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The story starts off on a Monday and it is Arthur Penhaligon's first day of school | Arthur Penhaligon | 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 |
what seems to be a bath tub-wheeled chair, and a sickly looking butler from the old movies, his uniform long overdue for patchwork and replacement of gloves, and such things, he inherits a blade-like key, and the Compleat Atlas of the House | blade-like key | neutral | 0 |
McDermid, however, really gets into the heads of her twisted antagonists and she seems to have done a tremendous amount of research | twisted antagonists | neutral | 0 |
Arthur sets off into the house to find a way to save his world | house | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola is about two sisters, one very angelic, and one very, very diabolic | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
The ancient Harappan civilisation - so developed and yet so static - the Hindu culture and the Buddha who grew within it (but where have the Indian Buddhist gone today - how were they driven away or why did the philosophy become unfashionable), the Jains - a sect of the Buddhists? And then there are the aboriginal peoples of India, the Moslem invasions, and, of course, the British | aboriginal peoples of India | neutral | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
I reccommend this book for anyone, and everyone!!! | everyone | positive | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
She points out interesting trends, such as the fact that many high-powered women, such as Oprah, choose not to marry today | trends | positive | 0 |
Grim Monday's Noon is a wonderfully likable villian and his master, Mister Monday (after whom this first book is named)is a slothfully entertaining fellow, with his victorian clothing & die-away-airs | Mister Monday | negative | 0 |
In this fantastic story of trust and adventures, a boy named Author holds the Key to the future, and what will that bring? | Key | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix's "Mister Monday" begins a brand new fantasy series in the "Keys to the Kingdom" series | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
On the home front, Jack is married to a woman who, just like in all the best postwar noir stories, isn't what she seems | Jack | neutral | 0 |
'Turbulent Priests' is fresh and funny | Turbulent Priests | neutral | 0 |
Naturally Arthur wants to concentrate on curing the plague, since his own family is involved | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
But, as Marshall slowly reveals, there are tiny cracks around the foundation of the Whalen family --- not necessarily fissures or yawning chasms, but cracks nonetheless | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
It is about a pair of twins | twins | neutral | 0 |
Some characters were hypocritical and detestable | characters | negative | 0 |
I recommend this book to those who have situations that | book | positive | 0 |
In My Darling, My Hamburger, they talk about many topics amoung teens today | My Darling, My Hamburger | 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 |
On the bright side the `summary' pages are good | summary | positive | 0 |
It is a very entertaining novel and all fans of McDermid will relish it | fans | positive | 0 |
East of the Mountains is the tale of a solitary, 73-year-old Seattle widower | East of the Mountains | 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 | plauge | negative | 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 | sex | negative | 0 |
They introduce their awkward friends Maggie and Dennis to each other | Maggie | negative | 0 |
The Will gives him instructions on how to get the Greater Key (shaped like the hour hand on a clock) from Mister Monday and become Master of the Lower House | Greater Key | neutral | 0 |
This book is a total mess: the key concept makes no sense, the characters are mostly uninteresting, and the big introductory scene about the murder of the scientist's family has NOTHING to do with the plot | characters | negative | 0 |
Maggie goes out with Dennis who looks like an "undernourished zucchini | Dennis | 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 | war | neutral | 0 |
Also I thought it was really cool with the house, the way it was described I like it a lot | house | positive | 0 |
This book is not the best book for storytime or a bedtime story | storytime | negative | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Despite some minor flaws such as once-established character names changing possibly due to fautly editing and printing, this is in my opinion a great book for several reasons I can't really get into right now other than the giant Dragonflys of the Planet Pandora is such a cool and crazy aspect of the book and the story of the mystery of the hind leg is completely wild and that the Strugatsky's are funny as hell | Strugatsky | positive | 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 | Tony Hill's aspect | positive | 0 |
This is the first book in the Keys to the Kingdom series by Garth Nix | book | neutral | 0 |
This author illustrates for the reader just how vile murder and violence are | violence | negative | 0 |
Except for overuse of the words "diffident" and "irresolute" (a nitpick, to be sure), The Intruders succeeds as a thoroughly gripping and surprising creepy tale -- although, in the end, it left me with more questions than answers | The Intruders | positive | 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! | supernatural forces | neutral | 0 |
Don't get me wrong, the book had storyline like no other, it's characters ( or bad guys ) were discribed in a way you just couldn't miss em and | characters | positive | 0 |
I would certainly RECOMMEND this book to all the young readers out there, and even a few of the older ones | young readers | positive | 0 |
Diabola also discovers that she has powers where she can set things on fire, which is how she burned the school down | powers | neutral | 0 |
They soon discover that they have special powers | special powers | neutral | 0 |
His gym teacher forces him to run a cross country race even though he explains that he had just recovered from a serious bout of Asthama | Asthama | neutral | 0 |
This is a great first book of the series | book | positive | 0 |
I could not put this book down | book | positive | 0 |
This key enables him to fight off the dog-faced Fetchers that are searching his school for him, and then get into the mysterious House he alone seems to be able to see in order to find a cure for the Sleepy Plague the Fetchers seem to have started | mysterious House | neutral | 0 |
