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The Cost of Living by Mavis Gallant (written a while ago but newly collected this year) *wrong touchstone
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
Smiley's People by John le Carré
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić
In ... ... Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Cost of Living by Mavis Gallant (written a while ago but newly collected this year)
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
Smiley's People by John le Carré
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić
In ... ... Sylvia Townsend Warner
The Cost of Living by Mavis Gallant (written a while ago but newly collected this year)
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
Smiley's People by John le Carré
The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić
In ... ... by Alfred Döblin
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Everything Flows by Vassily Grossman
Nonfiction
Freedom ... ... Alfred Döblin*
The War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas Llosa*
Bosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andrić*
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré*
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson*
Nonfiction
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depress ... ... by Ivo Andric, followed by John le Carre's Karla Trilogy
Nonfiction: No nonfiction winner
July
Fiction: *A Perfect Spy by John le Carre
Nonfiction: *The Coldest March: Scott's Fatal Antarctic Expedition by Susan Solomon
August
Fiction: *Let the Great World Spin ... ... -- better in that they get more psychologically complex and less "spy novelish." And that is the reason why I thought A Perfect Spy is the best of all -- it is really a psychological novel about family, missing and tormenting fathers, and the impact of history on individual lives.
But I ... I got Himself a Le Carré for Christmas because of Rebecca so I hope it isn't a Gordian knot as well: A Perfect Spy. Hope to read it myself in the new year (of course *wink*). ... I already owned. While I really enjoyed it, in my opinion, nothing he's written can touch the Smiley/Karla trilogy and A Perfect Spy. ... often grieving and tormented, find their lives lightened by love and the human drive to do more than just survive.
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré -- a perfect spy novel that is really more a story of love, betrayal, family, and the impact of personal and political history.
The G ... There is already a link on book pages to conversations about a book. For example, if you go to the page for A Perfect Spy, on the left you will see a link to "Conversations," between the links for Descriptions and Common Knowledge. The number indicates the number of conversations.
Clicking ... ... of Smiley's People so I'll either get The Leopard from Netflix after I finish this series or after the three disks of A Perfect Spy, depending on how I feel. But I'll let you know once I watch it. ... Carre' novels. I think the Quest for Karla books are the best he's written, followed by The Russia House and then A Perfect Spy. Just barely ahead of Perfect.
Read this over and my ranking them isn't helpful. We are talking taste here. I'll look over your library. You must have ... ... THS, and you will be even more blown away by the last one in the trilogy, Smiley's People. Then you should go on and read A Perfect Spy, which surpasses them all.
#47, Smiley, I agree with you in general about le Carrés best work being the cold war novels, but I got back into reading ... a perfect spy by John Le Carré
I'm right smack in the middle of the audiobook. ... was just one of those random grabs from the library shelf for me, but given how much I liked it and Rebecca's review of A Perfect Spy, I may have to read more by this author. ... the writing and by the information. Glad to hear it's still available and probably more relevant than ever.
I finished A Perfect Spy, another John le Carre, and easily not only the best of his I've read but one of the best books I've read this year -- on the surface a spy story, but really ... #151: I can't remember you endorsing something with such vigour so A Perfect Spy is DEFINITELY going on the wishlist. #42 A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
Thank you to TomCatMurr and others who recommended that I read this book. It is without question the best of the le Carrés I have read, and in fact one of the best books of all kinds I've read this year. Although on the surface a spy story, it is really ... #42 A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
Thank you to TomCatMurr and others who recommended that I read this book. It is without question the best of the le Carrés I have read, and in fact one of the best books of all kinds I've read this year. Although on the surface a spy story, it is really ... ... for the Reading Globally Polar Regions theme read and had mixed feelings about it. Now I'm back with John le Carré and A Perfect Spy. ... re-read any J.R.R. Tolkein. I hear the boring.
Odd reaction to the Eyre Affair. I thought it was a hoot.
A Perfect Spy-Good. Seemed liked the author's most biographical work that I read.
