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I was disappointed enough in the book to move along to another author, as opposed to reading the rest of the Carol Jordan/Tony Hill saga | book | negative | 0 |
When he returns home after another stay in the hospital, Arthur finds that the Key seems to be attracting unwanted attention -- a statue of a Komodo dragon comes alive, and a winged man-dog tries to come into his house | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Carol is offered the bone of a possible promotion if she would agree to an undercover assignment | Carol | neutral | 0 |
There is also a concurrent subplot, quite connected to the larger plot, involving a 9 year old girl who also goes missing but finds herself doing and thinking things far beyond her young capabilities, much to her confusion | concurrent subplot | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is a phenomenal book that gets an excellent 10/10 | book | positive | 0 |
This book had a good story plot | story plot | positive | 0 |
The main characters in My Darling My Hamburger are two girls named Liz and Maggie | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
He is now on the trail of a criminal who targets psychologists and murders them in a particularly gruesome manner | criminal | neutral | 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 | fechters | neutral | 0 |
The thing I didn't like about this book is that Arthur didn't not seem like his age | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
This novel is one that cannot go undread by young men and women alike | women | neutral | 0 |
Grown ups and kids will be hooked from the get go | kids | positive | 0 |
From there, the topics of sex and abuse, divorce and value are thoroughly portrayed | value | neutral | 0 |
THE INTRUDERS affirm Michael Marshall's winning of the Philip K | Michael Marshall | neutral | 0 |
The main characters are two twin girls, Angela and Diabola | Angela | neutral | 0 |
"Mister Monday" is another great book from Garth Nix, combining darkness and fantasy and leaving the ending open for the second book of the series | fantasy | positive | 0 |
The story is very interesting and will keep you riveted | story | positive | 0 |
The plot and atmosphere are indeed grim, which is indeed what bothered me | atmosphere | negative | 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 |
Most of the book explores the tricks and turns by which psychoanalysis maintained its authority | turns | neutral | 0 |
His job is to outsmart the killer and prevent any more brutal "mutilation" deaths | killer | negative | 0 |
Dog-faced men, the Will, the Nightsweeper, and thousands more | the Will | 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 | dysfunctional relationship | negative | 0 |
Unfortunately, I was a little surprised, and very disappointed in the way the author chose to "reveal" the main undercover operation to the criminal | author | negative | 0 |
Like when Arthur first got to the House, as everyone called the world he went to, the author quickly described where he appeared but I could vividly see it in my head | author | positive | 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 | Trustees | negative | 0 |
I read this book in high school and loved it | book | positive | 0 |
Mister Monday is about a young boy named Arthur Penhaligon who must save his world from a plague but must go through the biggest dangers that he must overcome in another realm | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Freud's concepts are untestable (the experience - transfer - between analysand and analyst is unique) and nebulous (reality can always be made conform to the system) | Freud's concepts | negative | 0 |
The Intruders is a tale that will appeal to readers who want an engrossing thriller with other-worldly tones | The Intruders | neutral | 0 |
The intricate world of the House was highly entertaing and origional and Nix stuns me every time he writes a new story | House | neutral | 0 |
The main character Arthur has just moved to a new school (typical of children's books) and is plagued with asthma | asthma | neutral | 0 |
But then again Zindel is so far above other writers that I would certainly still recommend reading the novel | Zindel | positive | 0 |
The fast and intense plot makes the book absolutely captivating, as Arthur finds out just how deep his adventure goes | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
One of those problems is dating and sex | sex | neutral | 0 |
As opposed to many writers in the serial-killer/police procedural genre, Val McDermid consistently paints vivid, if disturbing, psychological portraits of the diseased mind responsible for the crimes committed in her novels | police procedural | neutral | 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 | cure | positive | 0 |
She has a simple explanation for everything, but Jack's cop instincts tell him all is not what it seems | Jack | 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 | will | neutral | 0 |
McDermid is the author of several series including one with serial killer profiler, Tony Hill and DCI Carol Jordan first introduced in the superb THE MERMAIDS SINGING | McDermid | 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 | Capone | neutral | 0 |
While Garth Nix's fictional characters often have magical powers he, too, has a power - the power to create fantasy tales that have earned him a host of young fans | Garth Nix | 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) | Leaf | neutral | 0 |
The children's novel "keys of the Kingdom Mister Monday" is a hardcore mix beetween mystery and science fiction | children | neutral | 0 |
Book: My Darling My Hamburger Author: Paul Zindel Number of Pages: 122 Publisher and Publication Date: 1969 Harper and Row publishers ISBN: 0-553-27324-8 Price (if available) and whether it is paperback or hardback: Hardback Imagine if you had parents that never trusted, or that never would believe you | My Darling My Hamburger | neutral | 0 |
Her dialogue is crisp and her descriptive writing is vivid yet understated | writing | positive | 0 |
The slow mating dance between Hill and Jordan gets a lot of buildup and little payoff | Hill | neutral | 0 |
I didn't like it AS much as some of the other books from Marshall (loved Spares, Only Forward and One Of Us), but still a darn good read | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
In this case, there is a serial killer on the loose across Europe who seems to be targeting psychologists by replicating atrocities performed during the reign of the Nazi's in Germany | serial killer | neutral | 0 |
I thought that this book was amazing, had great detail, and was imaginative in every way | book | positive | 0 |
Though I enjoyed fantasy theme, I do think that Nix went slightly overboard | Nix | negative | 0 |
