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The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 2: One Lonely Night, The Big Kill, Kiss Me Deadly
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-03-27 Summary: old timer does the trick ... When I was young, I loved Mike Hammer. It was nostalgia to re-read the yarns. It might give the new generation laughs as there were no computers, cell-phones or caller id's. The forensic department was a joke. The detective actually had to use the brain. Womanizing and boozing, eating bloody steaks and blowing low-lives away without going to jail was the thing to do. I still get a kick out of it. ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-02-20 Summary: Memory lane part 2 ... This book, like volume one is a wonderful trip down memory lane of the 1950's. Even if you were born much later, it is a great look back at a time when everyone smoked, cars had start buttons, and women were dames. Also missing is all the cuss words in all the books and movies of today. ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-12-13 Summary: THERE SPILANE AND THEN THE REST. ... IF YOU WANT THE BEST IN PI. MYSTERIES ITS SPILLANE AND NOONE ELSE. GET VOL. ONE AND VOLUME TWO.EVEN HIS LESSER HAMMER BOOKS SURPASSES THE OTHER WRITERS CHARACTERS LIKE ROSS MCDONALD , JOHN D. MACDONALD AND THE LESSER WRITERS. AND LETS NOT MENTION THE SO CALLED NEW BREED OF WRITER. ONLY PARKER IS HALF WAY SKILLED. MOST PI. MYSTERIES ARE NOT TRUE TO LIFE BUT SPILLANE WAS NEW YORK CITY AND THE TIMES OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES.FOR SOME REASON HE TOOK A SABBATICAL AND CAME BACK TO HAMMER AND WHILE IT WASNT AS GOOD AS HIS ...more
[4] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-06-07 Summary: Great reading ... Fine writing by a fine author. Pictures appeared in my mind with his use of words and always enjoyed each story. No one else like Spillane - not ever. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | "There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate." ( The New York Times ) Apparently. With his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to superstardom as one of the most notorious bestselling sensations in publishing history. This powerhouse collection includes three of the master's long-out-of-print greatest novels-together for the first time in one explosive volume: The Big Kill One Lonely Night Kiss Me, Deadly Includes a special...more
The Mike Hammer Collection, Volume 2: One Lonely Night, The Big Kill, Kiss Me Deadly
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-03-27 Summary: old timer does the trick ... When I was young, I loved Mike Hammer. It was nostalgia to re-read the yarns. It might give the new generation laughs as there were no computers, cell-phones or caller id's. The forensic department was a joke. The detective actually had to use the brain. Womanizing and boozing, eating bloody steaks and blowing low-lives away without going to jail was the thing to do. I still get a kick out of it. ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-02-20 Summary: Memory lane part 2 ... This book, like volume one is a wonderful trip down memory lane of the 1950's. Even if you were born much later, it is a great look back at a time when everyone smoked, cars had start buttons, and women were dames. Also missing is all the cuss words in all the books and movies of today. ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-12-13 Summary: THERE SPILANE AND THEN THE REST. ... IF YOU WANT THE BEST IN PI. MYSTERIES ITS SPILLANE AND NOONE ELSE. GET VOL. ONE AND VOLUME TWO.EVEN HIS LESSER HAMMER BOOKS SURPASSES THE OTHER WRITERS CHARACTERS LIKE ROSS MCDONALD , JOHN D. MACDONALD AND THE LESSER WRITERS. AND LETS NOT MENTION THE SO CALLED NEW BREED OF WRITER. ONLY PARKER IS HALF WAY SKILLED. MOST PI. MYSTERIES ARE NOT TRUE TO LIFE BUT SPILLANE WAS NEW YORK CITY AND THE TIMES OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES.FOR SOME REASON HE TOOK A SABBATICAL AND CAME BACK TO HAMMER AND WHILE IT WASNT AS GOOD AS HIS ...more
[4] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-06-07 Summary: Great reading ... Fine writing by a fine author. Pictures appeared in my mind with his use of words and always enjoyed each story. No one else like Spillane - not ever. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | "There's a kind of power about Mickey Spillane that no other writer can imitate." ( The New York Times ) Apparently. With his trend-setting Mike Hammer detective novels, Mickey Spillane shot to superstardom as one of the most notorious bestselling sensations in publishing history. This powerhouse collection includes three of the master's long-out-of-print greatest novels-together for the first time in one explosive volume: The Big Kill One Lonely Night Kiss Me, Deadly Includes a special...more
The Hammer Story
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2009-10-18 Summary: Excellent Overview ... I am not normally a fan of "coffee table" books. But, in this case, I am happy to make an exception. In this large volume, the editors essentially try to tell the story of Hammer Studios, the movie production company that went from obscurity to legend in the genre of horror and suspense. It is, as other reviews quite correctly point out, not complete, so it cannot be called a full history. But, I still give it five stars for superb editing, superior physical construction and layout, and the synposes of most of Hammer's ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2008-11-18 Summary: The Haunted House That Hammer Built ... Alan Barnes and Marcus Hearn's THE HAMMER STORY is an exhaustive historical study of the horror films produced by Britain's Hammer Studios from the 1950s to the 1970s. For each film, the book offers a story synopsis, production history, and a discussion of critical and popular reaction. Also, the book includes a short history of the studio itself and information on those who helmed and shaped it over the years, and short biographies of some of the stars, screenwriters, and directors of various films are scattered throughout. ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2008-07-21 Summary: Stylish Yet Incomplete Survey of Hammer ... First off, Titan Books should be commended for producing a very attractive, informative volume with lots of great photos concerning the history of Hammer Studios. The key films are discussed in depth, usually with two pages devoted to behind-the-scenes info regarding all your favorites. My one quibble would be with what the book isn't -- this is not a comprehensive survey of Hammer's entire output. The b&w thrillers are glossed over as are the comedies, the swashbucklers and the forgotten noirs. All well and good if ...more
