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Pros & Cons
Pros
Author's reading of his own work is masterful. In books like the tailor of pannama his frustration with american militarism shouts out all other aspects of the book.
A legacy of spies offers the kind of subtlety, humanity and tragedy that is rarely found in the spy genre. There are many interesting twists and as usual there is little honor among spies (until the end) a couple of the characters feel extraneous, and... Read More
Agent running is a ripping yarn, with now nary a poke at the united states (but more than a few at its leader) he is now in a backwater home assignment (the haven) tending to old defectors when chance and his love of badminton brings him back.
Cons
John lecarre's latest novel is slow and lousy, and outs the author as a liberal whiner. The dump on trump inserts betray a lack of any interesting content. Carré's hatred of donald trump is quite welcome, but that is about the only arresting thingabou... Read More
Highlights
Quality
I have absolutely no problem with the ending itself actually amazing in a way
I absolutely recommend this book with the above caveats which in no way take away from the book
Both are headed for trouble with the british political establishment which once and forever has gone for the main chance and so... Read More
Competitiveness
This was going to be a 5star review up until the ending
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- This product had a total of 7,372 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 4 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
On starting i noticed that there are several blank pages in the kindle edition so i reverted to the reviews to see if anyone else had the same problem
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The reviews are a delight page after page of whiny little englanders finding common cause with trump supporters joined in their horror that someone should write about them
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I cannot wait until a corrected version of the book is available sans blank pages so that i can read it wellmarinated in their indignation and enjoy it even more than i was planning to
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This was going to be a 5star review up until the ending
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
It just seems that either it is a set up for part 2 or lecarre simply ran out of steam
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As an aside a little more philosophical maybe we arent owed explanations and not all questions are answered
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Le carre is quite clearly not a fan of either of these malignant enterprises
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