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By a dispassionate and careful treatment of the very difficult material, he manages to write a compelling book about a terrible subject | terrible subject | negative | 0 |
Nix delights in playing with words and concepts, and the phases "got a frog in your throat" and "having a silver tongue" take on whole new meaning here, and things such as books, paper, the written word and language are given a solid, tangible quality here that is thought-provoking and completely original | Nix | neutral | 0 |
Capone was sentenced to eleven years, but served less than six due to good behavior and the terminal phase of syphilis | Capone | neutral | 0 |
The story is very interesting and will keep you riveted | story | positive | 0 |
Weird dog faced creatures from the Secondary Realms called Fetchers who were sent to retrieve the key by Mister Monday | Fetchers | neutral | 0 |
Recommended for all people young and old who love adventure stories | adventure stories | positive | 0 |
Though I enjoyed fantasy theme, I do think that Nix went slightly overboard | fantasy theme | positive | 0 |
then there was a guy named Noon came in the library and looked for Arthur then Arthur ran for it and started throwing salt, but some of the dogs got him on his chest,leg, and arm | Noon | neutral | 0 |
Throughout, Arthur is a sympathetic, understandable protagonist, who reacts to his adventures in a way that you'd expect a young boy to do, but with extraordinary resilience and courage, as does his young sidekick Suzy Turquoise Blue | Suzy Turquoise Blue | positive | 0 |
Here is the ultimate biography of the most brutal, flamboyant gangster of all time-Al Capone | gangster | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday follows the story of Arthur Penhaligon who, during an asthma attack, is entrusted with a magical key by the mysterious Mister Monday | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
If you have any affection for Tony Hill and Carol Jordan as created by Val McDermid, don't read this book | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
My favorite secton or scene was when mister monday & Sneezer first appeared | mister monday | neutral | 0 |
The idea at its core is ancient and well trod ground; but here, miraculously, Michael Marshall has brought forth new life upon it | Michael Marshall | neutral | 0 |
Maggie goes out with Dennis who looks like an "undernourished zucchini | Dennis | neutral | 0 |
If you only have time to read one chapter, read chapter 2 "Heart of Whiteness" about the wedding industry | wedding industry | neutral | 0 |
It allows us to discuss good-vs-evil, and to hear a hilariously funny book | good-vs-evil | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola is about two sisters, one very angelic, and one very, very diabolic | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Capone was very aggressive in furthering his interests even if the price was murder | Capone | negative | 0 |
With them they bring the sleepy plague that begins to overtake Arthur's homeland | sleepy plague | neutral | 0 |
With this comparison in mind, it seems odd that the government finally crumbled the Capone empire with charges of tax evasion | Capone | neutral | 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 |
A retired heart surgeon, Ben Givens is an old hand at turning isolation to his advantage, both professionally and personally: "When everything human was erased from existence except that narrow antiseptic window through which another's heart could be manipulated--few were as adroit as Dr | Ben Givens | neutral | 0 |
I have to say, I haven't read anything yet by Garth Nix that I didn't enjoy, but Mister Monday is by far my favorite | Garth Nix | 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 | key | neutral | 0 |
Skylar, on the other hand, is a breath of fresh air (sorry for the cliche) | Skylar | neutral | 0 |
Kingston covers all the bases, beginning with the world's fascination with Princess Diana's foray into wifedom | Kingston | neutral | 0 |
Arthur's only hope, if he is to survive and stop the plague in his own world, is to obtain the rest of the Key from Mister Monday and accept his status as Heir, however little he wants it | Key | neutral | 0 |
Running parallel to this is a creepy serial killer who Tony Hill tries to find and unmask | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
But when they leave someone name mister Monday comes, and gives Arthur the key | mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Gasping for breath, two strange men visit him and give him a book and a key | book | neutral | 0 |
The arc of the stories is huge, but strongly anchored in the characters and Nix's attention to details | stories | positive | 0 |
com rates its readership the same as for Mister Monday--ages 9-12, which would be about right | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Cuthburtson-Joneses (the mother) having some sort of unrealized power that never was explored or expanded | Cuthburtson-Joneses | neutral | 0 |
Actually the most vivid memory I have of the story is when Liz calls home to say she'll be late, her stepfather calls her a tramp, and that's when she succumbs to Sean's pressure to have sex | Sean | 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 | Petra | positive | 0 |
But with this key comes strange creatures from another dimension who pursue the key, and though he doesn't know why, Aurther knows that he shouldn't give it to them{they work for Mister Monday- who wants the key back} | key | neutral | 1 |
The main characters in My Darling My Hamburger are two girls named Liz and Maggie | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
But when Angela is around Diabla can't do any harm to anyone | Angela | neutral | 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 |
Carol and Tony are also investigating the murder and rape of children | Tony | neutral | 0 |
Later that week a plague hits the town, Arthur has to unravel the mysteries of the key to save his family and friends | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Capone and before that Torrio become the main influences in the Chicago underworld | Torrio | neutral | 0 |
It was a chance Capone was to take | Capone | neutral | 0 |
So once again, I don't think that the views expressed in this book are invalid by any means, but they offer little in the way of concrete argument | views | positive | 0 |
Maggie and Liz are friends | Liz | 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 | Phony War | neutral | 0 |
During this attack, A strangfe man named Mister Monday comes, and is tricked into giving Aurther a minute hand shaped "key"- which is what they called it | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
The main characters are two twin girls, Angela and Diabola | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon (and that just has to be a reference to the Arthurian legend) is just an average kid with bad asthma, until he has an attack that nearly kills him and suddenly finds himself a big player in a world that exists outside reality as he knows it | Arthur Penhaligon | 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 | Sleepy Plague | neutral | 0 |
