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After Arthur defeats Mister Monday he surrenders his strange powers to "The Will" | strange powers | neutral | 0 |
This is a great book and one that gets you thinking about marriage | marriage | neutral | 0 |
With a believable main chacter, and a cast of funny friends, i enjoyed this book nearly whole heartedly | book | positive | 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 | Paul Zindel | neutral | 0 |
Obviously, Nix wrote this book for a younger audience so his writing wasn't as | Nix | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola is a great book and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a funny novel | novel | positive | 0 |
It was a wonderful book, as was its sequel, Grim Tuesday | book | positive | 0 |
It's the best, most usable book on desert edibles I've ever read or owned | desert edibles | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola's mother and father soon figure out that Angela and Diabola aren't going to balance any time soon | Angela | neutral | 1 |
Monday and he is being pushed about by his butler, Sneezer | Sneezer | neutral | 0 |
My Darling,My Hambuger is a well written novel by Paul Zindel that might illustrtate the life of a teen durign hi high school years | life of a teen | neutral | 0 |
The House is one of the most colourful places you could ever wish to visit, complete with everything from elevators to dinosaurs to coal cellars | The House | positive | 0 |
Cuterston-Jones gives birth to twins with compleatly different personalities | Cuterston-Jones | neutral | 0 |
Jordan has helped bring two serial killers to justice and she has paid her dues as a police officer | serial killers | neutral | 0 |
In any case, I wasn't expecting much but I was overwhelmed by the complexity yet clearness of Garth Nix's writing | writing | positive | 0 |
The story is about a little boy who was saved by one little key | little boy | neutral | 0 |
Arthur's Earth is one set in the future to begin with, which is a bit hard to follow through his reflections on previous events, but it gets even more confusing when he receives on of the Keys and finds the House that is a gateway to another world/time/reality | Keys | neutral | 0 |
The ending is satisfying for the most part, although it would have been nice to have a final scene with Petra and Marijke, since it's not likely McDermid will use them again | Marijke | neutral | 0 |
Marshall tries to weave a sci-fi tale that comes across as an attempt to master a genre he knows little about | Marshall | neutral | 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 leat Key to the Kingdom | Minute Hand key | neutral | 0 |
But I will say that Garth Nix is a very clever, talented writer | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
In total, I found this book to be more than adequate | book | positive | 0 |
This author uses atrocities committed by a group in the 20th century that I generally have tired of reading, as they have become the crutch for any form of evil | 20th century | neutral | 0 |
This book had some mature subject matter that young kids should not read | mature subject matter | neutral | 0 |
Smith keeps on shifting perspectives and deliberately keeps the reader off-balance | Smith | neutral | 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} | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
It would be easy to bluntly horrify the reader in a book about life in a death camp, but Levi is not content to appeal to the emotions | Levi | neutral | 0 |
It would be easy to bluntly horrify the reader in a book about life in a death camp, but Levi is not content to appeal to the emotions | death camp | neutral | 0 |
The Will is going to find a way, and that way is Arthur | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
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 | cancer | neutral | 0 |
The suspense and amazing imagination that Nix uses draws the students in and keeps them hooked from page one | suspense | positive | 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 |
Arthur had to go threw this big adventure but to get to the point he went to fight Monday with his minute and hour hand key that became a GIGANTIC sword that distroyed Monday and helped Will the protector or lord of the keys that guided Arthur all the way | Will | neutral | 0 |
At times, the author goes into great detail demonstrating the work put into this project | author | positive | 0 |
Which of course can NOT happen or we would not have this great series | series | positive | 0 |
Cuthbertson-Jones, their mother, giving birth to the twins | Cuthbertson-Jones | neutral | 0 |
The ending is a depressing let-down | ending | negative | 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 | serial killer | negative | 0 |
Somehow I was just left wanting to hear more about Leaf and Ed ( two classmates, who could have been good friends to Arthur ) | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday is the kind of book that pulls you in after the first page and pulls you to the end | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
One day, he is handed the Key and the Atlas, and the fate of his world falls on his shoulders, as a fatal plague sweeps the area | Atlas | neutral | 0 |
She spends a great deal of time focusing on the upper classes, whether royalty, celebrities, politicians or CEOs | politicians | 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 | Unconscious | neutral | 0 |
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 | Carol Jordan | neutral | 0 |
A car crash en route puts an initial crimp in this suicide mission | car crash | neutral | 0 |
Unfortunately, the author chose to describe Capone's effect on the world in seven pages | Capone | neutral | 0 |
it is the best horror/action/adventure book i haver ever read | horror | neutral | 0 |
Anyway, Agatha Christie wrote one of the best Poirot novels ever | novels | positive | 0 |
I was kind of expecting Leaf to be with Arthur through the book as a sidekick, but I liked Suzy just as well | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Maggie goes out with Dennis who looks like an "undernourished zucchini | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
But no matter what Angela loves Diabola, even when Diabola trys to kill her | Diabola | negative | 1 |
With the help of his new interesting friends, Suzy and the Will, he will face his destiny to become the rightful heir(s) | rightful heir | neutral | 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? | sex | neutral | 0 |
