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Very enjoyable reading, though the pacing/actually narrative started flagging hard halfway through and never really recovered. Feels like it should have been a shorter book - ends up spinning its wheels, so the end doesn't feel very satisfying. The mo ...more |
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Thin on spy thrills, thick on lecturing about relatively obvious global problems. The book has its moments, but they're few and far in between. The story, such as it is, could've been told in half the pages - and Le Carre's prose is not good enough to ...more |
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| Reading this was a bit of a shock. Asimov is such a revered author and I've had many people recommend Foundation to me. I guess it won its accolades for dreaming big, because it sure wasn't for the plot, the prose, or the characters. It was like play ...more | |
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Very enjoyable reading, though the pacing/actually narrative started flagging hard halfway through and never really recovered. Feels like it should have been a shorter book - ends up spinning its wheels, so the end doesn't feel very satisfying. The mo ...more |
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Very enjoyable reading, though the pacing/actually narrative started flagging hard halfway through and never really recovered. Feels like it should have been a shorter book - ends up spinning its wheels, so the end doesn't feel very satisfying. The mo ...more |
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| Definitely the best of Le Carré's work that I've written. Slow and very much told in flash backs, like his other books, but with a better pace and better stakes. (Though some parts of the 'twists' were quite obvious, and yet written like he expected ...more | |
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| Definitely the best of Le Carré's work that I've written. Slow and very much told in flash backs, like his other books, but with a better pace and better stakes. (Though some parts of the 'twists' were quite obvious, and yet written like he expected ...more | |
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| Reading this was a bit of a shock. Asimov is such a revered author and I've had many people recommend Foundation to me. I guess it won its accolades for dreaming big, because it sure wasn't for the plot, the prose, or the characters. It was like play ...more | |
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"Honestly, I don't get why this book/series is so popular. There are some interesting elements to it (for instance, the use of religion as a tool of mass control and the implicit resultant argument that religion is no more than a fraud, "the opiate of"
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