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I suggest this book for about every bookworm, people who like Garth Nix's books, and Fantasy lover out there | Fantasy lover | positive | 0 |
A young girl goes missing from an Oregon resort town | girl | neutral | 0 |
For example, when Arthur is in an elevator with the "Will" and Suzy Turquoise Blue, (They are going to the 379th floor, so they have the time) Garth Nix explained everything about the plague Arthur wants to cure | Will | 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) | Arthur | neutral | 1 |
When Jack's wife Amy reappears as if nothing is wrong but begins to act just a little bit "not Amy," he finds himself in an uneasy team with the old buddy, Fisher, trying to ferret out the truth behind a shadowy group whose members seem to be hiding some truly strange things | Amy | neutral | 0 |
Placing Gellner's work in the context of contemporary hostile critiques of Freud, Brunner argues that these two blatantly different thinkers might also be seen as kindred spirits | Freud | negative | 0 |
Worse of all is the outbreak of a mysterious illness that puts the whole community into quarantine and Arthur's own family in danger | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
It also shows at the end how even though a couple breaks up they can still be friends | couple | negative | 0 |
If you haven't experienced him in either incarnation, you've missed a treat and this novel is a perfect place to begin familiarising yourself with his work | novel | positive | 0 |
Seeing no other way of helping, Arthur travels to the House, uses his key, and enters its domain | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
I think Kolbler does a good job of detailing the rise of the Mafia | Kolbler | 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 |
It seem she wrote it in the 40's, but in was only published in 1975 | 1975 | neutral | 0 |
I finished the novel last night and found it hard to sleep after that | novel | positive | 0 |
He was about to die when he was handed a minute shaped key from Mister Monday | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Did I mention he was the only one who could see it? Within the house Arthur meets the "Piper's Children" (You heard me!)Actually one of them in particular - Suzy Turquoise Blue and along with her they face many | Piper's Children | neutral | 0 |
Wow! This book is a sure fire winner | book | positive | 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 | scenes | negative | 0 |
The fast and intense plot makes the book absolutely captivating, as Arthur finds out just how deep his adventure goes | book | positive | 0 |
From what I've heard, the author Garth Nix doesn't believe in any religion, and you can see this reflected in the main character Arthur at one point | Arthur | 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' | Key | neutral | 0 |
We see people with angel wings, dinosaurs, an old guy with drilled out eyes, elevators of light, monsters with backwards faces who have one leg longer than the other, etc | monsters | neutral | 0 |
The keys and Mr | keys | neutral | 0 |
I like books with drama and stories that seem true, so I really liked this book | book | positive | 0 |
Tony Hill is also in Europe, helping the police solve a series of murders in which psychologists are the victims | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
Liz and Maggie are the main characters so this could be described as a book for girls, but the lives of Sean and Dennis are also described in important sub-plots | Sean | neutral | 0 |
This novel is one that cannot go undread by young men and women alike | young men | positive | 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 |
Not only is it the perfect second bookend to the Poirot series (since the first Poirot story also took place at Styles), it is also the most intricate and brilliant of the Poirot stories | Poirot series | positive | 0 |
Monday gives Arthur the minute hand to the "Key to the Kingdom" that he posesses | minute hand | neutral | 0 |
I don't usually like long-drawn out English romances that may or may not go somewhere, but this relationship is more realistic than most | relationship | positive | 0 |
Everyone loves Angela much and hate Diabola | Angela | positive | 0 |
The ending seems trite and fumbles for closure | ending | negative | 0 |
The parallel plots work quite well together and greatly heighten suspense to the degree that the book simply cannot be put down | suspense | positive | 0 |
The person who gave it to him is named Monday and wants the key back | Monday | neutral | 0 |
It's in the minor details with which Dobbs fleshes out the story of Chamberlain's fall and the rise of his nemesis, Churchill, to an epic 685 paper-backed pages (UK HarperCollins edition) | Chamberlain | negative | 0 |
He has recently branched out from his drug distribution into people smuggling | drug distribution | neutral | 0 |
I really enjoyed this book because I it was adventurous and everything could turn out either way so you didn’t know how the book ends | book | positive | 0 |
In one chapter, Levi describes how many of the prisoners, after fourteen hours of manual labor, would assemble in one corner of the camp in a market | Levi | neutral | 0 |
I got "class trip" from a library for 10 cents | class trip | neutral | 0 |
I wonder if Agatha Christie decided to kill off Poirot because she knew she could never write anything better than this | Poirot | negative | 0 |
I liked the way the author described all imnportant and non-important characters in such detail, but I didn't like the way he kept coming back to the question "why did Arthur get the key, why is he still alive, who are Mister Monday and Sneezer" | characters | positive | 0 |
Although The only reason Arthur is in this adventure is so he can save the world from the plague the "Key" brought with it | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
In this book, Ernest Gellner uses the psychoanalytic movement as a "case study" to explore the general human tendency to create delusional ideological systems which serve various political, social, and psychological needs | Ernest Gellner | neutral | 0 |
Naturally Arthur wants to concentrate on curing the plague, since his own family is involved | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
being in class mucking around and a lot of boy trouble | boy trouble | negative | 0 |
Arthur starts to think he is losing it, but a few friends from his P | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
"The Meaning of Wife," by Anne Kingston, is an eye-opening page turner, which confronts social patterns, ideologies, and generalizations of what it means to not only be a wife, but a woman in Western Society | ideologies | neutral | 0 |
