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Title: Notre Dame, again.(Letter to the editor)
Author: Edward M. Hogan
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2009
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 197Page: 2(5)

Article Type: Letter to the editor

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Chapters: Brian Ashton, Clive Woodward, Shaun Edwards, Martin Johnson, Don White, Andy Robinson, Daryl Powell, Joe Lydon, Mike Ford, Jim Mallinder, Dean Ryan, Les Cusworth, Phil Larder, Ivor Preece, Chalkie White, Geoff Cooke, Alex Codling, Stefan Czerpak, Stuart Lancaster, Jon Callard, John Wells, Ben Ryan, Jack Rowell, Jason Forster, David Addleton, Robert Winston, Ian Birtwell, Phil Keith-Roach, Graham Dawe, Toby Booth, Tosh Askew, J. A. Cuddon, Mike Friday. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 108. 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: William Brian Ashton MBE (born 3 September 1946 in Leigh, Lancashire) is a former rugby union player and the former Head Coach of the England national rugby union team. Ashton was born in Leigh, Lancashire to a textile weaver mother and coal miner father Albert, who played professional rugby league on the weekends for Leigh RLFC in 1940. Bright enough to earn a place at Grammar school, he attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School - one of the few local schools to teach and play rugby union over rugby league. After leaving school, Ashton started working for Trustee Savings Bank in their international banking division. His old games master from Leigh Grammar Keith Elleray took him to Tyldesley RUFC, where Ashton played fly-half in his first season in 1965/6, before Elleray retired and Ashton took over his preferred position of scrum-half for 1966/67. Although offered professional terms by various Rugby League clubs, Ashton moved to Fylde - where his team-mates included Roger Uttley and Bill Beaumont - and then to Orrell from 1973 to be closer to his Leigh home. On finding his chances limited, he started training as a school teacher, where his first post was at Hutton Grammar School, Preston brought about by the head masters requirement to introduce rugby. As...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3608324 ... Read more

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A convenient, full-color field guide that lends itself to easy use by amateur birdwatchers and professional researchers alike
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Jack Higgins soared into the front ranks of thriller writers with his internationally acclaimed bestseller, The Eagle Has Landed.Subsequent bestsellers have sold millions of copies worldwide, establishing him as the master of suspense, intrigue, and nonstop action.Performed by Edward Woodward, Day of Judgment is equally as thrilling. ... Read more

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A PULSE-POUNDING NONSTOP THRILLER!
Jack Higgins is a reliable, workmanlike author who cranked out a score or more books like this back in the 70's and 80's. Starting with "The Eagle Has Landed" (hereafter "Eagle"), he wrote like a factory, producing a great many almost identical thrillers, only a few of which really measured up to "Eagle". This book, "Day of Judgement", is a work that, in my opinion, meassures up to, and in some waays surpasses "Eagle". Set at the height of the Cold War, "Day of Judgement's" plot focuses on an East German effort to deflect the impact of US President John F. Kennedy's forthcoming visit to Berlin, where history tells us he made his electrifying "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. The East Germans want to nullify the projected effect of Kennedy's visit, so they kidnap a beloved Roman Catholic priest and try to "brainwash" him into making anti-US statements.. Great character development, excellent pacing, a very plausable series of events and a suprisingly spiritual resolution of the story add up to an all-around great read. I recommend this book highly.

I love Jack Higgins!!
This book by Jack Higgins,(as well as the Dougal Munro series and Storm Warning)grabs your attention and doesn't let it go. Highly enjoyable, if that is your goal in fiction reading! I know JH books aren't for everyone: they are often quick on the description and huge amounts of plot fly by in a chapter, but nobody writes like him. This story, that takes place in East Germany before Kennedy visits Berlin in 1963, is a little far fetched, but I find myself preferring Higgin's books to some thrillers where if the unnecessary description were 'squeezed' out, the book would be reduced by half! I do enough fact based scientific and medical reading for my work; away from that I need escapism and JH provides this with some interesting charactors and locations. If you are obsessed with detailed fact in FICTION, then so be it. But I like the exciting, unlikely thriller plots of Higgin's.....they're more enjoyable

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Boring!
If it wasn't my tenacious nature, I couldn't have finished the book!

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As if Wilbur Smith needs help from me selling his books! Great story, great read. As all of his books, awesome!

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Tour:The Opportunities Presented
John Ashenden is a tour guide.He has a group of Americans from the West Coast.Laura Stratton, one of the guests on this rather expensive tour, dies in an Oxford Hotel.Lewis and Morse are called.The tourists are told about the Wolvercote Buckle, a significant artifact displayed at the Ashmolean.It seems that the dead womancarried a costly jewel with her that belongs with the Wolvercote Tongue.The theft of that jewel is a severe disappointment to a scholar, Theodore Kemp.The remaining plot could have been devised by a Shortz.It is intricate.The format is simple, but exciting.

