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Review Date: 7/1/2006
Helpful Score: 2
You're living it. Now read the book.
Review Date: 7/2/2006
The original source of the phrase "shaken and not stirred".
Review Date: 7/1/2006
This would rate zero stars if the idea were not so interesting. Sadly, it is at least as bad in execution, and as pitiful in research as usual for Crichton.
Review Date: 10/16/2006
This is a book I have read over and over again. The feeling from it, the emergency and the unfortunate adventure, the desperation, come through the page in a way that even the best fiction cannot manage.
Review Date: 7/18/2006
A brilliant book with glowing prose, and a deep and sad understanding of the period.
Review Date: 7/1/2006
A beautiful book.
Review Date: 7/1/2006
Probably LeCarré's best, and one of the best espionage novels ever written, both defining and transcending the genre.
Review Date: 7/29/2009
Helpful Score: 1
Rob Inglis's readings of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings are unlikely to be improved upon. He has the accents and the characterization perfect from his own one-man-show based on the books. He knows the proper pronunciations of Tolkien's words and names (except Smeagol, unfortunately). He renders both the spirit and the literary beauty of Tolkien as they should be rendered, reading this best of read-aloud books in a nearly perfect rendition. The only thing that could be better is having it read aloud by your own parent when you're a kid.
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