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A Perfect Spy
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bookshelves: crime-and-thrillers, to-read
Jul 01, 2009
bookshelves: crime-and-thrillers, to-read
Read 2 times. Last read November 18, 2017 to November 25, 2017.
Years ago I read this and gave it 5*****. I tried to re-read it (it's included reading for our Oxford course next summer), but found it disjointed and extremely difficult to follow, with little in the way of cohesive plot. Occasional paragraphs/pages were full of tension and beautifully written but there were not enough of these. I put it aside after 142 pages.
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Reading Progress
Finished Reading
July 1, 2009
– Shelved
December 5, 2011
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crime-and-thrillers
November 18, 2017
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Started Reading
November 25, 2017
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Finished Reading
January 25, 2023
– Shelved as:
to-read
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Nov 19, 2017 08:35AM
there is not better writer than John Le Carre in this genre. I wish there was one who was at least similar enough to start to fill those shoes but all I see is run shoot Bond type silliness around
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Funny, isn't it, how our tastes change? Sometimes I find I'm just not in the proper mood, other times I am just amazed I was ever interested.
Louis, was just curious about the Oxford course you mentioned?
There's a video version by the BBC with Peter Egan playing Magnus and Ray MacAnally playing his father, Rick. It so happened that I watched that I guess three times over the years before reading the book. So I knew the outline and didn't get lost in the flashbacks. But there was so much more in the book. I gave the book 5 stars. Loved it. I've read most of Le Carre's books--all of the Cold War era ones--and I think this is his best.
Agree, Lewis, some passages great, but they are too few.