Hill's murder investigation eventually brings him to Berlin | murder investigation | neutral | 0 |
creatures who bring a plague scientist simply can't find a cure for | plague | 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 | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
For some reason I think Angela needed badness more then Diabola needed goodness | Diabola | positive | 0 |
This is the ultimate crime and the ultimate murderer | murderer | positive | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon was an asthmatic child who wasn't enjoying his first Monday at his new school | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
The author states many 'facts' and points that seemed to backed up very little other than personal views or opinion (or at least they aren't explained throroughly enough for me to undertstand | author | 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 | Arthur | 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 | suzy | neutral | 0 |
We see the return of criminal psychologist Tony Hill and Carol Jordan a police officer who has just applied for a job with Europol, working behind a desk processing information | police officer | neutral | 0 |
class see the creatures too, so Arthur apprehensively goes on his journey as the reluctant hero who is bound to find a way to save his community and family | Arthur | neutral | 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 | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
But when Angela is around Diabla can't do any harm to anyone | Diabla | neutral | 0 |
I recommend that anyone looking to have some mischievous fun at chess should take up the the Budapest as an occasional surprise weapon | the Budapest | neutral | 0 |
There are a couple of add-on chapters that seem a bit out of place, concerning flora and fauna | flora | negative | 0 |
It's a shame cause I think the author has created in this story a work that could have become a classic epic within the genre | author | negative | 0 |
Bottom line: perhaps Colin Bateman's best book | Colin Bateman | neutral | 0 |
Exploding onto the Childrens' Literature scene is Garth Nix and his Keys to the Kingdom series | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
It all started when Arthur Penholgon was given a key and a atlas from | key | neutral | 0 |
Here's a thriller that really thrills | thriller | 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 | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
We may not be angelic like Angela or demonic like Diabola | Diabola | negative | 0 |
'Tadzio' has more chemistry with Carol | Carol | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix has done it again, he has again come up with a new and creative plot in a magical world even more real than that of his Old Kingdom | plot | positive | 0 |
During this attack, A strange man named Mister Monday comes, and is tricked into giving Aurther a minute hand shaped "key"- which is what they called it | Aurther | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon, only 13, survives what is supposed to be his death on his first day at a new school when he is handed a key shaped like the minute hand on a clock by the elusive Mister Monday | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
Good Bead paterns alot of pictures of beadwork from 1800's (5 stars) for the detailed information in this book! | beadwork | positive | 0 |
When a disease breaks out, he finds that it is spread by the Fetchers | disease | neutral | 0 |
Using the old theme of parallel universes and kingdoms he transformed a normal 13 year old boy into a hero that holds the primary key to the universe | 13 year old boy | 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 | Key | neutral | 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 |
He was about to die when he was handed a minute shaped key from Mister Monday | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Problem is he's in the seventh grade and doesn't want to rule the world, all he wants to do is save his family and friends from a plague let lose by the same forces who don't want him to succeed, principally Mr | plague | neutral | 0 |
Arthur is suspended between many betrayals, and has many things like "Trust the Will" and then "Don't trust the Will" told to him, and is constantly hunted by the lazy mister monday and his Noon (Right hand man), Dawn (Left hand woman) and constantly helped by Mondays Dusk, the final of the trio of the day (You may have guessed Mister Monday can only come to earth on monday, his dawn can only come from 12:01 AM-1:00 AM, Noon can only come from 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, and finaly dusk can come from 11:00 PM-12:00 AM) | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
With only the lesser part of the first key to aid him, Arthur is always fighting against the odds | first key | neutral | 0 |
I picked this book up in Bangkok as I was browsing through a second hand book store, and didn't expect much until I read that this was a novel by the guy who wrote House of Cards, To Play the King and The Final Cut | novel | neutral | 0 |
With Mister Monday defeated, Arthur is able to go back home and cure the Fetcher plague | Arthur | 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 | "Mac" McFadden | 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 | classic tale | neutral | 0 |
Arthur seeks safety within the walls of a house that only he can see | house | neutral | 0 |
Then after he went back to his word the illness stoped and everything went back to normal except it was on a TUESDAY | illness | negative | 0 |
Arthur is slated to die an early death but his life is saved by a key shaped like a clock's hand � a key which brings with it the power not only to reverse predictions, but to introduce bizarre creates into the world | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Part of the "Paladin Movements and Ideas" series, this book is an exploration of the latter half of the 19th century, explaining where Sigmund Freud came from and why he happened when he did | Sigmund Freud | neutral | 0 |
He comes to own a small key that’s shaped like the minute hand of a clock | key | neutral | 0 |
Liz is the more beautiful and popular of the two with Maggie often following behind | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
Even though the book was written in the late 60's, some underlying themes stay the same: pregnancy, abortion, not getting along or being able to communicate with parents, suicide, and premarital sex | abortion | neutral | 0 |
The climactic scenes involving the capture of one villain and the death of another are without any sense of thrill or danger | villain | 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 |
With the help of the key, he travelsinside the house and is swallowed into an adventure he'll never forget | house | neutral | 0 |