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Title: The Wall by John Marks, Alan Sklar ISBN: 0-7927-2277-9 Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette List Price(USD): $96.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Racist?
Comment: No, The Wall isn't racist, a Hollywood establishment that hasn't seen fit to greenlight a movie based on this amazing thriller centered on a black hero is. Denzel, Will Smith, don't you pay guys to find properties like this for you!
If you love Tom Clancy or those other frequent flyer authors, move on. What John Marks has accomplished in this epic, globe-trotting tour-de-force is a combination of J R R Tolkien and Martin Cruz Smith that no one else could have dreamt up. Shoot outs with Commies in the Mountains of Mordor, that's what this book has, and if some amateur reviewers didn't get it, thank god the professionals at Publishers Weekly did.
I only hope this guy writes another novel before the tiresome twits get him down.
Rating: 5
Summary: The first post-Cold War thriller
Comment: This is the best new novel I've read this year. In a stunning display of bad timing, American intelligence officer, and Communist spy, Stuart Glemnick defects to the east on the same day that the Berlin Wall comes down. Comparisons to the thrillers of Le Carre, Deighton, and Graham Greene are apt, but only up to a point. As Stuart's brother Douglas and Stuart's German lover Uta chase Stuart from one collapsing Communist dicatorship to another, the novel is as much madcap picaresque as it is a thrilling manhunt. Brother Douglas is an exterminator from Dallas, and he is mistaken early on by a crazed CIA agent for a master terrorist named Jiri Klek. The result is a series of hilarious set pieces, as Douglas simultaneously looks for his brother, dodges assassination attempts, and cures hotels all the way across Central Europe of their silverfish infestations. Yes, there's a good deal of Le Carre here, but also a good deal of Pynchon and Delillo, with not a little of the satirical spirit of Candide thrown in. This is a wholly original and shamelessly entertaining book, the first real post-Cold War novel. I can't wait to read the author's next one.
Rating: 2
Summary: Disappointing Read
Comment: I found this book while on vacation in a beach house and I was looking forward to a good book to escape with. Too bad this wasn't the book. The plot was weak -- too cliched and too convenient. ...And Styles?? Jiri must not be that good of a terrorist if his two attempts on Styles still haven't finished the job. Maybe I missed something since most reviewers enjoyed the book. But as a German and History teacher, this novel really left something to be desired.
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Title: War Torn by John Marks ISBN: 1573222542 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 06 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Late George Apley by John P. Marquand ISBN: 0316735671 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 09 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Master by Colm Toibin ISBN: 0743250400 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans ISBN: 1594200041 Publisher: The Penguin Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis ISBN: 0674011740 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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