I`ve found le Carre to be quite hit and miss.
You can usually tell which ones are going to be good, as they`ve been made into films or dramatised.
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The GOT Book Club
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I`ve found le Carre to be quite hit and miss.
You can usually tell which ones are going to be good, as they`ve been made into films or dramatised.
Fairlight
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I'm currently reading The Inklings - a very interesting collective biography of a group of literary giants (Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams and others)...
... I used to devour everything by Tolkien and Lewis, so it was with keen expectations that I reached for this book, and it was definitely worth it: it is well researched and written in a simple yet elegant style (resembling, to some extent, Orwell's essays).
... I used to devour everything by Tolkien and Lewis, so it was with keen expectations that I reached for this book, and it was definitely worth it: it is well researched and written in a simple yet elegant style (resembling, to some extent, Orwell's essays).
bluebrotha77
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finished this yesterday.i really enjoyed it,a very good read.
finished this yesterday.i really enjoyed it,a very good read.
Like the look of this.
Does it cover the reasons for the war / the war or both ?
His books are always painfully slow. I've battled through most of them though.
bluebrotha77
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both.it shows the political decisions leading up to the "invasion"and goes through the war then.sorry i'm not much good at explaining things.you read a different book i put up about the same war and if you liked that one well then i feel this is a better book.you will like it i'm pretty sure.
gonetomorrow
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Yup. I would only describe Tinker, Tailor and Spy Who Came In From The Cold as masterpieces, and possibly because they were so well presented on screen.
I'd say Deighton's Game, Set and Match was a better series of page-turners.
I agree with COYB—looks quite intriguing
finished this yesterday.i really enjoyed it,a very good read.
bluebrotha77
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Excellent book.very easy reading.sorry i'm not good at giving summarys of books but if your into them kinda books you will like it. western powers should just leave these countries alone.big modern armies don't do so good when it comes to guerrilla warfare urbsn or countryside which has been proved throughout history.excellent quote from the book "the Russians had the watches but we had the time".
AndyC
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There's a military museum in Kiev I visited about 20 years ago with exhibits of letters home from soldiers in the Ukrainian sections of the Red Army who were sent to Afghanistan, all provided with English translations.
I spent over an hour reading them as they were, or at least appeared and I was assured they were, uncensored and they offer a startlingly frank and at times horrifyingly brutal insight into the harsh conditions the soldiers lived in, their very real fears and the fighting they were involved in.
The letters from young men home to their parents, families, girlfriends etc very much endorse the bold section above.
Anything by John Grisham, Lee Childs or Harlen Coben
Val McDermid is good, too