Throughout the book we are a fly on the wall listening to the political machinations of the principle characters in the story which include, Chamberlain, Churchill, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy, Lord Halifax, the traitor Guy Burgess, and many others | Churchill | neutral | 0 |
However, the first part of the Will, which is a living entity, has escaped and engineered the transfer of part of Monday's Key (the minute hand) into the possession of a mortal, Arthur, who is now the Architect's Heir | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Angela is very excited, but Diabola is bored and gloomy | Diabola | negative | 0 |
By the time they get on to the next books, the general formula of where Nix is going is straightened out and most of the things Arthur sees and hears of in this first book are understandable (which should justify a second reading!) Make sure "Grim Tuesday" is on hand to continue Arthur's story | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
There are other great secondary characters as well, Monday's Noon: the bad guy, loyal servant, strong and fierce | secondary characters | positive | 0 |
But then again Zindel is so far above other writers that I would certainly still recommend reading the novel | novel | positive | 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? | Gellner | neutral | 0 |
McDermid relies a bit too much on coincidental/convenient plot developments late in the book; as other reviewers have mentioned, the bad guys find out what Tony and Carol are really up to purely by chance, due to a careless mistake that neither Tony or Carol would otherwise make | McDermid | neutral | 0 |
Capone and before that Torrio become the main influences in the Chicago underworld | Torrio | neutral | 0 |
Instead of telling you the history of India, this book emphasized the history of how the Indian history was discovered by the British, I always love books written by John Keay, though it's more or less written by a British author with a little bit biased view | John Keay | positive | 0 |
Bottom line: perhaps Colin Bateman's best book | book | positive | 0 |
" Arthur has already saved my world from the Sleepy Plague and I'm not particularly taken with the rest of Nix's mixed-up Universe | Sleepy Plague | neutral | 0 |
Not only is The Meaning of Wife jam packed with original research, it also jellies over with meaning! I can't tell you how many times I have pulled this book BACK OFF THE SHELF since placing it there a few weeks ago upon finishing it | research | positive | 0 |
My only comments are "Do we really need the Ed and Leaf characters?" and "Why's the guy in Ancient Greece speaking English?" Ed and Leaf may be useful throughout later books in the series, but the Greek guy seems to have been a boo-boo | Greek guy | negative | 0 |
MISTER MONDAY is the first in a new series by Garth Nix, author of THE SEVENTH TOWER | MISTER MONDAY | neutral | 0 |
The positive jacket blurb from Stephen King convinced me to read this book, but I wish I'd picked something else | book | neutral | 0 |
Meanwhile, in the ordinary world, Arthur Penhaligon is coping with the pressures of the first day at a new school | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 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 | minute hand of a clock | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix's 'Mister Monday' was a highly clever, creative, and entertaining read that had me up into the wee hours of the morning following Arthur's adventures in the House | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Anyone who likes Harry Potter would like this book because it is about fighting and neutralizing evil people | evil people | neutral | 0 |
In this last look at Hercule Poirot we see him and his friend Hastings at Styles where we were first introduced to this incredible Belgian | Hastings | neutral | 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 | Noon | negative | 0 |
Though this series is different from Garth Nix's preivous two series, it's still stays up to my espectations of being mysteroius and strange | Garth Nix | 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 |
The book is about as confusing and boring as it sounds | book | negative | 0 |
Mister Monday is one of the best books I have read in a long time | Mister Monday | positive | 0 |
I enjoyed this book, but I think it was a bit confusing to follow | book | positive | 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 | wedding | neutral | 0 |
The author explains the "Wedding Industrial Complex" that drives the image of the "perfect" wedding at the expense of all sensibilities | author | neutral | 0 |
Personal I loved My Darling My Hamburger | My Darling My Hamburger | neutral | 0 |
A villain, his messenger with blood stained wings, and an army of dog faced creatures will do anything to get the key back, even if it means destroying Arthur and everything that surrounds him | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
A giant House has appeared on the block that only Arthur can see, and ugly dog-faced men in bowler hats are coming after him | giant House | neutral | 0 |
But the sheer imagination Nix brings to this book more than makes up for it | Nix | positive | 0 |
The whole series is very fasinating and creative | series | positive | 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 | the Will | neutral | 0 |
In desperation, Arthur ventures into a mysterious house--a house only he can see | mysterious house | neutral | 0 |
We may not be angelic like Angela or demonic like Diabola | Angela | positive | 0 |
It says that he is the rightfull heir to the kingdom{the House} but all Aurther wants is a cure to the Sleepy Plauge | House | neutral | 0 |
Ilove the book | book | positive | 0 |
I don't really care for McDermid's other running characters, but I love the dynamics between Tony Hill and Carol Jordan | McDermid | neutral | 0 |
Monday and he is being pushed about by his butler, Sneezer | Monday | neutral | 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 | Architect | 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 |
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 | black door | neutral | 0 |
How you know you don't like it is if you don't like exciting, funny and adventurous books | books | positive | 0 |
The ending is satisfying for the most part, although it would have been nice to have a final scene with Petra and Marijke, since it's not likely McDermid will use them again | Petra | neutral | 0 |
Capone was not a member of the Mafia group, but he knew their main leaders | Capone | neutral | 0 |