Inspector Morse to the Rescue
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In this traditional British mystery a group of elderly American tourists are on a bus tour in Oxford. It turns out that the travelers have more than their share of secrets. When an accidental death and a murder occur, Inspector Morse suspects that events in the pasts of some of these tourists and their guides are playing a part in present events. (We don't learn Morse's first name until the final book in this fine series.)
Dexter's books have a sly, malicious sense of humor and much is said in a tongue in cheek fashion. Morse is a lot of fun for the reader. He's not a happy man, but he is a bright bachelor able to bounce back from adversity as long as he has his booze, his crossword puzzles, his classical music, and an infrequent roll in the hay. He is not willing to take any blame for swallowing all those red herrings put out for him and the reader.
The final unraveling of the plot is very complicated, defies common sense and is more ingenious than credible and leaves you wondering if you haven't been taken for a bus ride yourself.
As in the classic British mystery this book even has all the suspects gathered together in a meeting with the police inspector ticking off the facts of the case and pointing to the murderer. Readers will learn the title has two meanings. Inspector Morse is a brilliant detective whose bursts of insight sometimes send his investigations off in the wrong direction and sometimes lead to the arrests of innocents. Exculpatory evidence often turns up to prove that he's been too hasty. For these errors he is unapologetic and good at ignoring his mistakes. Sergeant Lewis in this Colin Dexter outing fawns over his boss a great deal and is all to ready to overlook his superior's miscues.
The book provides an interesting overview of Oxford and some of its oddities. With this mystery in hand, just hop aboard the bus, have fun, and go along for the ride. You'll have fun as long as you don't object to a supposedly logical man's logic going off track at times.

Colin Dexter's Fun if Convoluted Revision of the TelvisionMorse Episode"The Wolvercote Tongue"
This review serves the simple purpose of alerting fans of the television series on the significant changes made by the author in the novel to the plot as seen on television. I refuse to give any of these changes away, nor any of the story details, as I detest most Amazon mystery reviewers(not all) as blabbermouthed nincompoops, who call to mind the asinine rabbi on Seinfeld who can't keep a confidence, but insists on blurting out personal information to everyone he meets. A mystery just isn't your average novel - imagine someone describing the ending of the Orient Express in a review? I've actually seen just that! Yet even small touches at the beginning of a great mystery can be spoiled by a clumsy review. With mystery reviews "Less definitely is more!" And To quote Ninotchka, "There will be fewer but better Russians," - let the bodies pile up by themselves in their own good time. Respect not only the dead but the author's efforts at creating surprise! Let a reader enjoy discovering ALL the story.
The Jewel That Was Ours trots out a regular steeplechase of suspects, with more various and far more complex interactives than anything possible within the confines of the time constraints the tv show faced. I prefer this version of the story, and disagree with the Kirkus reviewer who seems to find this rather stale beer, as Morse would put it.
I also don't agree with complaints about lack of character development -there's certainly far more here when compared to the television version. Fans of highly complicated plots should have a field day here.
In sum: quite different and far more complicated than the television version titled "The Wolvercote Tongue" - so there's no worry of 'already knowing how it turns out.'
Note to author - as if he hasn't heard it a thousand times - The American battleship South Dakota was sold for scrap in 1962. Next time, Colin, consult Janes.

"It's this wretched love business."
Featuring a large assortment of characters, most of them Americans on a tour of England, the ninth Inspector Morse mystery is heavy on details and complications and more difficult to follow than most other mysteries in this series.Laura Stratton is on the trip to donate the priceless, bejeweled Wolvercote Tongue to the Ashmolean Museum, which already has the ancient Wolvercote Buckle to which it belongs.Laura's death in her bathroom, the theft of the treasure, the subsequent murder of museum curator Dr. Theodore Kemp, a suicide, and a pedestrian accident in which a woman on the tour is run down by a car provide more than enough turmoil and mystery to keep Inspector Morse, his trusty Sgt. Lewis, and the local police force busy, full-time.

Morse must decide whether these events are all related and, if they are, if one person is responsible for all the mayhem.Because of the large cast of characters, there is little opportunity for individual character development, making it more difficult than usual to keep track of the many characters.In addition, some of the tourists, tour agency employees, and Oxford lecturers are having relationships with each other, further complicating the stories.All the characters have alibis.Many will vouch for each other, and those who appear guilty of some parts of a crime could not possibly have committed other parts of the same crime.

As Morse becomes frustrated by the complexities, many readers will also become frustrated--with the undeveloped characters, the red herrings, and lack of linear progression in the cases.In the conclusion, Morse draws the tour group together and outlines his case, step by step, telling them (and the reader)about what has happened, instead of showing the action while it is happening.Though Morse solves the case(s), the author keeps the reader at arm's length and prevents him/her from being part of the excitement as the mysteries are solved.

Because the development of Morse's character and relationship with Lewis, usually a high point in these novels, is sacrificed to the complexities of the cases, readers new to the series will gain little understanding of these two men and how they work together and apart.One of the most complex novels in the Inspector Morse series, The Jewel That Was Ours is filled with a large number of seemingly interchangeable characters, all of whom have unlimited potential for evil in a plot overly filled with red herrings.n Mary Whipple

There's all kinds of death in this book, but only one murder
In this book we see a death by natural causes, a suicide, a death by a road accident, and one death by murder.Morse and his wonderful Lewis are left to solve the puzzle which also includes a theft of a very valuable piece of jewellery.I can't stress enough how wonderful this series is!Dexter is a very gifted writer, and the puzzles that he sets are masterpieces.He is a master storyteller who sets a perfect pace and he crafts wonderful characters.I really enjoy seeing these done on film with John Thaw as Morse, but reading the books is really the way to really appreciate the intricacies of each of these books.I'm only sorry that I have only four left to read until the end of the series. ... Read more

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