e99 Online Shopping Mall

Geometry.Net - the online learning center Help  
Home  - Celebrities - Connelly Jennifer (Books)

  Back | 41-44 of 44
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z  

click price to see details     click image to enlarge     click link to go to the store

41. Farewell to the Master
$14.13
42. Brazilians of Irish Descent: Jennifer
$3.57
43. The Lincoln Lawyer
 
44.

41. Farewell to the Master
by Harry Bates
Kindle Edition: Pages (2009-07-21)
list price: US$0.99
Asin: B002IKLGXA
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan
Editorial Review

Product Description
The original tale of the tragic visit to Earth by Klaatu, an emissary from space.Adapted into the 1951 film, “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

3-0 out of 5 stars Nothing like either movie.
Short easy read. But don't be disappointed when you find out it's nothing like either
the older or latest movie.

The ending is completely different. A bit of an overused "trick".
This type of ending, has been used successfully on the old Twilight Zone and Outer limits several times
but now seems "dated".(Beingwritten in 1940 I believe.)

First time I've read a book where the movie seem to offer more than the original book.

Hey it's short. It's fast and easy to read. Just nothing like movie.

I read it because the orginal movie had such an affect on me as a child.
(I build robots and new electronic concepts for a living.) ... Read more


42. Brazilians of Irish Descent: Jennifer O'neill, Glenn Mcmillan, Ana Paula Connelly
Paperback: 20 Pages (2010-09-15)
list price: US$14.14 -- used & new: US$14.13
(price subject to change: see help)
Asin: 1158526857
Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan
Editorial Review

Product Description
Chapters: Jennifer O'neill, Glenn Mcmillan, Ana Paula Connelly. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jennifer O'Neill (born February 20, 1948) is an American actress and author. O'Neill was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the daughter of a Spanish-Irish businessman and his English wife. As a teenager, O'Neill worked as a fashion model and appeared in television commercials and on magazine covers before moving to films. In 1968 she landed a small role in For Love of Ivy. In 1970 she played one of the lead female roles in Rio Lobo starring John Wayne. After her success in Summer of '42 in 1971, in which she plays the young widow of a soldier killed in World War II, O'Neill became a well-known Hollywood actress and continued acting for the next two decades, including singing in the Chrysler Corporation commercial "Change in Charger" that represented the end of the Dodge Charger in 1975. She played the part of the mistress, Teresa Raffo, in Luchino Visconti's final film, L'Innocente (1976). She had more success in TV movies, including Love's Savage Fury. In 1982, O'Neill starred in the short-lived NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence. In 1984, she played the lead female role on the CBS television series Cover Up; the lead male actor, Jon-Erik Hexum, was killed in the studio playing with a blank (cartridge consisting of a case, primer, and propellant, but no bullet), and the series ended after just one season (with Antony Hamilton as the new male lead). A self-described "romantic," O'Neill has been married and divorced nine times. She has a daughter by her first husband and two sons from later marriages. A lifelong competitive horseback rider, she has suffered serious back injuries due to falls. On October 23 1982, O'Neill accidentally shot herself in ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=325487 ... Read more


43. The Lincoln Lawyer
by Michael Connelly
Paperback: 432 Pages (2008-09-16)
list price: US$13.99 -- used & new: US$3.57
(price subject to change: see help)
Asin: 0446541133
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan
Editorial Review

Product Description
This #1 bestselling legal thriller from Michael Connelly is a stunning display of novelistic mastery - as human, as gripping, and as whiplash-surprising as any novel yet from the writer Publishers Weekly has called "today's Dostoevsky of crime literature."

Mickey Haller is a Lincoln Lawyer, a criminal defense attorney who operates out of the backseat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between the far-flung courthouses of Los Angeles to defend clients of every kind. Bikers, con artists, drunk drivers, drug dealers - they're all on Mickey Haller's client list. For him, the law is rarely about guilt or innocence, it's about negotiation and manipulation. Sometimes it's even about justice.

A Beverly Hills playboy arrested for attacking a woman he picked up in a bar chooses Haller to defend him, and Mickey has his first high-paying client in years. It is a defense attorney's dream, what they call a franchise case. And as the evidence stacks up, Haller comes to believe this may be the easiest case of his career.Then someone close to him is murdered and Haller discovers that his search for innocence has brought him face-to-face with evil as pure as a flame. To escape without being burned, he must deploy every tactic, feint, and instinct in his arsenal - this time to save his own life.Amazon.com Review
Best-selling author Michael Connelly, whose character-driven literary mysteries have earned him a wide following, breaks from the gate in the over-crowded field of legal thrillers and leaves every other contender from Grisham to Turow in the dust with this tightly plotted, brilliantly paced, impossible-to-put-down novel.

Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller's father was a legendary lawyer whose clients included gangster Mickey Cohen (in a nice twist, Cohen's gun, given to Dad then bequeathed to his son, plays a key role in the plot). But Dad also passed on an important piece of advice that's especially relevant when Mickey takes the case of a wealthy Los Angeles realtor accused of attempted murder:"The scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you [screw] up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life."

Louis Roulet, Mickey's "franchise client" (so-called becaue he's able and willing to pay whatever his defense costs) seems to be the one his father warned him against, as well as being a few rungs higher on the socio-economic ladder than the drug dealers, homeboys, and motorcycle thugs who comprise Mickey's regular case load. But as the holes in Roulet's story tear Mickey's theory of the case to shreds, his thoughts turn more to Jesus Menendez, a former client convicted of a similar crime who's now languishing in San Quentin. Connelly tellingly delineates the code of legal ethics Mickey lives by: "It didn't matter...whether the defendant 'did it' or not. What mattered was the evidence against him--the proof--and if and how it could be neutralized. My job was to bury the proof, to color the proof a shade of gray. Gray was the color of reasonable doubt." But by the time his client goes to trial, Mickey's feeling a few very reasonable doubts of his own.

While Mickey's courtroom pyrotechnics dazzle, his behind-the-scenes machinations and manipulations are even more incendiary in this taut, gripping novel, which showcases all of Connelly's literary gifts. There's not an excess sentence or padded paragraph in it--what there is, happily, is a character who, like Harry Bosch, deserves a franchise series of his own. --Jane Adams ... Read more

Customer Reviews (334)

5-0 out of 5 stars Roller Coaster of Excitement
This book is a proverbial California roller coaster of excitement. We get to ride in the front seat with Michael Haller aka Mickey. He is a Los Angeles defense lawyer who uses his car to double as an office. This sweet ride has phone, fax, e-mail and a personalized license plate.

Mickey's colorful clients are not always lawful citizens, but they pay and he gets to pay his bills. We like Mickey, because he reminds us that everyone has flaws. He has two ex-wives, a kid and he fraternizes with motorcycle gang members. However he does take on pro-bono cases and has his second ex-wife working for him.

When Mickey is handed an easy case packaged with a young, rich client (Louis Roulet), he snatches it up. Eventually the big money, easy case turns out to be more than Mickey had bargained for.

As the plot takes unexpected turns, I found myself unable to part with Mickey. I look forward to Connelly's next thrill ride with Mickey driving.

1-0 out of 5 stars I couldn't get past the premise
This was my first Michael Connelly book, and I bought it based on the very positive reviews.I just couldn't get past the basic premise that paints a defense lawyer from a jaded cop's perspective.I've known hundreds of defense lawyers, a few of them pretty sleazy, but no one's really like the protagonist of this book.It's such a false stereotype.I kept on trying to get past it, but just couldn't.A big disappointment for my first attempt at Connelly.For what it's worth, I've never been inspired to write a review before, + or -, but had to express my opinion about this book.

5-0 out of 5 stars A totally great read!
Michael Conelly is one of my favorite authors and Lincoln Lawyer is a joy to read.

Brilliant!

5-0 out of 5 stars JUICY MYSTERY
Actually I'm saving this for my summer read and really looking forward to it. I believe there's a movie in preproduction as we speak.Like Connelly's work - gruesome and funny, interesting and fun.

3-0 out of 5 stars Summer reading fast food
We all know this writer. So don't need to go on about him. Tell you why I got this. Back in England I love to keep my foot in the States by reading the New Yorker. There was an article about the IPad, and also Amazon's version of the same, and the writer was talking about what he loves to read on these screens (give me a real book any day... I love the feel of the paper!), and he mentioned this book as something he "breezed" through. I like books I can breeze through. And yes, you are immediately grabbed. It reminds me of those perpetually moving seats on a ride at Disneyland. You sort of go on a moving floor that takes you at the same speed as the moving seats, and them jump in and you're off, with nothing stopping you. That's how his books read. This one was really fun, since he talks a great deal about Hollywood and what is called in the States as "the Valley" (my daughter used to say she was a "Valley Girl!"). It has that, "oh no... what did I get myself into" kind of feel. Bad part, it's very predicable. You know who is going to get killed, who is going to get double-crossed, who the bad guys and gals are. Once he sets something up, you sort of wait for the "twist", and then... there it comes. Like ordering something strange at a sushi bar. It may surprise you when the wiggling tentacles of Tako comes to your table, but you don't scream or anything, since you were expecting it all along. But is that a bad thing? I mean, while you are waiting for the big finish, it's fun to read. You like the characters. Come on. Fast food can be great. Especially when eating it alone while driving down the road with your favorite CD blasting away. ... Read more


44.
 

Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan

  Back | 41-44 of 44
A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I  J  K  L  M  N  O  P  Q  R  S  T  U  V  W  X  Y  Z  

Prices listed on this site are subject to change without notice.
Questions on ordering or shipping? click here for help.

site stats