The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (20)

The Spy Who Came In From The Cold
by John le Carre

I am still on my quest to no re-read an author until after April 1.. This has forced me to look deep into my book shelf for things over looked.. Including this book. I had always heard that le Carre was overly detailed and tedious to read. I did not find this book that way at all.. It was very interesting.. and adventure.. but you were confused where it was going.. lots of turns and twists.. This book reminded me very much of the Deighton spy books.. and of course they are in the same genre. The ending was surprising.. not the happy ending many books have.. yet kept very much in line with the book. So today I went out and bought 5 more leCarre books, along with the 2 I already had.. I will get to them some day.. The point of no re reading an author for 3 months is to force me to read different people.. rather than reading the same authors to exhaustion. This has been largely sucessful and I have found several authors I want to read more of.. and have purchased many books to this effect.
I have been recently reminded that I do like science fiction.. reading some Asimov short stories now.. next up is 2061 by Clarke.
As a side note.. I believe the copy of the book that I have is an original edition (1963 Coward McCann publishers). Rather interesting to have a first edition of the third book written by an author that went on to become very sucessful and have several of his books made into movies.. A review of the Internet show this 46 year old first editon is worth... $1.97
Good thing I enjoy books, because I am sure not going to get rich doing this - lol