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    Grim Tuesday

    Written by Garth Nix

    Narrated by Allan Corduner

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    About this audiobook

    The second remarkable installment in The Keys to the Kingdom, from spellbinding bestseller Garth Nix.

    Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world--where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets.

    Arthur doesn't think he will ever have to return to the strange house that nearly killed him on Monday--the house that contains an entire world. But Tuesday brings new challenges--in the form of an enemy named Grim Tuesday, who threatens the well-being of both Arthur's family and his world. Arthur must retrieve the Second Key from Grim Tuesday in order to save everything--an adventure that will include stealing a Sunship, surviving a very weird work camp, befriending a bear-like spirit, fighting the void-like Nithlings, and traveling in the scary Far Reaches for the ultimate showdown.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 13, 2004
    ISBN9780807217306
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    Grim Tuesday
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    Garth Nix

    Garth Nix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and has been a full-time writer since 2001 but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve. Garth’s many books include the Old Kingdom fantasy series, beginning with Sabriel and continuing to Goldenhand; the sci-fi novels Shade’s Children and A Confusion of Princes; the Regency romance with magic Newt’s Emerald; and novels for children including The Ragwitch, the Seventh Tower series, the Keys to the Kingdom series, and Frogkisser!, which is now in development as a feature film with Fox Animation/Blue Sky Studios. Garth has written numerous short stories, some of which are collected in Across the Wall and To Hold the Bridge. He has also cowritten several children’s book series with Sean Williams, including TroubleTwisters and Have Sword, Will Travel. More than six million copies of his books have been sold around the world and his work has been translated into forty-two languages.

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    • 3/5
      In this book Arthur is dragged again in to the world of the house. He does this to stop Tuesday from taking over, destroying the house and get the key. To do this he has to go into his mines. His friend Suzy helps ad the go to his base. they then meet up with the Mariner and get part 2 of the will. With the will Arthur has to battle Tuesday to get the key. Arthur wins the battle and goes home to wait for the attack of Wednesday. This book was O.K. I think that this book had no really breath taking climax. I would probably spend my time reading a different series and is a quick read. Some parts could have been taken out also. I didn't like having to remember what was what. Over all it was a small quick read that I found O.K.
    • 4/5
      Reluctant 'hero', asthmatic Arthur Penhaligon must return much sooner than he wishes to the House and engage in combat with Grim Tuesday in order to obtain the Second Key and save the realm from a dangerous outbreak of Nothing. Aided by a couple of new friends as well as previous companion Suzy Turquoise Blue, Arthur gains more courage, but also learns there are drawbacks to using the magic of the Keys.
    • 3/5
      Arthur has barely been back in the real world for a day when he finds himself drawn into the affairs of the realms again. After defeating Mr. Monday, our intrepid young protagonist finds himself the target of malicious attacks by Grim Tuesday. With his family under attack as well, Arthur sees no other solution than to take on this new villain. Grim Tuesday's dark kingdom presents its own challenges but together with Susie and a few new friends, Arthur has a fighting chance of getting the second part of the will and freeing all the slaves in the nothing pits.This series is starting to grow on me, I think. I enjoyed this book a lot more than the last one.
    • 3/5
      This is my second favorite of the series. Well laid out and continues to build on the world/characters/plot as well as adding new elements along the way.
    • 3/5
      In the midst of a fatal asthma attack, Arthur was given a smidgen of magical power. Using it, he was able to not only survive the attack, but also stage a revolution against the languid Mister Monday. After claiming Monday's powers for his own, Arthur granted them to a Steward so he could return to the mortal world to continue living life as a child. But the second Monday ended, Tuesday began--and Grim Tuesday was fearful that Arthur would do to him what he'd already done to Mister Monday. And so once again, Arthur was forced into a magical world where he was magically out-classed and far too physically delicate.

      Arthur is wonderfully unique, and his travails always thrill. His first opponent was the epitome of a man made lazy and entitled by unchecked privilege. The second, Grim Tuesday, could easily be read as a personification of industrial progress at the expense of ecology or human rights. I'm interested to see what the third one will be!
    • 3/5
      There were railway tracks behind the desk, only ten yards away but unseen until. Arthur tripped over the first rail. Inspecting them with the lantern, Arthur saw they were made of some dull metal that looked like bronze, and they were set very wide apart, at least eight feet, which he thought was a wider gauge than any railway back in his world. The rails ran on stone sleepers rather than wood or concrete, and the rubble under and between the sleepers was of some strange material that was the shape and color of wood chips but was very heavy and hard — perhaps another kind of light stone.Although he expected to be left alone to live his life for the next 5 or six years, Arthur is drawn back to the House the very next day, when Grim Tuesday, who is in charge of mining Nothing in a great pit beneath the House, launches a legal battle against him since Mister Monday had not beein paying his bills. Still quite convoluted.
    • 5/5
      Yeah, another great book by Nix. Exciting, interesting, inventive, fun. I'm sure I'll be reading this entire series.
    • 4/5
      Arthur Penhaligon is an ordinary boy whose life changes when he has a near-fatal asthma attack while running during PE. Just as he is about to lose consciousness he is given a key by a mysterious man. The man, Mr. Monday, has determined that Arthur is about to die, but with the benefits of modern medicine and his inhaler, Arthur survives and sets off an adventure quest to search for 7 keys of a mysterious house. Each quest involves battling 7 Morrow Days who are the trustees of the house and represent the 7 Deadly Sins. Grim Tuesday is the 2nd book in the series (Mister Monday is the first), and in this book Arthur's adventure takes him to the Far Reaches of the house where he must face Grim Tuesday who is afflicted by Greed. I had listened to Mr. Monday many years ago but have started the series over in audio with my 13-year old son... and loving it. Very well narrated and incredibly clever.
    • 4/5
      Reading this series back to back is definitely better than the piecemeal way I was reading them when I read them as they came out (briefly as that lasted). There's no space between the books -- minutes at best between the end of Mister Monday and the beginning of Grim Tuesday. So it's nice to read them in one go. (It's also nice to read them on the appropriate days. I'll be greatly amused if I can keep that up all week.)

