The Firm - John Grisham
Mon ami Novice:The movie to "The Day of the Jackal" is superb, one of the best interpretations of book to movie I have seen.
I fell in love with Forsyth after reading The Day of the Jackal and quickly devoured every book of his I could find. Unfortunately, most didn't live up to DOTJ, but I enjoyed them all nonetheless. Have fun!Now, I'm reading a three (3), novel set "The Day of the Jackal", "The Odessa File" and "The Dogs of war" by Frederick Forsyth to include viewing the later films!
[FONT=&]In "The Day of the Jackal", the Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS...a well known violent anti-Gaullist group), hires an assassin (a GQ Englishmen), to kill then-French President General Charles de Gaulle (who had survived six [6] prior attempts...and to later pass away content and at peace with his destiny in tact at his home with family[/FONT]).
[FONT=&]In "The Odessa File", a reporter attempts to track down an ex-Nazi SS officer in modern Germany. The reporter discovers him via the diary of a Jewish Holocaust survivor who committed suicide earlier, but he is being shielded by an organization that protects ex-Nazis, called [/FONT][FONT=&]ODESSA[/FONT][FONT=&].
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[FONT=&]In "The Dogs of War", a British mining executive hires a group of mercenaries to overthrow the government of an African country so that he can install a puppet regime that will allow him cheap access to a colossal platinum-ore reserve.[/FONT]
Read More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Forsyth
[FONT=&]“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” Dr. Seuss[/FONT]
Fitzgerald really did write like an angel, didn't he? it has been a while since I have even flipped through Gatsby, but I am guessing that it is a book that holds up. One of those books I first read in high school, which is a much richer read after being alive for a somewhat longer period of time.
I'm back in the classics. I don't know how I never read the Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the greatest books I ever read. Currently reading 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea on my kindle.
Fitzgerald really did write like an angel, didn't he? it has been a while since I have even flipped through Gatsby, but I am guessing that it is a book that holds up. One of those books I first read in high school, which is a much richer read after being alive for a somewhat longer period of time.
What do you think of 20,000 Leagues? I remember a friend of mine read it and said he liked the story itself, but the book was bogged down and turned almost boring with endless descriptions of sea life and such. Didn't sound appealing after that, so I'm curious
What do you think of 20,000 Leagues? I remember a friend of mine read it and said he liked the story itself, but the book was bogged down and turned almost boring with endless descriptions of sea life and such. Didn't sound appealing after that, so I'm curious
What do you think of 20,000 Leagues? I remember a friend of mine read it and said he liked the story itself, but the book was bogged down and turned almost boring with endless descriptions of sea life and such. Didn't sound appealing after that, so I'm curious
I enjoy that kind of stuff too. It can get kind of boring at times, but it really helps paint a picture for you. In the case of Moby Dick, a lot of the boring stuff was procedural, i.e. "This is how whaling works." You learn stuff. Maybe not anything relevant to your life, but one of my favorite authors said it best: "All knowledge is worth having." Until I read Moby Dick I never knew that harpoons weren't actually used to kill whales.Moby Dick had a lot of that, but I enjoyed it because it painted a picture of what kinds of conditions these people had to live through.