[4] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-06-27 Summary: Long, Live Hammer Films ... This book has everything you would want to know about Hammer Studios, great artwork, wonderful summaries and much more. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Fifty years ago, Hammer Films released The Curse of Frankenstein. The now-legendary British company went on to make such classics as Dracula (and its many sequels), making international stars out of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, changing the face of horror cinema, and inspiring a generation of Hollywood filmmakers, including George Lucas, Martin Scorsese and Tim Burton. Now, for the first time, Hammer have given their active backing to an authorised history of the company, and have...more
Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-07-10 Summary: The Ultimate Gamesman ... This is a fascinating story. I had read several of the lukewarm, pseudo-politically-correct news releases that were 'approved' by Hammer himself over the years, which is why I decided to look at this book. Once I picked it up, I could hardly put it down! This is the most amazing real-life story. It just goes to show that, in our culture, image is everything. The things that Hammer got away with will shock any well-read reader. The book reads like a thriller spy novel. Hammer was a master at his craft. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2010-06-02 Summary: Eye opener regarding our citizens and how it has affected our history. ... Condsidering everything that is going on in the country today, I recommend reading this book. ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2007-05-22 Summary: Marxism is a de luxe product ... This book is a biography about an american oil mogul:Armand Hammer.The author is a jew, as the biographed. If you read this book, you will see a true:marxism(leftism, eugenicism, environmentalism, feminism, etc.) is something for millionaries. Hammer got a fortune linking to former Soviet Union's interests.Then he went to oil business.Again he linked his oil business to Lybia, even to Khadafy money. Defects of this book are small.I don't believe ,that Al Gore had school's payment from Hammer.Another problem,of this ...more
[4] Rating: 4 Date: 2006-04-20 Summary: If only he had done the opposite ... Mr. Epstein places a great work on to the life of Armand Hammer. Many individuals wonder how such a man, whom was red flagged by the CIA, could remain connected to each and every Presidential administration and Kremlin since the days of Lenin. I was hoping for more information on their dealings with Robert Maxwell but it was only mentioned in brief. Hammer, like is father, presented to the public as immensely wealthy and powerful individuals, yet reality had dictated the opposite. Hammer, a man in quest for power, ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | When Armand Hammer died at the age of 92, he was chairman of the Occidental Petroleum Company, lauded for his financial support of cancer research and for his art collection. But behind the facade of respectability lay a lifetime of fraud, both personal and professional. Now, the bestselling author of The Assassination Chronicles reveals the true story of this manipulative and corrupt man. of photos....more
[2] ... Review | It comes as little surprise that Armand Hammer, the chairman and tyrant of Occidental Petroleum who molded himself into a modern Medici, was a philanderer, a sycophant to American Presidents and Soviet leaders alike, and an avid art collector who cared not a fig for art. The surprises in this absorbing biography by Edward Jay Epstein, with Armand Hammer, come from long-buried sources: that Hammer financed Soviet espionage in the United States, that he forced his long-time mistress to change her appearance...more
The Complete Hammer's Slammers: Vol. 3
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This Omni-Trade paperback volume collects the two full-length novels, The Sharp End and Paying the Piper , plus “The Darkness,” a novelette which has not appeared in previous Slammers books. The Hammers are very flawed and imperfect human beings—but they know their jobs, and they get those jobs done, one way or another. If your nation or your planet is under attack, and you want plaster saints to save the day . . . well, lots of luck,...more
The Hammer of Eden
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2009-01-15 Summary: excellent - suspenseful ... I had purchased this audio book at my local library. One of the cassettes was missing. I scrambled to find a 'whole book' - It was suspenseful. There was alot of geological accuracies that pleased me. And the story line I thought was compelling. This is the book that got me started reading anything I could find by Ken Follett. ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2008-10-14 Summary: Good Read ... This book might have plot holes but it is page turning and really gets you into the lives of the characters. I have fun reading this story. It is not Follett's best novel but it is good. ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-01-03 Summary: Ken Follett - hammer of Eden ... A very interesting, and quite novel, approach to mystery writing. Ken Follet is one of my favorite authors who never fails to create interesting characters, establish great tension and suspense, and leave you with a few surprises. This was a very interesting read. ...more
Editorial Reviews — [1] ... Product Description | The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem to disappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: an extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For California, time is running out. Now Maddox is scrambling to hunt down a petty criminal turned cult leader turned homicidal mastermind. Because Judy knows that the dying has already begun. And soon, the earth will violently shift, bolt, and shake...more
[2] ... Review | The tension ratchets up quickly in this abridged reading of Ken Follett's thriller. Actor Anthony Heald--a movie ( The Client , The Silence of the Lambs ) and audiobook ( Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ) veteran--uses a breathy, urgent delivery to spin the tale of ecoterrorist cultists and the unlikely heroes who must stop them before they hammer California with a major man-made earthquake. Follett has real contempt for his aging-hippie villains, which Heald gleefully communicates through...more