Wednesday, April 19, 2006

A Small Town In Germany (25)

A Small Town In Germany
By John le Carre

Ok.. we are into April now, so I am re-reading authors... And I am also a bit behind. I have not been workin nearly as much so that cuts into my reading time which shows in how many books I have read recently.. Only 1 so far in April. However I was also reading Carter's book on Tut's tomb.. the first season.. so that is nearly done also.

This book was a bit hard to get through... it was heavy on dialog, and you were never sure what was going on.. It took me about 40 pages to figure out that someone was missing and so were some files.. and it is not really until the last 70 pages that the action heats up and you start to understand the big story. Over all it wasnt a bad book.. It was heavy on Bonn politics, and the conversations were heavy with British slang.. so it was not quick reading. I do like leCarre and look forward to reading more of his stuff.. hopefully it will go a bit quicker ;)
Interesting point is that this book ended in a very similar fashion to The Spy Who Came In From The Cold. I wonder if that is a pattern with leCarre? I will have to read more to find out!

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