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After reading nearly 30 novels, Poirot had been a part of life | Poirot | neutral | 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 | Michael Dobbs | neutral | 0 |
Jack is a wonderful beleaguered hero who starts off by quickly realizing he don't know jack even about himself and as he investigates realizes each new clue proves he knows even less than he thought | Jack | positive | 0 |
When he recovers, the "key" and " A Compleat Atlas of The House" are still there | key | neutral | 0 |
In the first hundred pages, Al Capone's name is literally mentioned only about five times | Al Capone | neutral | 0 |
After the Fetchers bring a disease to his planet Arthur starts his adventure in search of the cure for the deadly disease | deadly disease | neutral | 0 |
From there, the topics of sex and abuse, divorce and value are thoroughly portrayed | sex | neutral | 0 |
Monday is kinda of slow compared to the others in the series is because it is setting up the series and characters | Monday | neutral | 0 |
With a lot of 'twinnish', a language which is used by the twins to communicate, Diabola talks to Angela because she does not know how to speak a lot of English | Angela | neutral | 0 |
This is a detailed biography of Alphonse Capone | biography | positive | 0 |
The emotional connection between Hill and the killers in the two previous books is missing here, making the entire killer plot read like an afterthought | killer plot | negative | 0 |
One question I have is what happens after you fall asleep during the process of the "Sleepy Plague" | Sleepy Plague | neutral | 0 |
He comes to own a small key that’s shaped like the minute hand of a clock | key | neutral | 0 |
When Guzzler Gummidge wishes on an old lamp, he becomes invisible | Guzzler Gummidge | 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 | gigantic clock | neutral | 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 | Maggie | 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 |
This vibrantly illustrated and informative guide offers fans up-to-the-minute reporting on the 1995-96 season, superstar and team histories, stats, and more | superstar | 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 | history | neutral | 0 |
"Mr Keay explores literature (such as the Ramayana), the leftovers of earlier civilisation (such as coins), architecture (Buddhist, Hindu and Moslem), and paintings | paintings | neutral | 0 |
Carol is offered the bone of a possible promotion if she would agree to an undercover assignment | assignment | positive | 0 |
When finished, you will be so familiar with these characters, you will wish their was a second book! | characters | positive | 0 |
As a fan of Nix's previous series, the Abhorsen Triology, and The Seventh Tower, as a teen I looked towards his new budding series, shortly after its publication | Nix | neutral | 0 |
If you like contmporary fiction, you might enjoy Angela and Diabla | Angela and Diabla | neutral | 0 |
These creatures, called Fetchers bring a terrible disease called the "Sleepy Pluage", which after afew symtoms like having a cold, puts the infected people to sleep- literally- they fall asleep, and can't be woken up! Aurther is particually sensitive to this outbreak beacuse he is adopted{his birth parents died in a flu outbreak when he was a baby} | Aurther | neutral | 0 |
In the end, I felt the whole story was pointless | story | negative | 0 |
Diabola becomes mad and uses her powers to make their eyes sting | Diabola | negative | 0 |
Kennedy; the alcoholic, disillusioned and psychologically tortured idealist, Guy Burgess (of Burgess, Philby, and Maclean of Cold War infamy); the stuttering King George VI, who whines that the German invasion of Poland interrupted his grouse hunting; and the Machiavellian newspaper mogul, William "Max" Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook | William "Max" Aitken | negative | 0 |
Going through the weird house to reach Mister Monday's dayroom isn't easy, but after many trials and some help from a girl named Suzy, Arthur manages to do so | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Angela comes out very peacefully and doesn't cry afterwards, but Diabola comes out kicking and screaming and almost bites the nurse's finger off | Diabola | negative | 0 |
I also picked up on a religious tone to the book, which I only mention to make you aware that it's in there | religious | negative | 0 |
This book is terrific and I loved it! Could it be this writer is selling more books than her? It''s a thought | writer | positive | 0 |
But when a fight emerges between the two figures - Mister Monday and Sneezer - they both disappear without any further regard to Arthur | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
The assignment concerns getting to know and possibly date a criminal in Germany who imports illegal immigrants from Asia, as well as, drugs | assignment | positive | 0 |
Nicky decides to give the two kittens to the very same (two young girls) friends who were admiring them | Nicky | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix makes every chapter eventful and ends the chapter so that you want to keep reading what happens next | Garth Nix | positive | 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) | novel | neutral | 0 |
The killers identity will take you by surprise | killers | positive | 0 |
I got "class trip" from a library for 10 cents | class trip | neutral | 0 |
In his first two chapters, Gellner focuses in on what might be called the modern predicament | Gellner | neutral | 0 |
The emotional connection between Hill and the killers in the two previous books is missing here, making the entire killer plot read like an afterthought | Hill | neutral | 0 |
I first stumbled across Michael Marshall in one of those gift shops you find in bigger hotels | Michael Marshall | neutral | 0 |
But when Angela is around Diabla can't do any harm to anyone | Diabla | 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 | primary key | neutral | 0 |
The book also discusses wifely history, and of great concern to me these days, what women and men are doing about The Name Problem | The Name Problem | neutral | 0 |
With a lot of 'twinnish', a language which is used by the twins to communicate, Diabola talks to Angela because she does not know how to speak a lot of English | twins | neutral | 0 |
Soon all three scenarios will connect at the heart of Jack's soul | Jack | neutral | 0 |
But when the vicar saw them he named them Angela & Diabola which means angel & devil | vicar | neutral | 0 |
Overall, despite the quirky environment and characters, the story felt predictable and a bit templated in its structure | characters | neutral | 0 |
The entire idea of the House with different levels of work (mostly paperwork) is extremely creative | House | positive | 0 |
during the run he comes to have this thing known as the lesser key, it looks sorta like the minute hand of a clock | lesser key | neutral | 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 | Gary Fisher | neutral | 0 |
Next recipe: cholla buds and squash | squash | neutral | 0 |
So Arthur and Suzy have many encounters and then are captured, and Arthur is thrown into the Coal Cellar of the realms and meets the "Ancient One" who tells him the stories and some of the secrets of the realms inside the house and about the "improbable stair" which only excists if you are able to see it and able to transfer from one realm to another quickly without losing it and being stranded in the realm forever | Suzy | 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 |
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 | murder | 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 |
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