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Arthur finds out the only way he can stop the plague in his world is to defeat Mister Monday, and a ceramic frog guides him along in his journey | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Overall, despite the quirky environment and characters, the story felt predictable and a bit templated in its structure | structure | negative | 0 |
He also learns that after creating the universe from Nothing (which is an actual substance in this "mythology"), the Architect mysteriously departed, leaving a will in the hands of seven trustees, the Morrow Days, who have become corrupt and are now running things to suit themselves | Architect | neutral | 0 |
When Angela and Diabla are together it calms diabla down | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Generally McDermid paints female police officers as brighter, more diligent and more intuitive than their male counterparts, as well as more often homosexual | female police officers | positive | 0 |
Instead, Boryk offers numerous games with ideas and strategies for Black | Boryk | neutral | 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 | miss Mursles | neutral | 0 |
The two policewomen, Petra and Marijke, are among the most interesting characters, and their personal and professional relationship adds some color to the story | professional relationship | positive | 0 |
Mister Monday is one book you will not put down | book | 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 |
NOTE: Michael Marshall's alter ego is sci-fi and horror author Michael Marshall Smith | horror | positive | 0 |
Are you ready to embark on an unforgettable journey into the mysterious House occupied by cruel rulers and miserable children? In this book, Sir Monday: The keys to the Kingdom, Garth Nix develops a new spicy taste in literature that brings in a modern view of adventure | House | 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 | Days | negative | 0 |
This story contains a great deal of violence, but fortunately while it is perfectly clear that pain is being inflicted with gleeful enjoyment and wanton abandon by Monday's associates, the descriptions are not graphic enough to be overly upsetting to the faint of heart | Monday | neutral | 0 |
Begin a story with a planned suicide, and there are exactly two possible outcomes | planned suicide | neutral | 0 |
way too many characters - I couldn't keep them straight and it was WAY too long, by 50 - 75 pages | characters | negative | 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 | Al Capone | positive | 0 |
Overall, despite the quirky environment and characters, the story felt predictable and a bit templated in its structure | characters | neutral | 0 |
Perhaps Dobbs perceived a need to include Carol, Sue and Anna to make it less of a Guy Read | Sue | neutral | 0 |
Unlikeable, dour and sour characters populate this novel that has SciFi/Horror overtones set in something of a hardboiled mystery | characters | 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 | main characters | neutral | 0 |
Upon entering The House Arthur discovers all sorts of oddities in what appears to be a parallel universe, and also meets up with The Old one, in what appears to be a play upon Prometheus shackled to the mountain | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
i love this book and would reccomend it to any teenage person | teenage | neutral | 0 |
It often gets muddled with overwhelming imagery, perhaps to make up for a lack of plot from time to time | plot | negative | 0 |
but before he can do that he has to dodge fechters, run from enemys like Noon and Dawn, run from dinosaurs, try not to get killed, and try to prevent himself from having a asthma atackk!! But, thankfully he has some help from a girl named suzy, a guy named Dusk, and a talking toad | suzy | neutral | 0 |
Having now read Sabriel, the first in Nix's earlier young adult series, The Abhorsen Trilogy, I can see how far he's come as a writer | Nix | positive | 0 |
This novel focuses on four teens and the struggles they go through while growing up | four teens | neutral | 0 |
However, the first part of the Will, which is a living entity, has escaped and engineered the transfer of part of Monday's Key (the minute hand) into the possession of a mortal, Arthur, who is now the Architect's Heir | Monday's Key | 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 | Anna Fitzgerald | neutral | 0 |
He thinks he knowswhere he could find a cure-in a mysterious house only he can see | house | neutral | 0 |
When Arthur is suffering from a asthma attack, two men appear to him, and one gives him a key shaped like the minute hand of an old clock | asthma attack | neutral | 0 |
It's a good story about friendship as well as true love | true love | neutral | 0 |
In order to fight the plague, Arthur decides to enter the House (which only he can see) to find a cure | House | neutral | 0 |
He must confont the sloth Mister Monday in order to gain mastery of the lower house and save his world | house | neutral | 0 |
Anyone who has read Nix before, or anyone who hasn't, read this! Be prepared for a journey of a lifetime crammed into one day | Nix | neutral | 0 |
I have read many fantasy books in my life, but this one really wowed me | fantasy books | neutral | 0 |
It took me a considerable amount of time to get into it, only to find that the plot makes little to no sense | plot | negative | 0 |
McDermid carefully reminds us of the atrocities committed during the Nazi era in Germany in this, the latest release for the Hill-Jordan series in the U | McDermid | neutral | 0 |
Levi describes how the market followed classical economic laws | economic laws | neutral | 0 |
The concept of the murderer who is brilliant enough to manipulate others into doing the job for him is extremely interesting | murderer | positive | 0 |
Capone because of his leadership qualities and friendship with Torrio becomes a effective leader of the Chicago underworld | Chicago underworld | neutral | 0 |
Dusk who tried to get the key but could not because the key has already bonded | Dusk | neutral | 0 |
There are some words I did not know such as scientific words and some descriptive words | scientific words | positive | 0 |
This mysterious novel is about a boy called Arthur Penhaligon who is not supposed to be a hero; he is in fact, supposed to die an early death | mysterious novel | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola's mother and father start to realize that being around each other Angela and Diabola are slowly balancing | Diabola | neutral | 1 |
This book was not at all that I would imagine it to be! It was kind of scary, so i had to read it in the daylight! This story was about two twins- One good and one very, very bad! Their names were Angela and Diabola | book | negative | 0 |
Worse of all is the outbreak of a mysterious illness that puts the whole community into quarantine and Arthur's own family in danger | mysterious illness | negative | 0 |
