Home :: Books :: Audiocassettes  

Arts & Photography
Audio CDs
Audiocassettes

Biographies & Memoirs
Business & Investing
Children's Books
Christianity
Comics & Graphic Novels
Computers & Internet
Cooking, Food & Wine
Entertainment
Gay & Lesbian
Health, Mind & Body
History
Home & Garden
Horror
Literature & Fiction
Mystery & Thrillers
Nonfiction
Outdoors & Nature
Parenting & Families
Professional & Technical
Reference
Religion & Spirituality
Romance
Science
Science Fiction & Fantasy
Sports
Teens
Travel
Women's Fiction
Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure tm

Time Stops for No Mouse: A Hermux Tantamoq Adventure tm

List Price: $26.00
Your Price: $17.16
Product Info Reviews

<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I really like this book!
Review: This is a really good book that kept me on the edge of my seat until I fell off. It's a great fantasy/mystery that reached out, grabbed my attention, and held onto it. I'm glad I bought it! The only thing that I don't really like about this book is that the names are hard to pronounce, but that adds to the excitement!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best!
Review: After reading this book I was very pleased with it. I liked it because it was about a simple mouse, with a job and a nice cozy little house to come home to in the evening. But changes when he finds out Linka is kidnapped. I liked Pup because he was a nice guy, but you'll soon find that different. Definatly recommended. I've read LOTS of books, and this is one of my favorites!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Joy to Listen to
Review: My 9 & 12 year old loved this book and so did I. We listened to it while driving and often sat in the driveway for 5 or 10 minute to finish up a particularly exciting part. For the children there'a timid, fallible yet honest hero who tries his hardest; for adults there are jokes galore, ranging from the names to sly digs at current issues. My 12 year old is a very harsh judge of books and an expert in the fantasy/sci-fi realm and she thought this was perfect fun. We're halfway through the sequel, still laughing.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Stomach Turns for This Mouse
Review: -----------
Awful, Awful book.

Ripoffs from just about any modern (but good) literature:

The Hobbit: A boring, mousy (pun intended) character [think Frodo] being set up for great adventure.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Use of gobbledygook character names, but without Douglas Adams' ease of pronunciation or sense of humor. Zaphod Beeblebrox and Slartibartfast are easy to pronounce by comparison.

Harry Potter: Chapter heading illustrations that look like clip art or sterile CAD drawings. Boring & meaningless.

Beatrix Potter: cute little animals walking on their hind legs, pretending to be human. Arrggh.

Other points:

Seventy-five chapters, evidently written in seventy-five days.
Paragraph-long descriptive lists of items - tiresome.
Lovingly detailed descriptions of pointless action and conversation.
Cardboard, stereotyped characters: timid hero, dashing adventuress, nasty & tempestuous harpy neighbor etc. No depth, and I couldn't work up sympathy for any of the characters.

I read nightly to my 5-year old daughter, and with this book I had to constantly edit out highly objectionable speech and long boring passages that add nothing to the plot or action. If I have to perform real-time intensive surgery just to read a book, then what's the point? Too much work for me, and too little enjoyment all around.

You'd be better in finding some other books. I threw this book across the room and chose to reread Eiko Kadono's "Witch's Express Delivery" (in the States, "Kiki's Delivery Service") and now everyone's having more fun.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the best book ever
Review: While reading this book, you will be in another world. It starts when mouse watchmaker Hermux Tantamoq meets mouse pilot Linka Perflinger and he falls in love with her. Then she was missing.Can he rescue her? Read the book to find out!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Time is a Precious Thing
Review: Time Stops For No Mouse is a great book. It starts out when a mouse watchmaker meets an unusual mouse. He takes care of her watch, but she never comes back for it. The watchmaker decides to invetigate. He winds up spying on mice,having a code name, and getting in some big trouble.
As the book goes on the mouse finds out that this whole thing is about a youth formula his apartment neighbor wants.
Will the watch maker catch the formula in time? Will evil prevail? Read the book to find out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: AWESOME book!
Review: This book was great-it took me about an hour and a half to read it cover-to-cover. I love Hermux Tantamoq:he is a very likable mouse. The author has a great imagination;the plot is full of twists and turns that are pretty much unpredictable. The writing would make some people shudder(sentence structure and all that) but it flows and is very easy to read. This book is my new favorite- I really recommend that you buy it! Age- any age. I won't say any of those corny "6 to 106" things but this is one instance where they actually might apply. Happy reading!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Real Page Turner
Review: This Book is DA'BOMB!!...
It makes you feel like your write in the story as Hermux Tantamoq, A mouse who is local watchmaker who falls in love with linka perflinger when she walks in his shop to get her watch repaired, goes on this never-ending search for linka perflinger who is a adventuress and out going mouse. When she doesn't come in to pick up her watch. Hermux sets out on a never ending search for her and meets up with some very creepy and not-so creepy charaters. This is a AWESOME book and i hope you read it!!...

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A bit unusual
Review: All the characters in this book are animals, rodents of one kind or another, who otherwise act just like humans, yet this book was written for a young adult audience, not for the toddler crowd. I kept wondering who would read this book, but I see from previous reviews that quite a few people, both children and adults, read it and enjoyed it.

All the characters have strange names--Hermux Tantamoq, Linka Perflinger, Tucka Mertslin, Ortolina Perriflot (alias Blanda Nergup), Pup Schoonagliffen, to name but a few. Why is that, dear author?

Occasionally the author forgets himself. He has Hermux with paws on one page and fingers on the next.

Basically, I enjoyed the story, a fast-paced mystery with plenty of action as well as tender moments.

What I really longed to see were some illustrations of the many fascinating characters. Although Hoeye does an excellent job of describing their clothing and appearance, I yearned for some pictures a la The Wind in the Willows.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WONDERFUL AND CAPTIVATING STORY!!!!
Review: I LOVED THIS BOOK!!! You will too if you love adventure, excitement, love, mystery, surprise, suspense...etc. etc. etc..... this could go on forever! I am in 8th grade and although it was an easy read, I loved this book from page 1.

It is the story of a young watchmaker mouse, Hermux Tantamoq. He lives an ordinary everyday life until an adventuress, Linka Perflinger, comes in with a smashed watch claiming that the watch must tell perfect time otherwise one second could mean life or death. Hermux sets to work right away and finishes by the deadline but when the deadline comes Linka doesn't come, but a shady looking rat, that demands the watch but does not have a claim ticket. Hermux then becomes suspicious and worried and follows the rat into a twisting adventure which he must get out of. This book makes a WONDERFUL gift!


<< 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>

© 2004, ReviewFocus or its affiliates