I logged into my Submissions Grinder account for the first time since 2014, and boy did I used to submit a lot of stories everywhere... I miss that. Writing novels has kind of taken a lot of the excitement and feeling of making progress out of writing for me, since they take so damn long. …
More spies
I liked The Spy Who Came in from the Cold so much that I got another le Carré novel,   The Looking Glass War. Once again it is very good, I might find myself burning through a lot of these... This one is about a different agent, and he so far seems to be surrounded by …
Spies
I started The Spy Who Came in from the Cold: A George Smiley Novel (George Smiley Novels) which is my first Lecarre novel. It took me a bit to get into it, but now it is interesting. The character, Leamas, Is pretending to be a drunken failure (at least I'm pretty sure he's pretending) and …
The Talented Mr. Ripley, by Patricia Highsmith
The Talented Mr. Ripley did not end the way I expected, though, if I'd noticed that it was part of a series maybe I would have guessed. I really enjoyed this book. The protagonist, Tom, is a disgusting creature, but consistently interesting. He, like any good villain, does not realize what he's doing is wrong, …
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Repulsive beings
I'm still reading The Talented Mr. Ripley and the character, Tom, has now murdered someone and is in the process of taking over their life. The descriptions of him trying on the persons clothes, shoes, jewelry, is somehow disgusting. I don't know what it is in the writing that gave me this uneasy feeling of …
Jonas David 