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The Spies of Warsaw by Alan Furst | 6 | 8.33% | |
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett | 19 | 26.39% | |
The Day Of The Jackal by Frederick Forsyth | 5 | 6.94% | |
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré | 12 | 16.67% | |
The Scavenger's Daughter by Mike McIntyre | 6 | 8.33% | |
The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian | 3 | 4.17% | |
Bangkok 8 by John Burdett | 3 | 4.17% | |
The Firm by John Grisham | 7 | 9.72% | |
Heat Wave by Richard Castle | 10 | 13.89% | |
Vanishing Act by Thomas Perry | 1 | 1.39% | |
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05-24-2011, 01:35 PM | #31 |
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i personally don't have snobbery towards best sellers, i'm not sure why i never have read it or never plan to. to be honest i've never read anything by john grisham. i'm pretty sure i've seen some films adapted from his books but which ones that i can't tell you either. and no i haven't seen the firm.
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05-24-2011, 02:05 PM | #32 |
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I also enjoyed Heat Wave, and if it wins it would be a good incentive to read the next book in the series, Naked Heat.
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05-24-2011, 02:07 PM | #33 |
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No, not at all. I read many best sellers, including Patterson, Kellerman, Parker, King, Koontz and a host of others. And I'm currently reading the Hunger Games trilogy, which is hardly high art. I just don't rate Grisham as a writer - the couple of his I have read just didn't do it for me.
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05-24-2011, 05:36 PM | #35 |
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The first one I read by Grisham was the Rain Maker and I liked it. But a few more novels were just like re-reading the previous ones. The surprising part is I still enjoy them inpite of knowing that there won't be any surprises or new turns that have not been covered in his previous novels ..
But in this poll I am rooting for The Scavenger's Daughter and hope it wins... din |
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05-24-2011, 06:00 PM | #36 | |
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05-24-2011, 06:50 PM | #38 |
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05-24-2011, 08:10 PM | #39 |
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I have always proffered that it was Stephen J Cannell, but he died last August.
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05-24-2011, 09:30 PM | #40 |
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I've decided not to wait, and I've started The Eiger Sanction.
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05-24-2011, 10:46 PM | #41 |
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05-25-2011, 03:50 AM | #42 |
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I started reading The Spies of Warsaw in bed last night. What a mistake. After four hours I had to force myself to put it down and switch off the light. Then I couldn't sleep because I kept thinking about the story. Today I'm feeling shattered.
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Welcome to the Furst fan club! I'll be reading Warsaw whether it wins or not. I don't want to get through the books too quickly. |
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05-25-2011, 10:06 AM | #44 |
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Blasted library has the front runner, Maltese Falcon, in audio format only. I don't particularly care for audio books. Fortuantely, I believe, that another county has it in book format. I'm venting again, I said in a previous book club thread that I would be venting a lot of the time. Don't feel like spending over $8 on a book, I don't feel that books are worth more than that, blasted publsihers raising the cost of books! More venting.
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