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Eye of the Needle
Ken Follett
Avon, 2000
What a thriller!!
+ Follett Set the Standard for the WW2 Thriller Genre with "Die Nadel"
+ This was a good one
+ This book became a movie
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Imprimatur
Rita Monaldi, Francesco Sorti
Lattès, 2002
The best historical novel ever
+ A VOYAGE!
+ L'histoire romancée
+ Good book
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Raiders of the Lost Ark
Harrison Ford, Karen Allen
Paramount Pictures
CLASSIC ACTION & ADVENTURE! FORD'S DEFINING ROLE!
+ Not-so-Special Edition... great film, anemic extras
+ This is the greatest movie ever!
+ Still good after all this time.
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The Man With The Golden Gun (Special Edition)
Roger Moore, Christopher Lee
MGM (Video & DVD), 2002
A Good James Bond Movie
+ Man with the Golden Gun
+ Thrilling, exotic, fun, sexy...
+ Perhaps the most undervalued Bond of them all
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L.A. Confidential
Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe
Warner Home Video, 1998
Superb
+ Best cop movie ever!
+ Hanson's LA film noir
+ Intriguing
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The Odessa File
Frederick Forsyth
Bantam Books, 1995
More than a page turner
+ A Favorite World War II Genre Taken to Fine Fiction Art
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ one of my all-time favorites
+ Awesome Storyteller!
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The Spy Who Loved Me (Special Edition)
Roger Moore, Barbara Bach
United Artists, 2002
[4.5] Possibly the biggest Bond movie ever
+ One of the best Bond movies.
+ "Just Keeping The British End Up?"
Maybe not the biggest Bond movie in terms of overall enjoyment, but certainly it has the feel of a huge movie - especially after coming off the very timid "The Man with the Golden Gun". The large increase in movie budget was one of the factors that made The Spy Who Loved Me so big, with plenty of ...
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The Club Dumas
Arturo Perez-Reverte, Sonia Soto
Vintage, 1998
Perez-Reverte, In Spanish or English, a great author.
+ Too much information
+ Great Reading, Intriguing
Much better than the movie. Great info on forgeries, book making,engraving and of course the history of books dealing with the "devil."
I read this in English first and was so impressed I had to read the original. I found the original as easy to read as any English novel.
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Jaws - 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition
Susan Backlinie, John Bahr
Universal Studios, 2000
"Some bad hat Harry"
+ stay out of the water
+ He's out there, watching...waiting...
+ A classic that you must own.
+ It's JAWS - what more do you need to know?
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Doubleday, 2003
Dan Brown
+ Hard to put down.
Dan Brown hit a homerun here. This book has an awesome story line and really keeps you wanting more. The action is fast yet easy to keep up with. Brown has a great way of making you feel like you know what's going on in the story, but still surprises you in the end. Read the book first, saw the ...
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The Firm
John Grisham
Dell Publishing Company, 1992
Beware of Offers You Cannot Refuse
+ Scott Brick does a good job reading this thriller
+ Good Read
+ awesome page turner
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The Bourne Identity (Bourne Trilogy, Book 1)
Robert Ludlum
Bantam, 1984
Wow - blows the movie right out of the water!
+ Best spy novel, in my opinion
+ Bourne Fan
+ Great Book
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Star Wars - Episode IV, A New Hope (Special Edition)
Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford
20th Century Fox, 1997
Do i really need a title? is that really necessary?
+ Everybody's favourite space fairytale
+ This is why I waited
Look i just wanted to rate this product. it was great. i shouldn't have waited so long to buy it but then i had the VHS version till about a few months ago. the DVD set has an awesome bonus disc that contains a documentary about the struggles George Lucas had just making star wars happen. ...
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
John le Carre
Scribner, 2001
one of the masterworks of literature
+ Great Spy Novel
+ The perfect novel for a 3 day weekend
+ a spy is no superman
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The Day of the Jackal
Frederick Forsyth
Bantam, 1982
Archetypical page-turner
+ And an Exciting Day It Is!
+ Not Free SF Reader
+ A killer ending.
+ Forsyth at full force
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