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Marshall makes you read through to the end but you'll be scratching your head over many of his plot choices, and I can't make up my mind whether the story is actually crazy stupid, or maybe too smart for a moron like myself | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
But the biggest problem with The Last Temptation is that McDermid tries too hard to force a particular ending | The Last Temptation | neutral | 0 |
Read Garth Nix for unique and engaging fantasy | fantasy | positive | 0 |
Then, Aurther notices a strange house that only he can see | Aurther | neutral | 0 |
In this series starter, Arthur learns what power he has as he tries to determine how to live his life with this key that he has obtained and this house and little, scary fantasy creatures that no one else can see but him | house | 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 | atlas | neutral | 0 |
When Angela and Diabla are together it calms diabla down | Diabla | neutral | 0 |
I like this book because it has action, suspense and a little bit of drama | action | positive | 0 |
I got "class trip" from a library for 10 cents | class trip | neutral | 0 |
WINSTON'S WAR is the first in a series of novels about Churchill's wartime leadership | Churchill's wartime leadership | 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 | Arthur | positive | 0 |
Imagine a vast world inside a House where everything we know in the modern day is questioned | House | negative | 0 |
THE INTRUDERS is a tale well-spun with lashings of deceit & determination, action & clues, body & mind invasions & chases, & other scary stuff | tale | positive | 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 | Angela | positive | 0 |
My favorite part was when Arthur and NOon both had swords | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Without any sense of trying to make the experience any more horrifying than it was Primo Levi describes the day to day existence with clarity | Primo Levi | positive | 0 |
But so is Angela | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Can Angela stop Diabola before its too late? Or will Diabola destroy the city? Read Angela and Diabola, by Lynn Reid Banks and find out! | Lynn Reid Banks | neutral | 0 |
Liz and Sean seem to be a smooth and sophisticated senior high school couple | Sean | neutral | 0 |
Suzy: a young girl, sensitive, impulsive, strong and brave | Suzy | positive | 0 |
The audience needs to set aside plenty of time as 392 pages is a one sitting suspense read | suspense | neutral | 0 |
It's one of the most inventive, Wonderland-adventures I've read in a long time | Wonderland-adventures | positive | 0 |
His world faced with plague & destruction, Arthur finds the courage to enter the unknown House and try to discover the origins of the mysterious key he was bequeathed, and which rather threatening characters are trying to take from him | key | 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 | Marijke | 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 | Sleepy Plauge | neutral | 0 |
This Australian author is fast-becoming one of the biggest names in fantasy with his reinvention of the genre and his intricate, fascinating plots | Australian author | positive | 0 |
He must confont the sloth Mister Monday in order to gain mastery of the lower house and save his world | Mister Monday | negative | 0 |
Zndel is generally a brilliant, brilliant writer, this book just did not measure up to the standards it's being judged against | Zndel | positive | 0 |
T here Arthur met a girl named Suzy Turquoise | Suzy Turquoise | neutral | 0 |
I personally love fantasy books, and Garth nix can draw people like me into his writing | Garth nix | positive | 0 |
Mister Monday is a great book and I would highly recommend it | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
It's darker than any other teen / Young Adult novel I can think of | novel | neutral | 0 |
Diabola becomes mad and uses her powers to make their eyes sting | Diabola | negative | 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 |
McDermid brings to light some of the darker deeds of the Nazis that are generally not known and discussed and for this she should be commended | Nazis | neutral | 0 |
(EG 9, 10) The plot isn't exactly complex but the language colours the story very well and inpires a lot of imagination | plot | negative | 0 |
I loved it when Diabola went asking for money and said, " Give me some money and I won't hurt you!" to the man and sending away those 2 people with the invisibe gun that shot 1 of them away | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
When Angela is near Diabola, she can't do anything wrong | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Watch out for Angela's beauty and Diabola's devilness | Diabola | negative | 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 |
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 | Arthur | 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 | key concept | negative | 0 |
he has Asmatha and the minute hand looking key saves him | minute hand looking key | neutral | 0 |
Having said that, this must be an absolute thrill to read when you're nine or ten | thrill | neutral | 0 |
Two of Nicky's friends come by to visit Mog and the kittens, wishing that they themselves had a kitten | Nicky | neutral | 0 |
Hill books I've read | Hill | neutral | 0 |
It provides a great insight into the behind the scenes goings-on in parliament, the rivalries and treacheries in the run up to Winston Churchill becoming Britains war time Prime Minister | Winston Churchill | neutral | 0 |
The authors imagination is great and unpredictable | authors | positive | 0 |
Arthur knows he has to find a cure for it | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
The author knows how to make the characters come alive--I felt like I was an active observer/participant so easily | characters | positive | 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 | criminal psychologist | neutral | 0 |
Arthur is saved by a key, that chages his fate entirely | key | neutral | 0 |
In fact, you're supposed to end this story hating and pitying Sean who got her pregnant in the first place | Sean | negative | 0 |
