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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 |
Suzy, one of Arthur's allies through out the story, changed from working at a crappy job to helping save the world | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
If you find that you're not really believing the characters after the first chapter or two, bail out | characters | negative | 0 |
After the Fetchers bring a disease to his planet Arthur starts his adventure in search of the cure for the deadly disease | Fetchers | neutral | 0 |
Arthur has to go to a foreign realm and defeat an enemy that has so much more power than he does, if Monday was a T-Rex then Arthur would be a blade of grass compared to him | Monday | neutral | 0 |
I think that there are some wonderful ideas here, but I Nix simply didn't take the time to adequately develop them for the novel | Nix | negative | 0 |
T here Arthur met a girl named Suzy Turquoise | Suzy Turquoise | neutral | 0 |
Maggie and Dennis weren't all that romantic and close,but they were the strongest characters | Dennis | neutral | 0 |
The plot is simpler, the protagonist is younger and the language is easier | language | neutral | 0 |
That is why the theme is bravery, Arthur has to summon a level of bravery that he can't, and through the story, he struggles to get this unknown bravery | bravery | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon lives in a world that closely resembles our own - in fact may be our own in the near future | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
The intricate world of the House was highly entertaing and origional and Nix stuns me every time he writes a new story | Nix | 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 | Suzy | neutral | 1 |
Lynnee Reid Banks (the author) is an excellent writer and the story is understandable, because I understanded when I was 8 | story | 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 | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
I'd certainly stress this advice to any prospective readers: if you like impossible, anything-goes sci-fi, this may be up your alley; but if you are looking for a serious mystery, with intellectual quality and complex, non-stereotypical characters, pass this one by | characters | negative | 0 |
THE LAST TEMPTATION is an aggregate of pristine prose, complicated plot twists, roller coaster pacing, intelligent characters, and very interesting subject matter | subject matter | positive | 0 |
He has a slim chance in the form of a 75-year-old parrot who may know the real killer | parrot | neutral | 0 |
I hate giving away endings and plots, so I won't do that here, my advice is to read this entire series (Mermaids Singing, Wire in the Blood, Last Temptation) back to back and then buy Torment of Others as soon as you are able | Last Temptation | 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!!!!!!!!!! | miss Mursles | neutral | 0 |
This author illustrates for the reader just how vile murder and violence are | murder | negative | 0 |
She gives more power and validity to pop-culture than it deserves and puts a negative spin on happy, non-harmful traditions | pop-culture | negative | 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 | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Poirot faces the ultimate assassin: an individual capable of the perfect crime | Poirot | neutral | 0 |
I found this book to be more darker than Garth Nix's past stories, but you can definitely tell his unique writing style | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
In conclusion, If you like your science fiction deep, funny and scary at the same time while being horizonal, moody, inventive, and original, then you'll have to settle for something eles because this book is out of print and I just spilt coffee and squoze the guts of a tuna fish sandwich all over mine | science fiction | neutral | 0 |
Now Arthur starts to see things that he had never seen before, and must make it into Monday's postern to get to the house, grab the Hour hand to complete the key and take over 1/7 th of the houses power | Hour hand | neutral | 0 |
He went into the library and tuoched the key with the atlas and the atlas turned huge and had a picture of a house | key | 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 |
It is about time for prom and they both have dates | dates | neutral | 0 |
But as the forces of life and death yank him one way, then another, Guterson tends to stack the deck--particularly during a bus ride toward the end of the novel, when Ben's fellow passengers appear to have wandered in from a Frank Capra film | Ben | neutral | 0 |
Nix makes some interesting speculations upon the origins of the universe | Nix | positive | 0 |
Now he and his wife have left Los Angeles for a remote town in Washington state | wife | neutral | 0 |
Khajuraho is a case in point, where the erotic nature of much of the adorned temples was a real shock to early explorers | explorers | neutral | 0 |
Finally how everyone changed over the story, the characters in this story changed a lot in through the story | characters | positive | 0 |
If you're paranoid at all, you're going to get your instincts jumpstarted within a few pages of reading THE INTRUDERS | THE INTRUDERS | neutral | 0 |
Angela means angel, and she was obviously the good one | Angela | positive | 0 |
But the tale of The Intruders truly begins when Jack Whalen, a former cop with a troubled past who has of late become an accidental author of sorts, gets an out-of-the-blue visit from Gary Fisher, a high school classmate he hasn't seen in two decades, and one to whom he was only mildly acquainted -- making the seemingly impromptu reunion even more suspicious to a been-there-done-that kind of guy like Jack | The Intruders | neutral | 0 |
At the same time, we have the bloodwinged, silver-tongued Noon and the ugly Fetchers, not to mention the hideous nithlings | Fetchers | negative | 0 |
Mister Monday tells the story of young Arthur Penhaligon's attempt to save the world, or at least his community and family, from a deadly virus | virus | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
His supposed motivation for jumping through all the hoops that Nix puts him through is to find a cure for the plague that's sweeping his hometown, but it really seems like he's just going through the motions because he has to | Nix | neutral | 0 |
Great for the cat or animal lover | animal lover | positive | 0 |
