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As a longtime fan of McDonalds work, I must confess that his Son of Fletch work of the last few years hasn't grabbed me | McDonalds | positive | 0 |
Whilst his classmates run for help, the strangest thing happens: a young man and his butler appear from nowhere, and bequeath to Arthur something that they call a "Key" (though to Arthur it looks more like a large minute hand from a clock), and a strange book called `The Compleat Atlas of the House and Immediate Environs' | The Compleat Atlas of the House and Immediate Environs | neutral | 0 |
I am sure Paul Zindel means well, but his outlook on human life is simplistic at best and cynical at worst | human life | negative | 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 | Mister Monday | negative | 0 |
Monday sends his fetchers to retrieve the key but Arthur doesn't let them | Monday | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix creates a vast array of imaginative creatures with incredible talents | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
A higher power sneaks through the inspector a small line of text, later proving to be more then enough help to free the first several paragraphs of the Will | the Will | 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 | magic | 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 | Zindel | positive | 0 |
McDonald has found new energy in Skylar | Skylar | neutral | 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 | Kingston | neutral | 0 |
I recommend this for fans of fantasy, or other books by Garth Nix | fans of fantasy | positive | 0 |
As mentioned above, this covers the events leading up to World War 2 | World War 2 | neutral | 0 |
I loved this book! I read the whole thing in less than a week (which is really good time because of my hectic college schedual) | book | positive | 0 |
Capone was very aggressive in furthering his interests even if the price was murder | Capone | negative | 0 |
When Liz and her boyfriend Sean decide to hook up Maggie with his friend Dennis, the blind date is as incredibly awkward as they come | blind date | negative | 0 |
They provided relief from Liz's ridiculousness | Liz | negative | 0 |
But, overall, Mister Monday is a page turner that's so creative and captivating, its shortcomings are largely made up for | page turner | positive | 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 least Key to the Kingdom | The Will | neutral | 0 |
A well written novel by Lynn Reid Banks weaves good and evil into a touching and unforgetable novel | novel | positive | 1 |
Lewis was also a broadcaster and prolific writer of literary criticism, science fiction, letters and religious themes, and his books continue to sell in their thousands, attracting generation after generation of new admirers | Lewis | positive | 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 |
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 | magical world | positive | 0 |
As Gellner sums up in his final chapter, "In a sense, the present book is more interested in our Zeitgeist than in psychoanalysis | Gellner | neutral | 0 |
When he goes the house and touches the key to the wall a black door appears he walks in it and goes to another world | key | neutral | 0 |
The idea is interesting, if not for younger minds | idea | positive | 0 |
The book is a social commentary and observation about how wifedom has (and has not) changed over the years | wifedom | neutral | 0 |
An very cute book for the young child | book | positive | 0 |
The book is a great read right until the end, so rare in non-fiction | book | positive | 0 |
Cuberson-Jones!One as an angel called "Angela" and another as a devil called "Diabola" | Cuberson-Jones | neutral | 0 |
Tony Hill is also in Europe, helping the police solve a series of murders in which psychologists are the victims | murders | neutral | 0 |
Arthur is whisked away into another world, where he must face the ultimate challenge: to defeat Mr | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Just to give you the basic story outline, there are twins born and one is angelic, the other like a little devil | twins | neutral | 0 |
It might be an entertaining point of discussion with a child 12 or older, but it's too dark for younger ones, unless you're ready to talk about true evil, adult motivations, supernatural forces, and fratricide! | child 12 | positive | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
They are of course best friends | friends | positive | 0 |
And these charaters drift in and out of this long dizzy story of what the future will be like in the 22nd Century while changing in spirit, age, and mindset | charaters | neutral | 0 |
Once he went in the house he went to Mondays portal and ended up in this weird land | house | neutral | 0 |
In order to fight the plague, Arthur decides to enter the House (which only he can see) to find a cure | plague | neutral | 0 |
Do you take a tent to the jungle? Does sand really get everywhere? And how do you even survive in the Arctic? This light-hearted but informative guide offers all the information needed for taking visits to the world’s most remote and inhospitable locations | inhospitable locations | 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 | the Will | neutral | 1 |
From the award-winning author of "Snow Falling on Cedars" comes the bold and beautiful story of a retired heart surgeon with cancer who heads toward the wooded territory of eastern Washington intending to commit suicide | author | positive | 0 |
He has a feeling that the answer to curing the sick people is to go in there | people | negative | 0 |
The main reoccurring theme is "from nothing we came, and to nothing we return" a bit unsettling for the typical child | theme | neutral | 0 |
The book relates, with common sense and humor, instructions given early Americans on proper table manners, conversation and correspondence, dress, behavior in the drawing room and in public places, and it includes a special, more intimate section - "For Womankind" | dress | positive | 0 |
He also focuses in on the specific structural features of modern life that made psychoanalysis an especially successful ideology | psychoanalysis | neutral | 0 |
The whole book feels a bit contrived | book | 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 | Keys to the Kingdom | neutral | 0 |
Then Diabola draws a horrid picture, and the principal thinks Diabola is a genius | Diabola | positive | 1 |
This book explores the manner in which European - well British anyway - people became familiar with India from the 1700s on | India | neutral | 0 |
Monday gives Arthur the minute hand to the "Key to the Kingdom" that he posesses | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