Anyway, Agatha Christie wrote one of the best Poirot novels ever | Agatha Christie | positive | 0 |
Val McDermid's latest novel, "The Last Temptation," is an ambitious undertaking | Val McDermid | neutral | 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 |
Based on historical fact, WINSTON'S WAR is a solid and absorbing fictional rendition of the leadership struggle between Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Winston Churchill between October 1, 1938 and May 10, 1940 | Winston Churchill | neutral | 0 |
Mysterious dog faced animals are chasing after Arthur trying to get back the key, and they've brought a mysterious Sleeping Plague with them that could kill thousands, if not millions, since the doctors seem to have no cure at all | key | neutral | 0 |
His world faced with plague & destruction, Arthur finds the courage to enter the unknown House and try to discover the origins of the mysterious key he was bequeathed, and which rather threatening characters are trying to take from him | House | neutral | 0 |
In having this attach Arthur Penhaligon meets two new friends (Leaf and Ed twin brother and sister) and also gets a suprise, Mister Monday and his buttler, Sneezer, appear with a flash of light and give Arthur a gift,(Arthur thinks Sneezer is up to something but does not know) a minute hand of a clock (the clock that was guarding the will) and a book (An Atlas he can't yet open) | minute hand of a clock | neutral | 0 |
Cuthbertson-Jones, their mother, giving birth to the twins | Cuthbertson-Jones | neutral | 0 |
He gets caught in all this mess about trying to get a key from this guy whose name is Mister Monday | key | neutral | 0 |
In conclusion, If you like your science fiction deep, funny and scary at the same time while being horizonal, moody, inventive, and original, then you'll have to settle for something eles because this book is out of print and I just spilt coffee and squoze the guts of a tuna fish sandwich all over mine | science fiction | neutral | 0 |
How did the language of psychoanalysis become the dominant idiom in which the middle classes of the industrialized West speak about their emotions? Ernest Gellner offers a forceful and complex answer to this intriguing question in The Psychoanalytic Movement | The Psychoanalytic Movement | neutral | 0 |
Her chapter on divorce, for example, portrays women who just about break the law getting back at their ex-husbands | divorce | neutral | 0 |
The twins were like one single person divided into two or twins were one got all the good and the other got all the bad | twins | neutral | 0 |
With the help of his new interesting friends, Suzy and the Will, he will face his destiny to become the rightful heir(s) | Suzy | 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 |
I personally disliked the lack of a group of constant supporting characters in the novel | characters | negative | 0 |
Then there was a big fire that Noon started trying to get the key | key | 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 | house | neutral | 0 |
Her psychological material is carefully researched and propels the plot along at a brisk pace | plot | positive | 0 |
Soon Arthur is besieged by a Mister Monday and a band of vengeance seekers with blood-stained wings | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
But no matter what Angela loves Diabola, even when Diabola trys to kill her | Diabola | negative | 1 |
Jack agrees to take the case, but when he calls his wife who is in Seattle on business, the hotel desk clerk says she has not checked in and she fails to answer her cell phone | wife | neutral | 0 |
Not long after, Arthur's hometown is ravaged by an unexplainable plague | plague | neutral | 0 |
So now it's up to Arthur to set things to right | Arthur | 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 |
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 |
Throughout the book the narrative switches between Maggie and her tentative relationship with Dennis and Liz's problems with Sean | Sean | neutral | 0 |
This book is a wide-ranging look at different aspects of being a wife or the contemplation of such | wife | neutral | 0 |
gave a plague called the sleepy plague | sleepy plague | neutral | 0 |
Carol and Tony are also investigating the murder and rape of children | rape | 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 | Carol Jordan | 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 | Churchill | negative | 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 | Morrow Days | neutral | 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 |
This is my 3rd McDermid novel, I previously read 'Mermaids Singing' and 'Wire in the Blood | novel | neutral | 0 |
The arc of the stories is huge, but strongly anchored in the characters and Nix's attention to details | Nix | neutral | 0 |
It's a story of a middle school aged kid named Arthur | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Unsurprisingly, that is exactly what happens and soon the big question in the book is whether or not Sean will do the honorable thing and marry Liz (!!) or if Liz will seek out an illegal abortion on her own | Liz | 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 | Monday | neutral | 0 |
It lamblasts both the (Catholic) church and Irish society in equal measure without taking it all too seriously | Irish society | negative | 0 |
But later their parents made them to be christian and the good one called Angela while the bad one called Diabola | Angela | 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 | role of the wife | neutral | 0 |
Perhaps Dobbs perceived a need to include Carol, Sue and Anna to make it less of a Guy Read | Dobbs | neutral | 0 |
The author explains the "Wedding Industrial Complex" that drives the image of the "perfect" wedding at the expense of all sensibilities | wedding | neutral | 0 |
I especially enjoyed the uncertainty I felt with many supporting characters in this story, never entirely sure until the final pages exactly who could be trusted | characters | positive | 0 |
Cuthbert is expecting a child, but has twins | twins | neutral | 0 |
But when they go to school the principal thinks Diabola is a genius | Diabola | positive | 0 |
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