The tone felt strangely light as I just read Naipaul's "In a Free State", but I liked "Our Man..." a lot. It reminded me of "Crying of Lot 49" in some ways (though it's been like 15 years since I read that). The tone is comic-absurd-mysterious in a similar way. A quick fun read.
Greene did it again. I was moving from book to book, reading a page then flutter away until I started this book and couldn't stop reading until it's finished.
Who knew that Greene could be so amusing? This is a satire of spy novels and a farce. Since the protagonist encodes fictional intelligence, it would be particularly amusing to read in conjunction with something like Stephenson's Cryptonomicon or Sagan's Contact, where the messages are urgently impor...
Greene described this book as an "entertainment." In the early comedic parts I thought that Greene, at least in this instance, had indeed produced a lightweight entertaining novel and was not the heavyweight literature writer I had been lead to believe he was. I was thinking that I would not great...
There are a great number of authors who I can take or leave and there are a few that I can reread and reread and reread and there are a select few that I save up their novels for when I feel I need a certain something, a certain lift. Generally these authors are on the optimistic side of things or a...
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