An International Best Seller

Advantages: Extrremely interesting and gripping
Disadvantages: none

...I confess that I am a great fan of Frederick Forsythe, and Odessa File is one of his best books among a long list of bestsellers..He has an impressive list of novels to his credit "The Day of the Jackal ' was his first full length novel and an international best seller, which was also made into a very successful film with Edward Fox playing the lead.. Odessa File was his second novel.. The Odessa File is set in West Germany in 1963, a period where many Germans just wanted to forget the past and move on, but pursuit of former SS members; particularly those involved in the Haulocast; was still active... It is essentially the story of Peter Miller, played by John Voight, a German free lance crime reporter in Hamburg, Germany, who accidentally stumbles on to nazi classified information, that threatens his very existence, and a potential...

kiran8 28.07.2008 (13.04.2009) · Read review
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Will the real Peter Sellers please stand up?

Advantages: Superb acting by Geoffrey Rush
Disadvantages: Sellers' apparent 'non-personality'

...Having just paid my TV licence, I've become much more aware of the time I spend watching the BBC channels recently. Frankly, it's not a whole lot. But occasionally they do have some excellent programmes on, one of which was this film, albeit hidden away rather late on a Saturday night on BBC 2. The mention of Peter Sellers' name transports me instantly back to my childhood and evenings in with my mum watching The Pink Panther. I've never known a great deal about his private life, however, so the opportunity to watch this film, starring Geoffrey Rush, one of the best actors of our time in my opinion was much welcomed. The story The film starts at the beginning of Sellers' television career, when he moved from radio to The Goons. At the time, Peter is married to his first wife, Anne, with whom he has two children. It is immediately...

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Intricate Best seller..

Advantages: Keeps you on edge from start to finish
Disadvantages: none

.....The documents find their way to M15 and the chase begins to find the traitor..There are Russian agents involved and the KGB plotting to set off a bomb near the united states Naval base in England,so that the British get to blame America, and amidst all this ,is the traitor who is pulling threads , manipulating,controlling and killing...M15 officer John Preston investigating the matter has not only to deal with double agents, KGB and the Russian secret agents, but the dangerous enemy within...the Traitor... Extremely interesting plot, keeps you on the edge all the time. It has been made into a successful film(1987), had a star cast of Michael caine, Pierce Bronson,Joanna cassidy and others..It got a nomination under The Best Film category... I have read most of Frederick Forsyth's books and each one of them has a different plot and the action...

kiran8 29.07.2008 · Read review
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AMAZON THE BEST SELLER ON THE NET

Advantages: Many products at good prices
Disadvantages: Only Books, CD's, Software and DVD's

...Amazon.co.uk is a site worthy site of any internet consumer who wishes to get the best buys from a reliable, well known service at a good price. Amazon.co.uk is relatively new site compared to some of the other web sites on the net and was released to the UK recently after the very successful company decided to branch there sales to just the UK. Amazon.com was always a very successful site so the idea of bringing the site to the UK has also proved to be very successful and is worthy of being labelled a great site! In this opinion, I would like to outline some of the main advantages of this site and all the options you have with this site. As you most likely already know, Amazon is a world-wide seller of Books, CD’s, DVD’s and Music and each of them have there own advantages over other similar sites. ******** Choice...

MByford 15.02.2001 · Read review
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The Best of Bryan Adams

Advantages: Contains 15 great tracks
Disadvantages: None

...'The Best of Me' by Bryan Adams I purchased my Bryan Adams The Best of Me album about 8 months ago. This album contains great songs. The Tracks 1. The Best Of Me 'When you want it, when you need it, you'll always get the best of me.' This opening track is nice with its great melody, good rendition of acoustic guitar and Bryan's husky voice. 2. Can't Stop This Thing We Started 'I aint superman and I can't fly, but if you wanna stop me baby , don't even try.' This track comes in rock style and Adams delivers it with unique style as he goes speechy and sexy with this song. 3 . I'm Ready 'I'm ready to love you, I'm ready to hold you.' This is a very romantic mellow song. Bryan goes in slow tempo with this track with brilliant lyrics. 4. Summer of '69 'And if I had the choice, yeah, I'd always...

