The Road to Gandolfo

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Summary: What a HOOT!
Review: This book will have you rolling off the couch! What a premise! It's Ludlum before he took himself too seriously.

Rating:
Summary: What a HOOT!
Review: This book will have you rolling off the couch! What a premise! It's Ludlum before he took himself too seriously.

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Summary: Not very funny or very good
Review: This is Ludlums attempt at writing a comedy. It isn't very funny or entertaining. These two characters go through a series of adventures that aren't interesting. The big running joke is that one character can never get anything to eat. How funny is that? There is also an embarrassing, juvenile storyline about one of the characters prowess with women and his beautiful wives. It is like a low class Matt Helm story (which is already at rock bottom). Ludlum is good at creating a superspy and writing action sequences. That could easily be twisted in a funny, entertaining way. But Ludlum does not leverage his strenghts here.

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Summary: Very unusual but enjoyable
Review: This isn't the best novel I have ever read in this genre, but it's worth reading. It was funny and irreverent... check it out.

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Summary: A good beggining
Review: This was the first Ludlum book I read. While the storyline is very good and orignal, something about it just doesnt let it run so smoothly. I enjoyed the plot,espically about how all the wives wanted to...well if I tell you that you wont want to read the book. It goes, but slowly.

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Summary: Don't try to predict
Review: Throughout the book I made the mistake of trying to foretell what was to come and I was wrong everytime.The hero and the villain roles are played by one person whom everyone seems to love to hate.The first Ludlum book I've read and I can't wait for the next one.

Rating:
Summary: Don't try to predict
Review: Throughout the book I made the mistake of trying to foretell what was to come and I was wrong everytime.The hero and the villain roles are played by one person whom everyone seems to love to hate.The first Ludlum book I've read and I can't wait for the next one.

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Summary: Plot-wise - different and enjoyable
Review: Who would ever ever think of kidnapping the Pope just for the challenge? One answer: Robert Ludlum. Not that he did it in real life, but through 'The Hawk', he certainly did, and did it great too. I thought the plot was really original...Bravo!