Watership Down-Loved it and my wife and I read it to each other on a long car trip ... ... me I need to get the step-ladder out and get down my other old le Carrés from the top shelf. I definitely want to read A Perfect Spy, and possibly The Russia House. ... under the volcano.
can now press on with watership down by richard adams, rebecca by daphne du maurier, a perfect spy by john le carre, salman rushdie's the enchantress of florence, which is driving me up the wall, and in dribs and drabs as occasion permits, barchester ... ... a cassette in to see if it's a book that does well in audio and i love it so that's in there as well. arrrrgggghhh.
a perfect spy by Le Carre also arrived and i was feeling sleuthy so I'm dabbling my feet in that as well.
as and when my vision allows, I'm visiting Anne Porter's ... I'll stick up for Le Carre here. His book A Perfect Spy is a really penetrating analysis of the self masquerading as a brilliant thriller. The George Smiley trilogy is also superb.
The wombat is here under the sofa with me. We are getting acquainted.
Davushka, (your cravat is a bit skew. H ... Murder in the House by Margaret Truman
The Perfect Murder by H.R.F. Keating
A Perfect Spy by John le Carré
My Silent War : the Autobiography of a Spy by Kim Philby
Silent Partner by Stephen Frey
Thanks for stopping by and for the (I think) compliment. I do own A Perfect Spy by I've had it for so long I can't remember if I've read it. I'll have to get it off the shelf and give it a read/reread. And yes, Freedom from Fear is a great book, long but completely readable and worth ... ... LeCarre. Although I have never been into mysteries or crime or spy novels, he is truly a cut above. Have you read his A Perfect Spy?
I really must get Freedom from Fear -- sounds so good. ... (One I listened to)
7. The Satanic Verses
8. Middlesex
9. The Alchemist
10. The Easy Way to Stop Smoking
11. A Perfect Spy
12. What is the What
13. On Writing
14. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
15. The Known World
16. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (One I've read ... I'm a huge fan of Le Carre. A Perfect Spy is a superb book, and one that deserves more serious critical attention. It's more than a genre book, imo. I didn't even know that he had a new book out. I must rush out and get it now.
Have you seen the old BBC series of Smiley's People, with Alec Guin ... 78. A Perfect Spy by John Le Carré ... Who Knew Too Much by G K Chesterton
The Woman Who Walked Into Doors by Roddy Doyle
A Perfect Woman by L P Hartley
A Perfect Spy by John Le Carre ... Vonnegut
Madam Bovary--Gustave Flaubert
Have His Carcase--Dorothy L. Sayers
Red Dragon--Thomas Harris
A Perfect Spy--John Le Carre
Tis--Frank McCourt
The Bowl is Already Broken--Mary Kay Zuravleff
On Beauty--Zadie Smith
Library Sale Books:
A Swiftly Tilting P ... ... plots will especially like this one.
The Flowers of the Forest a.k.a. The Oxford Gambit is somewhat like A Perfect Spy, treating that spy fiction trope with more "thriller elements" but still without losing the rich thematic explorations (of betrayal, dishonesty, etc.) that A ... ... US as The Oxford Gambit, is the novel of Hone's that I'm most interested in plot-wise, it being somewhat reminiscent of A Perfect Spy.
(This highly detailed discussion of his work implies that each of Hone's four ... Red Storm Rising, the Bourne Supremacy, The Prince of Tides and A Perfect Spy. I think I also may have read the Dr. Seuss, but none of the diet or cook books. ... pies
8. Last of the Breed, Louis L'Amour 271 copies
9. The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy 1,284 copies
10. A Perfect Spy, John Le Carré 694 copies
N O N F I C T I O N
1. Fatherhood, Bill Cosby 337 copies
2. Fit for Life, Harvey and Marilyn Diamond 163 ... ... by Robert Ferrigno
35. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs
36. An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
37. A Perfect Spy by John Le Carre
38. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove by Christopher Moore
39. In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches
40. Working for ... ... le Carré (July): This is one of the best of le Carre’s books, in my opinion, a more direct and immediate story than A Perfect Spy, with many of the same elements. It has le Carré’s characteristic lonely spy, an ethical man who finds himself adrift and conflicted in a corrupt world, ... Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
Lot's Wife by Tom Wakefield
A Perfect Spy by John LeCarre
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin I hope to finish the following books this week:
A Perfect Spy by John Le Carre
An Audience of Chairs by Joan Clark
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