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Audition for Your Career, Not the Job: Mastering the On-camera Audition
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Review Date: 2/14/2024
Excelllent. Phillips book is very helpful.
Review Date: 7/12/2005
Crichton simply does a chase/race like few in the business. This one, plotted around an African jungle geo-expedition run amok, is no less a page-turner. It's been 3-4 years since I read this, but still in very good/near fine condition.
Review Date: 2/14/2024
Every reporter should read. A taste of what a courageous, intelligent reporter should be. Alas, none aroun anymore, from what I can tell. Brilliant pieces of historical journalism. I see where his son Alexander Cockburn got his talent.
Review Date: 7/12/2005
Anxious to regain its status as a Whitehall player, an outdated and out-of-fashion intelligence department conceives & launches a covert operation to penetrate the Iron Curtain. Unforgiving bureaucratic satire about the boys-school mentality of the secret world and its often costly games.
Review Date: 2/14/2024
Want to see what soldiers and cops genuinely think? This tells a better more acurate story than any nonfiction. Anderson is a rare talent.
Review Date: 7/12/2005
Witness John Le Carre's masterful take on Richard Onlsow "Dicky" Roper, the arms dealer we love to invite into our palace corridors through the backdoors of national security:
"Roper seemed not to hear. 'World's run by fear, you see. Can't sell pipe dreams, can't rule with charity, no good at all. Not in the real world. With me?' But he didn't wait to discover whether Jonathan was with him or not. 'Promise to build a chap a house, he won't believe you. Threaten to burn his place down, he'll do what you tell him. Fact of life.' He paused to double-mark time. 'If a bunch of chaps want to make war, they're not going to listen to a lot of wet-eared abolitionists. If they don't, doesn't matter whether they've got crossbows or Stingers. Fact of life. Sorry if it bothers you.'
"Roper seemed not to hear. 'World's run by fear, you see. Can't sell pipe dreams, can't rule with charity, no good at all. Not in the real world. With me?' But he didn't wait to discover whether Jonathan was with him or not. 'Promise to build a chap a house, he won't believe you. Threaten to burn his place down, he'll do what you tell him. Fact of life.' He paused to double-mark time. 'If a bunch of chaps want to make war, they're not going to listen to a lot of wet-eared abolitionists. If they don't, doesn't matter whether they've got crossbows or Stingers. Fact of life. Sorry if it bothers you.'
Review Date: 7/12/2005
Dedicated to Le Carre's con-man father, A PERFECT SPY is a spy-story fictionalization of how growing up the son of a con man could be the ideal education of a natural-born double-agent.
Review Date: 7/12/2005
The final book in the George Smiley trilogy, and full of the best of Smiley -- investigating a murder among London emigres, poking about in underworld Germany, and mounting a full-bore operation in Geneva on his way to a showdown with Karla. LeCarre is the literary master of the interview as drama, and Smiley's its chief practitioner.
Review Date: 2/14/2024
Among the best Vietnam war fiction. For admirers of If I Die in a Combat Zone, or Going After Cacciato (both by Tim O'Brien), or Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers. Anderson's prose is deadly hard stuff, the textual equivalent of a LRRP's thousand-yard-stare. A survivor's unapologetic tale, to be sure.
Review Date: 2/14/2024
Alex Cockburn was a treasure. Few writers today come close to his intellect and talent as a writer. And no political journalists do.
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