In the House, Arthur encounters Suzy Turquoise Blue, a cheeky Cockney girl from the 17th century of his own world and one of the "Piper's Children"; the personified Will itself in the form of a tiny frog with a penchant for jumping down people's throats; the "Old One," whose identity should be obvious to anyone with an interest in classical mythology, and assorted other Denizens | House | 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 | badness | neutral | 0 |
A definite must-read for McDermid fans! | fans | positive | 0 |
It has many historical facts that are fascinating! Great book, I will read it again and again | book | positive | 0 |
Here is the ultimate biography of the most brutal, flamboyant gangster of all time-Al Capone | Al Capone | positive | 0 |
This novel focuses on the issue of sex and it helps teenagers understand how complicated it gets if the teenager decides to develope a intimid relationship | teenagers | positive | 0 |
Tony Hill is also in Europe, helping the police solve a series of murders in which psychologists are the victims | psychologists | negative | 0 |
Arthur uses the key to enter into a mysterious house (that only he can see) in hopes of finding a cure | key | neutral | 0 |
Capone because of his leadership qualities and friendship with Torrio becomes a effective leader of the Chicago underworld | Capone | neutral | 0 |
Kingston does a great job of weaving together pop culture and history, and she's a fun writer | pop culture | positive | 0 |
I suggest this book to people who love mysterys and adventure | mysterys | positive | 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 | King George VI | negative | 0 |
The writing is good, but | writing | positive | 0 |
A must read for fans of subtlety in general, though anyone who enjoys a good dark mystery will find what he or she is looking for here | dark mystery | neutral | 0 |
Arthur sets off into the house to find a way to save his world | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
But when they go to school the principal thinks Diabola is a genius | Diabola | positive | 0 |
Certainly there are fictional threads running through the tale, but Mr | tale | neutral | 0 |
This confusion is only helped by the fact that Nix tends to rely on extremely vague descriptions of characters and environments that leave the reader wondering where the characters are and what they look like | descriptions | negative | 0 |
When Arthur is suffering from a asthma attack, two men appear to him, and one gives him a key shaped like the minute hand of an old clock | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
This book is about a boy named, Arthur, who recieves a key and an atlas from a mysterious man named Mister Monday | key | neutral | 0 |
'Mister Monday' has everything a hugely popular series needs, loveable characters, a complex plot, and buckets loads of creativity | Mister Monday | positive | 0 |
The real plot involves Carol, her relationship with Tony, and a sting operation that is completely unbelievable | Tony | neutral | 0 |
Kingston's book begins with a description of Prince Charles' and Princess Di's wedding and sort of stays there | Princess Di | neutral | 0 |
He ends up meeting an odd collection of characters that have some connection to time, setting the House back on its course, and of course, finding a cure for the plague | plague | neutral | 0 |
It was a chance Capone was to take | Capone | neutral | 0 |
A little girl in Oregon goes missing | little girl | neutral | 0 |
According to the back cover, the next book is apparently NEVER SURRENDER | back cover | neutral | 0 |
Cuthberson-Jones is left alone to cope with DIabola something she has never done before | DIabola | neutral | 0 |
I must admit, I was a little weary of The Intruders when I first saw it: a cheesy front cover, with an inside flap that promised only what any other mystery novel could offer | front cover | negative | 0 |
This series is great, and I recommend it to anyone to read it, enjoy it and read the other 2(so far) in the series, as well as his Seventh Tower, and the Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen series, theya re all great | series | 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 |
And lots of fun for the adult who refuses to grow up | adult | positive | 0 |
And it's an exciting story that holds your interest until the end | story | positive | 0 |
I think this book is really interesting because no book I've read have got such extreme case | book | positive | 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 | Coal Cellar | neutral | 0 |
it is the best horror/action/adventure book i haver ever read | action | neutral | 0 |
and at school, some dog faced men come in to kill him along with Noon for the key, so Arthur couldn't be master of the Lower House if he could get the hour hand key from Monday inside the strange house | Lower House | neutral | 0 |
These, along with Mr Monday and his avenging messengers with blood-stained wings, will stop at nothing to get back the key, even if it means destroying Arthur and everything around him | key | neutral | 0 |
This author did both, and added a plot that, as others have pointed out, grows satisfyingly creepier on each page -- so much so that I found myself standing at a cross-walk in broad daylight thinking, "I really need to start paying more attention to who's around me | plot | positive | 0 |
Arthur has been chosen by the Will to become Heir to the Kingdom and set right the corruption that is destroying management of the realm | the Will | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix does an excellant job of intertwining the real world with that of the big house | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
There are also a few really violent scenes that make me want to classify this more for Teens | scenes | negative | 0 |
If books on criminal profiling and psychological forensics are your thing, you'll probably really enjoy McDermid's work | McDermid | positive | 0 |
The story of Al Capone is brilliantly laid out in an easy to follow format that takes the reader through Capone's life and motivations | format | positive | 0 |
MISTER MONDAY is the first in a new series by Garth Nix, author of THE SEVENTH TOWER | Garth Nix | neutral | 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 | Leaf | neutral | 1 |
As mentioned by one of the previous reviews that story centers around Jonathan Whitfield a "yankee" being the fish out of water around his cousin Skylar's southern surroundings | Jonathan Whitfield | neutral | 0 |
I picked up Mister Monday with many preconceived notions | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
This book is a wonderful story of two twin sisters, | two twin sisters | neutral | 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 | Arthur | positive | 0 |