then there was a guy named Noon came in the library and looked for Arthur then Arthur ran for it and started throwing salt, but some of the dogs got him on his chest,leg, and arm | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Anyone who has a good imagination and likes a great fiction book will enjoy this book | book | positive | 0 |
Monday sends his fetchers to retrieve the key but Arthur doesn't let them | Arthur | 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 |
It is actually a very good book, one that i expect will appeal to many people | book | positive | 0 |
Garth Nix has a hard act to follow in this first, highly imaginative book of The Keys to the Kingdom | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
While at school Arthur obtains a "Key" shaped like a minute hand on a clock | Key | neutral | 0 |
Class Trip was an alright book; the author is pretty talented, except it wasn't too hard or complex to follow, which usually forms the best kind of mystery | book | positive | 0 |
I liked the book for the most part but I think that the author could have put in more about Angela | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Twins: Angela and Diabla | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Plus there are ever present characters of Monday's army, such as Dawn, Noon, and Dusk | Noon | neutral | 0 |
The author knows how to make the characters come alive--I felt like I was an active observer/participant so easily | author | positive | 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 | Aurther | neutral | 1 |
Kingston does a great job of weaving together pop culture and history, and she's a fun writer | history | positive | 0 |
Without giving away anything significant, I can tell you that a major portion of the book was centered around a police officer assuming an alias | police officer | neutral | 0 |
It has picture of different bugs and animal and asks "Which is smallest? Which is the biggest? Although it is without a plot, the book has great pictures, and would be excellent for a short bed time story | animal | neutral | 0 |
This book was written by Stuart J | Stuart J | neutral | 0 |
Their icons growing up on TV were single women, Superwomen who could do it all by themselves | Superwomen | neutral | 0 |
At the end of the story, you will know the characters so well, you will wish there was a sequel! | characters | positive | 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} | Sleepy Pluage | neutral | 0 |
I liked the way the author described all imnportant and non-important characters in such detail, but I didn't like the way he kept coming back to the question "why did Arthur get the key, why is he still alive, who are Mister Monday and Sneezer" | key | neutral | 0 |
We see people with angel wings, dinosaurs, an old guy with drilled out eyes, elevators of light, monsters with backwards faces who have one leg longer than the other, etc | dinosaurs | neutral | 0 |
It's a superb read, really gripping from the first page through to the end | read | positive | 0 |
Can he save himself and keep the key from the sinister Mr | key | neutral | 0 |
If you don't already know it, this is Poirot's last case | Poirot's last case | 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 | British | neutral | 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 |
It is a great book for children, to help them start on a path to learning size relationships | children | positive | 0 |
This was one of the best books on the subjects of women, work, and family that I have read to date | women | positive | 0 |
This is a must-read for all, whether you're a wife or a non-wife! | wife | positive | 0 |
While at school Arthur obtains a "Key" shaped like a minute hand on a clock | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
He is drawn back to the fray when his old love interest, DCI Jordan, becomes involved in a dangerous undercover mission in Eastern Europe | DCI Jordan | neutral | 0 |
Having said that, this must be an absolute thrill to read when you're nine or ten | thrill | neutral | 0 |
Suzy is an excellent character, a good partner/guide for Arthur and the best friend he could have in this world | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Other people are The Franklins, The Luttrells who are the owners of the hotel, Mr | The Luttrells | neutral | 0 |
Well paces and written for it's intended audience, younger readers, it weaves a spell binding story of reluctant heroes and less than evil villains | younger readers | positive | 0 |
Armchair Interviews says: The Intruder is nominated for CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award | The Intruder | neutral | 0 |
It is also rather emotional at times, though, for instance when Angela encounters these weird feelings where she feels she must be near Diabola | Angela | 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 | guide | positive | 0 |
Lynnee Reid Banks (the author) is an excellent writer and the story is understandable, because I understanded when I was 8 | Lynnee Reid Banks | 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 | Carol Jordan | neutral | 0 |
She's not a great writer but she's a fabulous storyteller and her Tony Hill/Carol Jordan mysteries are the best of the bunch | storyteller | positive | 0 |
Kobler shows all the complexities of Al Capone, He may have evil traits, but a very real human came through in Kobler's biography | Kobler | neutral | 0 |
Val McDermid continues her 'Hill and Jordan' series with an entertaining story that combines a dangerous undercover assignment with an investigation of a serial killer, each of which leaves Tony and Carol on the verge of death! | story | positive | 0 |
Suddenly everyone is fighting for ownership of a key which will change the world in this first book of a gripping adventure | adventure | positive | 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 |
She is on a business trip and Jack gets a call from a Seattle cab driver telling him that his wife forgot her cell phone in his cab | Jack | neutral | 0 |
Angela helps, while Diabola hinders | Angela | positive | 0 |
Monday? Garth Nix has done it again with this sure to top the lists yarn | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
A very great suspense novel | suspense novel | positive | 0 |
At first I was amused an entertained by Angela and Diabola the novel by Lynne Reid Banks, but as it progressed and became exceedingly darker, I read the jacket to find that this book was recommended for ages 9-12 | Angela and Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Personally, I don't mind the sacrifice of order a bit, especially in a book for children | children | positive | 0 |