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 …
Books in a lifetime
How many books can one read in their life? I saw a nice quote from G.R.R Martin today, in one of his books: A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. It made me wonder how many books I've read, and if it was …
Jonas David 