This book is about two sisters, Angela & Diabola | sisters | neutral | 0 |
When a journey beckons he steps behind someone else - all well played out themes for Nix newest hero | Nix | neutral | 0 |
I am 13 and I still enjoy it | 13 | positive | 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 |
Dobbs seriously wants to tell us about Neville Chamberlain's politics of appeasement, a policy that ended with his downfall as Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain | neutral | 0 |
Tony Hill( pyschologist) are in vestingating the murders of prostitutes who are tortured and killed | murders of prostitutes | neutral | 0 |
Already a huge fan of Garth Nix, via Sabriel & co | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
Arthur is desperate and so ventures into "The House" where the answers seems to lie | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
first he must reclaim the lower house from mister monday and survive his minions | house | 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 | Jack | neutral | 0 |
as we all know twin sisters are very different and many people think they are somewhat the same,some do share same characteristics but these two where totaly different, | twin sisters | 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 | Will | neutral | 0 |
I did not enjoy this book very much at all | book | negative | 0 |
Bottom line: perhaps Colin Bateman's best book | Colin Bateman | neutral | 0 |
Arthur's immediately visited by the sleepy Mister Monday and his butler Sneezer, and is given a key in the shape of a clock hand | clock hand | neutral | 0 |
The arc of the stories is huge, but strongly anchored in the characters and Nix's attention to details | stories | positive | 0 |
The plot and atmosphere are indeed grim, which is indeed what bothered me | plot | negative | 0 |
It expresses many problems that teens face today like dating, sex, teenage pregnancy, and many others | teens | neutral | 0 |
Some of the subplots seemed unnecessary, and should have been severely cropped by a ruthless editor: the love affair between the crippled WWI survivor "Mac" McFadden, barber to the politically great and one of Guy's information sources, and Carol, a housemaid and part-time prostitute; and between Bournemouth postmistress Sue Graham and Army Sergeant Jerry White - though the experiences of the latter did usefully tie the Norway debacle into the storyline on a personal level | subplots | negative | 0 |
Once inside the house, he finds obstacles, a friend to help him, and a fragment of the Will which states how everything should be run in the house and the Secondary Realms, in which his house is | Secondary Realms | neutral | 0 |
For the cour you are with him as he becomes a machination of the Reich, and as he reclaims his humanity in the last chapter | Reich | 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) | Lord Halifax | neutral | 0 |
Also when Arthur was in the house he had many battles and such, and also the last fight | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
The twist at the ending was thought out well | ending | positive | 0 |
With her hands full with two little kittens, Mog is unable to leave her cat box (with the kittens) to sleep with Nicky | kittens | neutral | 0 |
Overall, despite the quirky environment and characters, the story felt predictable and a bit templated in its structure | story | negative | 0 |
Noon with his big flame sword and Arthur with his clock sword | Arthur | 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 | McDermid | neutral | 0 |
But once I got into the beginning and reading about Arthur, the hesitant hero, the book grew on me | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
I already recommened this book to a colleague who is several years younger and would recommend it to all young women and men | men | positive | 0 |
Garth Nix has become my new favorite writer, and my discovery started with Mister Monday, the first in the Keys to the Kingdom series | Mister Monday | 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 | Suzy Turquoise Blue | neutral | 0 |
The Last Temptation -- 3 stars | The Last Temptation | neutral | 0 |
Meanwhile, relegated to the periphery of British politics and virtually an outcast, Churchill obstinately lashes out against appeasement and loudly proclaims the necessity for total war to save democracy from the depredations of the Nazis | Nazis | neutral | 0 |
It is captivating from beginning to end with an extraordinary imaginative quality that is his trademark | quality | positive | 0 |
These books are labeled, "Children Fantasy", but contains many references to myths and ideas that I believe are beyond a normal 9 year's old pool of knowledge | myths | neutral | 0 |
What then would happen if everyone learned the central lesson of Gellner's book -- that deception, dishonesty, and manipulation are at the heart not only of the psychoanalytic movement but of nearly all forms of social authority? | dishonesty | negative | 0 |
The main characters in My Darling My Hamburger are two girls named Liz and Maggie | Liz | neutral | 0 |
A comprehensive bridal industry has emerged that emphasizes the perfect, elaborate wedding as being the foremost aspect of a marriage, shoving long-term, wifely realities to the background - the escapist wedding of Princess Diana being the epitome of that notion | bridal industry | neutral | 0 |
Without any sense of trying to make the experience any more horrifying than it was Primo Levi describes the day to day existence with clarity | Primo Levi | positive | 0 |
The killers identity will take you by surprise | killers | positive | 0 |
His wife, Amy, goes to Seattle for a business meeting but never checks into the hotel | Amy | neutral | 0 |
The character development is very good for the supporting characters like Suzy Blue and the Will, but not so good for Arthur himself | character development | positive | 0 |
Where his "Seventh Tower" book was written for younger readers, and "Abhorsen" trilogy for teenagers (though many adults got in on the act), "The Keys to the Kingdom" are situated smack dab in the centre of these two age groups - though again, I hope this doesn't prevent people of any age group from reading them | The Keys to the Kingdom | neutral | 0 |
When a disease breaks out, he finds that it is spread by the Fetchers | disease | neutral | 0 |
Val McDermid's latest novel, "The Last Temptation," is an ambitious undertaking | The Last Temptation | neutral | 0 |
Underneath the veneer of success Liz and Sean have problems with their parents and each other | Liz | negative | 0 |
Angela and Diabola is one of my all-time favorite books | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
I devoured and enjoyed every bit of this book | book | positive | 0 |