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These creations by Doyle represent the finest work of his Holmes series, and certainly the most famous. They are reproduced here (and in all volumes) in the order in which they were first published.]]> 28 Arthur Conan Doyle Beergeek 5 4.41 1914
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average rating: 4.41
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]]> 20403024 400 Ian Manook 2226251944 Beergeek 1 currently-reading 3.90 2013
author: Ian Manook
name: Beergeek
average rating: 3.90
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Usually, it takes me two-five days to finish the reading of a book. I am reading this one from one month ago and no way of finishing it. It's very difficult for me to say what's the worst in this book, but probably the characters (ALL of them hateful, you are constantly wishing that somebody kill them all) and the dialogues, which oscillate between shameful and ridiculous ("We are policemen!!": really, Mr. Manook????). The gallery mixes Mongolian nazis (!!!), warrior monks, a forensic who lives in a airport-sized tent in the middle of the town and a Turkish gangster, all of them in a hodgepodge of Chinese spies, corrupt policemen and a biker gang, seasoned with visions, dreams and folklore. Currently, I'm chilling a 100 USD champagne bottle to uncork when I finished this piece of nonsense, and I'm going to ask my family to promise me that, if I had any trace of reading something from this author in the next thirty years, they will shoot me. By far, the worst book I've read this year (and probably, in this decade): Absolutely demented.
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Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars--the money Roy makes from his short cons, his "grifting." For years, Roy has effortlessly maintained control over his house-of-cards life--until the simplest con goes wrong, and he finds himself critically injured and at the mercy of the most dangerous woman he ever met: his own mother.

THE GRIFTERS, one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, is an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for Stephen Frears' and Martin Scorsese's 1990 critically-acclaimed film of the same name.]]> 224 Jim Thompson 0316404055 Beergeek 5 3.88 1963
author: Jim Thompson
name: Beergeek
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1963
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]]> 56616 Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches. First published in 1935, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.

Walter Huff was an insurance salesman with an unfailing instinct for clients who might be in trouble, and his instinct led him to Phyllis Nirdlinger. Phyllis wanted to buy an accident policy on her husband. Then she wanted her husband to have an accident. Walter wanted Phyllis. To get her, he would arrange the perfect murder and betray everything he had ever lived for.]]> 115 James M. Cain 0679723226 Beergeek 4 4.07 1936
author: James M. Cain
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average rating: 4.07
book published: 1936
rating: 4
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]]> 36058 472 James Ellroy 0099366614 Beergeek 3 4.09 1988
author: James Ellroy
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average rating: 4.09
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The tenth clew.--The golden horseshoe.--The house in Turk Street.--The girl with the silver eyes.--The whosis kid.--The main death.--The farewell murder.]]> 288 Dashiell Hammett 0752856170 Beergeek 5 4.17 1930
author: Dashiell Hammett
name: Beergeek
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1930
rating: 5
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Librarian's note: this is an alternate cover edition.]]> 231 Raymond Chandler 0394758285 Beergeek 5 3.96 1939
author: Raymond Chandler
name: Beergeek
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1939
rating: 5
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A devastating new weapon of destruction.
When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- he discovers evidence of the unimaginable: the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the Illuminati...the most powerful underground organization ever to walk the earth. The Illuminati has now surfaced to carry out the final phase of its legendary vendetta against its most hated enemy -- the Catholic Church.

Langdon's worst fears are confirmed on the eve of the Vatican's holy conclave, when a messenger of the Illuminati announces they have hidden an unstoppable time bomb at the very heart of Vatican City. With the countdown under way, Langdon jets to Rome to join forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to assist the Vatican in a desperate bid for survival.
Embarking on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and even the most secretive vault on earth, Langdon and Vetra follow a 400-year-old trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome toward the long-forgotten Illuminati lair...a clandestine location that contains the only hope for Vatican salvation.

An explosive international thriller, Angels & Demons careens from enlightening epiphanies to dark truths as the battle between science and religion turns to war.]]> 736 Dan Brown 1416524797 Beergeek 1 3.95 2000
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name: Beergeek
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2000
rating: 1
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An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.]]> 480 Stieg Larsson 0670069019 Beergeek 2 4.17 2005
author: Stieg Larsson
name: Beergeek
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2005
rating: 2
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