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The Holiday Guide Of How To Write A Best Seller

Advantages: Easy to read style suitable for holidays
Disadvantages: Lacks a good plot and has a predictable ending

...You know, I reckon it's pretty easy really - this writing a best seller lark. I might well have a go myself, now that I've sussed out how it's done. The extra money would come in useful. I could buy a few properties as investments and stock up on Cosabella thongs. I don't foresee any problems or difficulties. "What about a good plot?" Oh dear, trust someone to be negative, but a plot isn't a problem. I mean, let's look at Erica James's book The Holiday, as an example, and you'll see how simple this writing business is. All you need is a bit of a standard story line such as girl falls in love with bloke, and bloke with girl, and they end up happy ever after. Ahhhh! The only slight difficulty might be that you've got to fill about 500 pages but, not to worry, I've found the answer ... It was last night. I became very...

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SIMPLY THE BEST?

Advantages: Easily readable, light, non-intellectual, aimed at the more mature woman
Disadvantages: A tad old fashioned, but perhaps I am too?

...Yes, I?ll admit it! I?ve been reading rather a lot of magazines lately. Mainly by virtue of the fact that I went to Scotland for a week in August and travelled by train. It?s a five hour journey and whilst I can quite easily get my head stuck into a good book for such a duration, I do find that the density of the text combined with the motion of the train, makes me feel sick after a while. So, magazines, with their colours and layouts make a good alternative. That?s my excuse anyway. One of the magazines that I picked up was ?best?. Whilst doing a little research for this review, I was surprised to discover that this publication has been around since 1987. Apparently, it is aimed at female readers between the ages of 25-55, but has a median reader age of 40. Heh, that?s me! Certainly, as I flicked through it I was pleasantly...

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Charged with being an ECW best seller

Advantages: Good representation of ECW in 1999
Disadvantages: Not awesome matches on the tape.

...Firstly let me explain what and who ECW are. They were a pro wrestling federation that ran up until 2001. The intials ECW stood for Extreme Championship Wrestling, they were based in Philidelphia and were ran by Paul Heyman (who is now GM on Smackdown at time of writing). They revoultinised the busisness by introducing the market to hardcore wrestling, which WWF repackaged for themselves as "attitude". They often honed talent, and were a step in the door for many WWE talent today such as Chris Jericho, RVD, Lance Storm, Taz and many more. However ECW often had better matches than any other promotion around, and soon ECW was the place to watch with its constant violent and real matches, or its super athletic bouts. Here is a review of one of their best selling events, Guilty As Charged 1999. It is certificate 18, and was released by...

ukedge87 10.03.2004 · Read review
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Peter Sellers - The life and Death of

Advantages: Good performances, interesting style
Disadvantages: Not good if you are looking for comedy!

...As a great fan of Peter Sellers and having many of his films in my collection, when this film came out I thought it was a must see as far as I was concerned. It presented a side of Sellers which I had never considered, having seen him as purely man of comedy a role he portrayed himself as being so well in public. The film manages to cover most of his life and starts by introducing you to one of his strongest relationships, that beween him and his mother - which runs throughout the film, it touches on the history of the family - how his mother had been on the stage herself and how he had been encouraged in this area from an early age. It then goes on to show how Sellars firstly known for his hilarious roles in the Goon show wanted to build on his newly found fame and make it into the movies, struggling to get roles purely because he...

martin2048 20.10.2004 · Read review
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"Best" isn't brilliant

Advantages: Not too hard for the brain
Disadvantages: Much of a muchness, same style as Bella, Woman etc.

...I was wandering into the local sainsbury's petrol station and studying the mags, knowing I didn't want to add too much onto my bill, I decided to buy Best Magazine. I bought issue 23/05 with date 14th June 2005 on the cover. At 70 pence and with the chance to win a trip to Paris, I just had to buy it. You can buy this on every newsagent's stand and every forecourt. It's as common as The Daily Mirror however I don't think you can take a subscription out on this, so you have to make that trip out each Friday. I used to buy Best regularly when it was just an unbelievably low 40 pence and it was fatter. Now its become skinny and I've spread out! I was surprised to find its only 67 pages long, it used to be a whopping 98 pages. So I don't mind if they condense the magazine but how can the publishers justify putting the price up...

mrsmopples 16.06.2005 · Read review
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