      I didn't remember this book as well as Mister Monday, but I'm pretty sure I did read it. The same applies to this book re: the pace, the fun-ness, the lack of true emotional connection... It might be more helpful to think of this series as one long book split up into seven: so far that's true, anyway, but we'll see.

      I'm interested by the reversal of the magical healing of Arthur: often, if characters have some kind of disability, it's handwaved away. People think that it only makes sense, things are easier plot-wise that way. But with Arthur, Garth Nix went out of his way to reverse that.

      I loved the inclusion of the Mariner, and the slight reference to his background, which doesn't wave it around shouting, "Look! Clever literary reference! Look at meeee!". I love that he's related to the Piper, and whose son he is. I hope he comes into it more later, and I hope more is revealed about what his parents are/were like...
    • 3/5
      This was fun. I've decided I'm going to think of the individual titles in this series as chapters in a larger book. Or maybe as one of those Saturday matinee serials from the forties with the cliffhanger endings!

      I'm a little older than the target audience on this one, okay face it, a lot older, and so for me these are very short reads. But I'm enjoying them quite a bit. Garth Nix respects the intelligence of his readers, whichever age group he's writing for.

      In this installment, our hero Arthur faces Grim Tuesday, a villanous industrail revolution tycoon type who is undermining the very foundations of the House in his insatiable quest for power.
    • 4/5
      The second in The Keys to the Kingdom series; in the children's / YA section.The first part of the Will of the Architect has been restored. The Key to the Lower House has been recovered, but the Trustees - now the Morrow Days - are plotting to get it back.Arthur Penhaligon has just returned home after winning the Key from Mister Monday. Just one minute into Tuesday (although six months have passed in the House), he finds himself in the thick of things again, as Grim Tuesday, ruler of the Far Reaches of the House (whose associated sin is greed) goes on the offensive. This time, Arthur's family members suddenly face financial crises through no fault of their own, and Arthur realises he has to go back into the depths of the House to save them. Once there, he finds that the foundations of the House, and so those of all creation, are under threat from encroaching Nothing; and he finds himself pitted against Grim Tuesday in a race for mastery of the Second Key.This book was as intriguing, although possibly not quite as action-packed as the first instalment. Looking forward to more!
    • 3/5
      Arthur Penhaligeon is an asthmatic, both of his birth parents are dead, and is trying to deal with the mysterious events that have just occurred with him. He had finally returned from the weird realms filled with mysterious creatures made of nothing and almost immortal people. He had to fight for rule of the badly controlled part of the realm.He had made an agreement with one of the other high officials of the realm to leave him alone for at least six months, so Arthur could live a slightly normal childhood. It isn’t even six hours when he is called back. Going back shows a new challenge of taking over a new part of the realm which is also badly ruled.The old ruler of the realm that Arthur had just taken over (Mister Monday) had debts with the ruler of the next part of the realm (Grim Tuesday). Of course, since the last ruler is dead, they are now Arthur’s debts. He knows that he must return to the realms and fix the newly arisen problems.Nothing can ever be easy, as the last time Arthur entered the realms through a mish-mash of a house that mysteriously appeared, and only he could see it. When he left the realms for the first time, he left through the house, but it immediately disappeared as fast as it had appeared.Then he meets these strange men-like things that he was sure were from the realms, and they told him how to get into the house. He found the place, but inside, there was another one of these men with a strange machine. Arthur walked past him and entered the door that would take him to the realms.The book, called Grim Tuesday, the second book of the series (The Keys to the Kingdom series) by Garth Nix is a good follow-up to the first book. It was interesting, but I don’t believe it was as good as the first book.Just like in the first one, the plot was interesting and mysterious. It is mostly a mix of action and adventure, but they were a little unbalanced. A lot of the time, the characters were just wandering around in the realms. There are still quite a few twists in the book that make you think, but it’s still a little boring.The description was good, but sometimes things were a little dragged out. The description was almost too good in some places. An event that would take a page to describe took a whole chapter. If you don’t count that, the description was good.As I said before, there was a little action. There was barely enough to make it interesting. It was a little unbalanced with the adventure in the book. The action that was in there wasn’t a climactic fight scene or battles, there was just basic bits of it.Overall, this is a good fiction book for a young adult reader. In general, there is enough of all of the components to make it worth reading. Even though it is lacking in some areas, the rest of it is good enough. I’d rate this book three stars.
