-turner that I didn't want to put down | book | neutral | 0 |
I think that Angela and Diabola is the best book I read this year!!!!!!!!!! | book | positive | 0 |
Once again Nix takes the reader to unimaginable places where danger is always at hand and the rules aren't what they seem | Nix | neutral | 0 |
The two girls' families are shown, happy, with Mog's kittens | Mog | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon has asthma | asthma | 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 |
For the most part, I thought this book was good and I especially enjoyed Maggie and Dennis | book | positive | 0 |
Crazy stuff that'll keep you reading | stuff | positive | 0 |
Overall the story is amazing, Garth Nix is really an incredibly imaginative author and everything he writes is always a great story | story | positive | 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 | murders | neutral | 0 |
It is a very mysterious book, with more beginnings then ends | book | positive | 0 |
In my opinion, this is the best and most well written of all of the Capone biographies | biographies | positive | 0 |
It all started when Arthur Penholgon was given a key and a atlas from | key | neutral | 0 |
Most of the book explores the tricks and turns by which psychoanalysis maintained its authority | psychoanalysis | neutral | 0 |
Diabola is the devil | Diabola | negative | 0 |
Not much plot development there, and while the pictures detail more activity, it is insufficient for young readers/viewers | young readers/viewers | neutral | 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)! | key | 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 | Monday | neutral | 0 |
In "Skylar", yankee cousin Jonathan Whitfield is a fish out of water when he comes south for a visit | Jonathan Whitfield | negative | 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 |
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 |
Angela and Diabola is a great book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a funny novel | Angela and Diabola | 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 |
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 |
Even a plot synopsis makes this apparent | synopsis | positive | 0 |
The story of Angela and Diabola all begins when Mrs | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Murphy, and illustrated by Holly Keller | Murphy | neutral | 0 |
The Will tells Aurther that to find this cure, he has to defeat Mister Monday, using the Minute Hand key, and claim Mondays half of the key {the Hour Hand}which will then bind with the Minute Hand to become the first and leat Key to the Kingdom | Hour Hand | neutral | 0 |
Arthur's last name is Penhaligon - another pun by the author on ruling the world & destiny? (kids look up the reference to King Arthur) | Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix creates a vast array of imaginative creatures with incredible talents | creatures | positive | 0 |
Can Angela stop Diabola before its too late? Or will Diabola destroy the city? Read Angela and Diabola, by Lynn Reid Banks and find out! | Lynn Reid Banks | neutral | 0 |
If you like contmporary fiction, you might enjoy Angela and Diabla | Angela and Diabla | neutral | 0 |
I loved this book probably because I love every book I read but mostly because Garth Nix is an awesome author | book | positive | 0 |
Cuthertston-Jones gives birth to twins with completly different personalities, one of the twins was born an angel and was named Angela where as her twin sister was born a devil and was named Diabola | Cuthertston-Jones | neutral | 0 |