Did you ever read Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry? I used to like John Grisham's books, until it seemed he was using a cookie cutter to write them. I mostly read technical stuff these days....

>>>>The Bourne films are that rare thing. Better than the book. I read a couple of Ludlum books after people here where recommending them and I thought they where c___p
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>>>We are on the same page.
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>>>FWIW my favorite is Graham Greene. He wrote beautifully without overdoing it and depicted moral ambiguity in a way I like. There was even a word given to the world he described -- Greeneland.
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>>>Oddly enough, probably the most famous line from the many movies made from his novels was not from the book but ad-libbed by Orson Welles -- the bit in "The Third Man" about cuckoo clocks.
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>>I like Graham Greene too.
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>>This is a good spy movie
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>>http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059749/
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>>The spy who came in from the cold.
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>I have the Criterion edition but have not watched it yet. Just made a note to bring it back here next week.
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>Can I safely assume we both like John LeCarre?