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by John le Carré

Merle rated it

5 years ago

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I hadn’t read any spy genre novels before, but this one came highly recommended and seems to be a classic of the genre. We’ll call it 4 stars for “this seems like a good book, but it isn’t my genre so don’t take my star rating too seriously.”George Smiley is an unsexy but astute official in Britain’...

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Bibliophagist rated it

10 years ago

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Ne znam je li do prevoda, al je citanje i pracenje fabule bilo mucenje

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Crime-on-thrill rated it

10 years ago

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Can someone tell me why this book is considered to be a masterpiece of spy fiction??? I mean the reader gets "DROPPED" in the middle of nowhere called a "PLOT", with a protagonist who is too lazy or too laid back to care, along with me the reader, about whats going on. And by the end, when the mole ...

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Loves books and cats rated it

10 years ago

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This only gets two stars based on a couple of different things. I took stars away because too much of this book pretty much bored me to tears. It was so slow in the parts where George Smiley is essentially acting as a detective. Is there a mole in the British Centre intelligence office or not? A...

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Loves books and cats rated it

10 years ago

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Bettie's Books rated it

11 years ago

text Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (The Karla Trilogy #1)

bookshelves: adventure, winter20092010, spies, play-dramatisation, fraudio, published-1974 Read in November, 2009 Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley. Blurb - Ever since the capture and torture of their agent in Czechoslova...

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jemidar rated it

11 years ago

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Buddy read with Anna :-).

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