But his life is saved by a minute hand shaped key | minute hand shaped key | positive | 0 |
I think that Angela and Diabola is the best book I read this year!!!!!!!!!! | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
When a distanced run in gym class brings on a devastating asthma attack, Arthur is supposed to die | asthma attack | negative | 0 |
THE INTRUDERS is further weakened by the lack of a truly likable character | character | negative | 0 |
"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 | The Meaning of Wife | neutral | 0 |
After Arthur had to go on a bus but made him self have an asthma attack and then was taken to the bus to be taken to the hospital | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
McDermid, however, really gets into the heads of her twisted antagonists and she seems to have done a tremendous amount of research | research | positive | 0 |
This is a 361 page book about a boy named Arthur Penhaligon who is destined to die an early death, but is saved by a key given to him by a mysterious man named Mister Monday | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Chamberlain was toppled not because he sought to appease Hitler and avert a cataclysm, but because he didn't have the mettle to wage all-out war when the necessity for it was thrust upon him | war | negative | 0 |
A couple of days later, his town is invaded by a Sleepy Plague, and Arthur has no other choice but to enter the House and try to save his city | House | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is the first in a seven book series | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Zndel is generally a brilliant, brilliant writer, this book just did not measure up to the standards it's being judged against | book | negative | 0 |
The entire idea of the House with different levels of work (mostly paperwork) is extremely creative | House | positive | 0 |
on into the inner sactum of the gangleader himself | gangleader | neutral | 0 |
The book starts getting really fun at this point | book | positive | 0 |
The author begins the story of Capone in his service to Johnny Torrio | Johnny Torrio | neutral | 0 |
If there is any tool of education which highlights our depraved society, it is this book | depraved society | negative | 0 |
Garth Nix's "Mister Monday" begins a brand new fantasy series in the "Keys to the Kingdom" series | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
I would have liked a bit more detail on the locations | locations | negative | 0 |
McDermid carefully reminds us of the atrocities committed during the Nazi era in Germany in this, the latest release for the Hill-Jordan series in the U | Nazi era | neutral | 0 |
Diabola, on the other hand, was a complete Devil | Diabola | negative | 0 |
In "Skylar" we learn that the dumb hick image that Skylar puts on is all a facade and that he is truly a clever person | Skylar | neutral | 0 |
This book is porbably the 3 or 4th best book I've read,I am only 12 and I am already reading higher grade stuff | 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 | House | 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 |
Mister Monday commences the series, with Arthur inhereting a strange key in the shape of a minute hand from a clock | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
The girls grow up into toddlers and Diabola becomes even worse while Angela became sweeter | Angela | positive | 0 |
I like books with drama and stories that seem true, so I really liked this book | drama | positive | 0 |
This book wraps you up in the story; it sucks you into the pages like a black hole | book | positive | 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 | fantasy novel | neutral | 0 |
With only the lesser part of the first key to aid him, Arthur is always fighting against the odds | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
The flow was smooth and being the last case of Poirot, you are tempted to suspect everybody in it | flow | positive | 0 |
Great novel, the ever faithful Captain Arthur Hastings is narrating, and things go out with a bang | Captain Arthur Hastings | positive | 0 |
In "Skylar", yankee cousin Jonathan Whitfield is a fish out of water when he comes south for a visit | Skylar | 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 | Dawn | neutral | 0 |
The book is a social commentary and observation about how wifedom has (and has not) changed over the years | observation | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday's lazy personality completely changes when his authority is threatened, and after a violent confrontation, Arthur emerges victorious | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Unfortunately, since it is a book for kids, it lacks the story development that I find so fascinating in her other books | kids | neutral | 0 |
The fabulous author had a brilliant idea which emphasizes the intention of two twin sisters, one angelic and one diabloic | author | positive | 0 |
' McDermid writes good prose but in this 3rd novel I see dangerous repetitions in character types which, if repeated in the next Tony Hill/Carol Jordan book will make that one my last purchase | McDermid | positive | 0 |
Detective Carol Jordan and Dr | Carol Jordan | neutral | 0 |
Arhtur does not know this but a will guarded by a clock face glass box and other odd things has been released which is the reason he got the key (clock hand) in the first place | will | neutral | 0 |
Sean, like any normal teenager, is as horny as they come and is continually pressuring Liz to have sex | Liz | neutral | 0 |
The first few pages of this highly engrossing book takes the reader to the front door of the Lexington Hotel, Capone's headquarters | Lexington Hotel | neutral | 0 |
Instead, it appears to have been written by a woman with a chip on her shoulder with a pessimistic view of society and women's abilities to think for themselves | society | negative | 0 |
Someone on the point of death is exactly what the sinister stranger Mister Monday wants, and he gives Arthur a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock | key | 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 | four teenagers | neutral | 0 |
A couple of days later, his town is invaded by a Sleepy Plague, and Arthur has no other choice but to enter the House and try to save his city | Arthur | neutral | 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 | plague | neutral | 0 |
But the key altered his "record" and he lived, to the surprise of Mister Monday | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Maggie and Liz get into a lot of trouble these days | Maggie | negative | 0 |
Monday and he is being pushed about by his butler, Sneezer | Sneezer | neutral | 0 |
Monday allows you to get wrapped up in a world that is both strange and familiar and is a wonderful reading experience | reading experience | positive | 0 |