    • 3/5
      Arthor Penhalingon, our hero from the first book in this series, and the keeper of the key for the Lower House is drawn into a battle with Grim Tuesday to protect hs home and his family. Arthur needs to leave the Secondary Realm of Earth and travel to the Far reaches and defeat Grim Tuesday in a battle against greed and avarice. Again good (Arthur) must overcome evil (Grim) while helping the less fortunate.Again a fun read for the youth, with introduction of several new characters - along with Suzy Turquoise Blue from the first book, Japeth the walking Thesaurus, Captain Shelvocke the sea-faring brother of the Pied Piper. Arthur sets sail with Captain Shelvocke to find the second fragment of the Will. Expecting the same type of character as the original will in Mister Monday, the reader is pleasantly surprised by this portion. I'm looking forward to the next book.
    • 3/5
      The novel, The Keys to the Kingdom: Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix encompasses the main theme of rightousness and resposibility. In the beginning, Arthor Penhalingon, struggles with obtaining the will being witheld by Grim Tuesday. Throughout the middle he perseveres through the Far Reaches with Japeth, a former Thesaurus. By the end he has learned that he must overtake all the rulers of the Days to obtain the full will. (390/390)
    • 4/5
      Looking back, this was probably my favorite in the series. The villain is truly villainous, the action is fairly non-stop, we meet more of the significant secondary characters, and we're starting to get some hints about the underlying story.
    • 3/5
      Grim Tuesday's domain was far more depressing and there's less action in this book. But still an enjoyable read.
    • 5/5
      This is a ***spoiler warning*** for the first book in the series, Mister Monday.Arthur has just returned home from defeating Mister Monday and taking control of the Key to the Lower House. He chose to return home as a mortal, appointing the Will as trustee, and saved everyone from the sleepy plague. Now, it's Tuesday morning, which means that the next denizen - Grim Tuesday - has some power in the Secondary Realms, which includes Arthur's home. The Will informs him of trouble in the House, and Grim Tuesday's servants are troubling Arthur's family in an attempt to take the first Key from him. Will Arthur be able to survive the Far Reaches and gain control of the second Key?Listening to the audiobook confirmed for me that I prefer listening to this series. Allan Corduner's narration and interpretation of the characters makes the story that much more interesting, the pace that much more exciting. I'd forgotten a lot of the details of the story, and enjoyed it just as much the second time around. Arthur just wants to be a regular boy, but he has a sense of right and wrong and what he must do for himself, his family, his friends, and his home. Suzy Turquoise Blue is funny and loyal and has an interesting back story in her own right. I'm looking forward to rereading - er, listening - to Drowned Wednesday, the next book in the series.
    • 4/5
      Still really enjoying the series, but the physicality in this one was a little tough for me. Walking for miles and miles on the dark, and crawling for hours and hours across the ceiling with stupid wings banging constantly, then breaking a leg in a horrific fall - I don't know how one kid survived that long. And then to have an unsuspected talent burst forth in a competition, well, it was all a little much.Still, this is the most magnificent world building I've encountered in a while, I love Susie, and (squeee!) the Ancient Mariner! And he's the Pied Piper's brother! Fantasy does not get more lovely than that.
    • 2/5
      Blech. These books make absolutely no sense.
    • 5/5
      Book 2 in the keys to the kingdom series is a very enjoyable read, While book one is still my favorite this delivers everything you loved about the first while continuing the story of Arthur and his quest to obtain the keys, I highly recommend this book and this series.
    • 4/5
      Grim Tuesday flooded me with a lot of emotion.
    • 4/5
      I found this second book a little more compelling than the first. There's just still a little too much that gets resolved by chance or by someone showing up in the nick of time, which leaves the story still feeling shallow. The imagery in The House is fantastic though, which is enough to amuse my imagination when the plot starts to feel a little thin.
    • 3/5
      It's now Tuesday, so Tuesday gets his shot at the new kid who has Monday. There was a lot that reminded me of Monday in this book, it could get boring real fast if it keeps up...
    • 3/5
      Arthur has to race time to save our world from the second Trustee of the Will, which names Arthur as rightful heir to a strange kingdom. He must overcome the limitations of his asthma, Sisyphean tasks and the powerful magic of the Grim.This was a satisfying continuation of the series, though pretty straightforward, with no astounding plot twists or deep character development. This series is like a less-clever Phantom Tollbooth, with lots of word play and some literary references. Probably of more interest to middle grade readers.
    • 4/5
      I didn't like this QUITE as much as the first book in the series, but it was still great fun, and I'm looking forward to reading the sequel.