 | The Bourne Identity (Bourne Trilogy, Book 1) by Robert Ludlum
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Ludlum's movies are always better than the originals. When a Ludlum hero is surrounded by highly-trained killers, don't worry. He's going to kick the guns out of their hands.
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 | Schindler's List (Full Screen Edition)
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $6.99 Schindler's dramatic last speech is one of the great absurdities of movie history. The movie would actually be watchable without this embarrassing scene.
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 | Wars I Have Seen by Gertrude Stein
Buy used from: $11.00 One of Stein's many unreadable books. Stein's peculiar "style" was stolen by Hemingway, who vastly improved on it.
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 | Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-6) by J.K. Rowling
Buy used from: $44.07 Fine for 11-year olds, but you should be a bit disappointed when it's a matter of your 18-year old. Replace Harry with Tolkien, Twain or L'Engle.
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 | Slumdog Millionaire
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.30 Entertaining, but the torture scenes are just ridiculous and racist. Freida Pinto is lovely but can't act (typical "model/actress"). Better alternatives: Black Orpheus, Salaam Bombay, or the Apu Trilogy.
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 | My Life by Bill Clinton
Buy used from: $2.76 A good President but horrible writer. When a boring book is 100 pages long, that's bad enough -- but when it's 900 pages long, that's a literary crime.
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 | Bad by Michael Jackson
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.07 A dancing genius, everything he did after the Jackson Five is over-produced corporate Coca-Cola. No disrespect to Quincy Jones, but "great pop" is a contradiction in terms.
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 | Scarface (Full Screen Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $2.66 Cinematic kitsch. Tony Montana has a ridiculous name and an unbelievable accent. Fun to watch, but over-rated as a "classic." Great movies are more than fun.
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