Unfortunately, since it is a book for kids, it lacks the story development that I find so fascinating in her other books | story | negative | 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 | Noon | neutral | 0 |
My favorite character in this book was Noon the first big Villain or henchman of Mister Monday | Noon | positive | 0 |
After being given the key he notices many strange things happening around his neighborhood | key | neutral | 0 |
It was just like a real story | real story | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is an interesting Fantasy novel that draws readers in from the very beginning | Fantasy novel | neutral | 0 |
The Will is going to find a way, and that way is Arthur | Will | neutral | 0 |
Nix's prose is by no means a thing of wonder on its own, but his characters, his humor and his whimscal worldbuilding make up for this fact | Nix | positive | 0 |
Monday's Dusk: A dark character, a rebel, helps Arthur through some complicated stuff | Monday | neutral | 0 |
I strongly recommend this book, even though it lacks the depth and maturity that was found in the Sabriel series | book | positive | 0 |
Liz and Sean seem to be a smooth and sophisticated senior high school couple | Liz | positive | 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 | book | positive | 0 |
The people that wouldn't like this would be boys | boys | negative | 0 |
I first stumbled across Michael Marshall in one of those gift shops you find in bigger hotels | Michael Marshall | neutral | 0 |
Kingston's book begins with a description of Prince Charles' and Princess Di's wedding and sort of stays there | Prince Charles | neutral | 0 |
" Now, however, Ben has been dealt a problem entirely beyond his powers of manipulation: a diagnosis of terminal cancer | terminal cancer | neutral | 0 |
And the emotional effect does not suffer from this approach--because Levi does not manipulate them, the reader's feelings are deeper and more lasting | Levi | neutral | 0 |
This is a very detailed, but also very readable history of Al Capone | Al Capone | positive | 0 |
Don't get me wrong, the book had storyline like no other, it's characters ( or bad guys ) were discribed in a way you just couldn't miss em and | storyline | positive | 0 |
The world Marshall commits his novel to keeps the reader's attention by slowly unveiling possibilities that seem extra planar, or supernatural | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
Also it's cool that a tiny key can turn a yiny atlas into a gigantic one | atlas | neutral | 0 |
If you are looking for a thrilling fantasy book, I recommend that you read the series of books The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix | thrilling fantasy book | positive | 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 | characters | positive | 0 |
This is a magical story, equally suitable for either boys or girls | boys or girls | positive | 0 |
Old legends are given new life (such as the tale of the Pied Piper and the Greek myth of Prometheus) and concepts and symbols given real form: such as the days of the week in human form, and their angelic-looking (but quite devilish) Dawn, Noon and Dusks | Dawn | negative | 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 | Arthur | positive | 0 |
The Will gives him instructions on how to get the Greater Key (shaped like the hour hand on a clock) from Mister Monday and become Master of the Lower House | The Will | 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 |
The writing also starts to improve with this book and the secondary protagonists, two female, European police officers who develop a long-term relationship with each other, are the best of any of the books | writing | positive | 0 |
This book has loads of detail and is not that short | short | 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 | McDermid | 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)! | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
His characters are believable and descriptions vivid | descriptions | positive | 0 |
Arthur is safe | Arthur | positive | 0 |
Arthur uses the key to enter into a mysterious house (that only he can see) in hopes of finding a cure | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
This book is an example of kids with problems and their friends problems all in one book | friends problems | neutral | 0 |
I bought Mister Monday for a special price of $2 | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
a great dark read for dark fantasy people | fantasy people | positive | 0 |
Another scene is when Arthur is being chased by creatures called Nithlings, he is saved by a friend and it explains really well how Arthur quickly climbed a rope and threw tiles at the creatures | Arthur | neutral | 1 |
THe last Poirot case was a heartbreaking affair | heartbreaking affair | neutral | 0 |
In any case, I wasn't expecting much but I was overwhelmed by the complexity yet clearness of Garth Nix's writing | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
Nuts and seeds - acorn, grass seed, jojoba, etc | Nuts | neutral | 0 |
This book is about two sisters, Angela & Diabola | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
There is no doubt that the book is geared to women of the upper middle class, highly educated and consumers of various media depicting roles for women | women of the upper middle class | positive | 0 |
We may not be angelic like Angela or demonic like Diabola | Diabola | negative | 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 | book | positive | 0 |
This book is his first published (1996) | 1996 | neutral | 0 |
I like this book because it has action, suspense and a little bit of drama | book | positive | 0 |
I liked the glowing clock hands and the fog with the creepy things standing in it | fog | positive | 0 |
In the letter he urges Hasting to come to the hotel where they once met for the first time the Styles, because there is to be a murder | Hasting | neutral | 0 |
I also liked this book because it is funny and it's not too long | book | positive | 0 |
Monday and he is being pushed about by his butler, Sneezer | Monday | neutral | 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 | Carol Jordan | neutral | 0 |
The main gender that would want to read this book would be girls because of what the story is based on and because they can relate to it the best | girls | 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 | hand of a clock | neutral | 0 |
In the first hundred pages, Al Capone's name is literally mentioned only about five times | Al Capone | neutral | 0 |
I loved this book so much | book | positive | 0 |