Yes, and also enjoyed the miniseries with Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.

Agreed completely about John Grisham. When he got so popular (and rich) he started mailing it in. Maybe you stuck with him longer than I did with so many of his books set in Memphis.

>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....
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>>>>>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?