If books on criminal profiling and psychological forensics are your thing, you'll probably really enjoy McDermid's work | criminal profiling | neutral | 0 |
The Last Temptation -- 3 stars | 3 stars | positive | 0 |
The book explores the role of the wife in society from a historical perspective and does a very good job illustrating how tht role has changed over time | book | positive | 0 |
The Keys to the Kingdom is an excellent new series by Garth Nix - a series I cannot wait for the sequel too! To get the concept of the book, you kind of have to read it, really | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
While Nix creates some unique characters and a fairly interesting hierarchy within the House, it falls flat on its face because the characters are underutilized and not given enough time and attention to mature | characters | negative | 1 |
Hill | Hill | neutral | 0 |
John Kobler is a little-known master craftsman and this is his master work | work | positive | 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 | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
My darling,My hamburger is a good book if it didn't live you hang at the end what hope to whom and did they go to collage or not | My darling,My hamburger | positive | 0 |
An action they both will soon regret as Arthur finds the key they have given him leads to an otherworldly house that is both the source of a plague in his town and the only place he can find a cure | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Kingston's book begins with a description of Prince Charles' and Princess Di's wedding and sort of stays there | Kingston | 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 | Tadeusz | neutral | 0 |
Written for young adults this is a book that can be enjoyed by anyone who loves a good fantasy story | fantasy | positive | 0 |
Liz and Sean are very into each other, but Sean keeps pushing the issue with whether or not they are going to "do it | Sean | neutral | 0 |
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 | twins | neutral | 0 |
He's created a multi-layered thriller involving a likeable protagonist plus a host of remarkable satellite characters who make you cringe & groan with curiosity & anticipation | satellite characters | positive | 0 |
this series takes a break from the usual fantasy and delivers more dark and sinister book | book | negative | 0 |
This included blackmail, torture, and murder | torture | neutral | 0 |
The characters were also cool and well thought out | characters | positive | 0 |
I could not put this book down if my life depended on it! I have never in my life read a book this fast | book | positive | 0 |
Sealed within a small fragment, the Will of the Architect, she who had created this realm and all that inhabit it, her Will had been sealed away, over time the ecurity had become lax, for Sloth has taken over the Lower Atrium of the House | House | 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 | Mister Monday | positive | 0 |
Hill and Jordan have collaborated professionally in the past | Hill | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is an interesting Fantasy novel that draws readers in from the very beginning | Mister Monday | 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 | Dusk | positive | 0 |
Garth Nix's "Mister Monday" begins a brand new fantasy series in the "Keys to the Kingdom" series | fantasy series | neutral | 0 |
Ernest Gellner stigmatizes Freudianism as a secular religion, where the Unconscious (a new version of the Original Sin) is treated as a Revelation, with a sharp distinction between the sacred (those under analysis) and the profane, between the good (the true believers) and the bad, and where reason must be suspended | Freudianism | neutral | 0 |
It also shows at the end how even though a couple breaks up they can still be friends | friends | positive | 0 |
It is a great book for children, to help them start on a path to learning size relationships | book | positive | 0 |
Do their parents understand or even care about them? Are they ready for sex? Meanwhile can Maggie and Dennis learn to communicate enough to stay together? | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
After spending a couple days in the hospital he finds a notebook in his jacket pocket when he held the key and opened the book he sees a drawing of a house that nobody else can see | notebook | neutral | 0 |
In the meantime, events occurring that appear far removed from Jack's world will jeopardize his very existence | Jack | neutral | 0 |
I would have preferred more emphasis on Tony Hill's aspect of the book, but we don't always get what we want, and this book certainly displays Carol Jordan's full abilites | Carol Jordan | positive | 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 | political maneuvering | neutral | 0 |
After reading the first chapter of this book, I knew that I wouldn't be disappointed as it just sucks you in | chapter | positive | 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 | Key | neutral | 0 |
The key makes it possible for Arthur to live through a brutal asthma attack on the first day at this new school | key | neutral | 0 |
Norton, Judith the captain's daughter, Boyd Carrington and Miss Cole | Boyd Carrington | neutral | 0 |
This newest offering, "Last Temptation", is a very good tale, but is definitely not for those readers who prefer to avoid the grisly details of murders, in this case those of a serial killer | Last Temptation | neutral | 0 |
But it doesn't work as Mister Monday intended, for with the key in his hand Arthur can breathe as though he has never had asthma | asthma | neutral | 0 |
I thought the writing skills of the author were good, but the storytelling skills were not | author | neutral | 0 |
it was a good adventure | adventure | positive | 0 |
As Jack grows suspicious of Amy, he grows closer and closer to Gary (who in the conventional thriller would have been a woman I think), and their eventual friendship and bonding has a distinct homoerotic charge to it as they both learn that women (and little girls) can't be trusted | thriller | positive | 0 |
The psychoanalytic movement went on to become one of the major movements in the 20th century | psychoanalytic movement | positive | 0 |
It was a great book and its based in a place near where I live | book | positive | 0 |
He also focuses in on the specific structural features of modern life that made psychoanalysis an especially successful ideology | successful ideology | positive | 0 |
Monday is interesting enough but to really enjoy you have to continue the series | Monday | neutral | 0 |
This is dark fantasy at its best | dark fantasy | positive | 0 |
The book suffers little from the amount of ideas and concepts that Nix crams between its covers, which can seem either random or confusing to a first-time reader | book | negative | 0 |