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3.86 AVERAGE
3.86 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
My audiobook was a BBC radio drama and it was very good!
I don’t know why I kept reading. I spent most of this book trying to understand what was happening… and I don’t mean because it was a mystery, because obvious for some of it you’re supposed to be in the dark. But I mean that it felt like this was a sequel and I was supposed to know who these people were but they were never “introduced”. I just couldn’t keep the dad’s gang clear in my head, nor any of the people working with Brotherhood, and I eventually just gave up. Especially over the Brotherhood scenes. I have no clue who was his boss (Nigel?), who worked for him, or who was American. Even that aside, because again I think some of that was on purpose as the story was doled out… there was so much tradecraft language that I just couldn’t understand. I
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And did he love his father, or hate him, or both? And what was with him and Axel and America? I’m left with way more questions than answers after this book, and not in a good way.
The end was interesting, though.
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And did he love his father, or hate him, or both? And what was with him and Axel and America? I’m left with way more questions than answers after this book, and not in a good way.
The end was interesting, though.
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I've been listening to this for the last couple of months and despite a slow start eventually got sucked deeply into the narrative. It's a dense but rewarding tale, skipping between the past with a colourful and morally traumatising upbringing with his conman father, his education and forays into his life as a spy, to the present as everything comes crashing down around his fractured life.
Pym is a thrilling and complicated character, a man so twisted with the constant lies and half truths that he doesn't know who he is anymore. Part autobiographical, le Carre has created a moving, funny and emotional novel that most have cut quite close to the bone. A brave work.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Michael Jayston who does a wonderful job bringing it all to life, throwing around some great accents and providing a loving empathy. I think I may have found the printed version harder to get through right now.
Well worth the time.
Pym is a thrilling and complicated character, a man so twisted with the constant lies and half truths that he doesn't know who he is anymore. Part autobiographical, le Carre has created a moving, funny and emotional novel that most have cut quite close to the bone. A brave work.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Michael Jayston who does a wonderful job bringing it all to life, throwing around some great accents and providing a loving empathy. I think I may have found the printed version harder to get through right now.
Well worth the time.
I've been listening to this for the last couple of months and despite a slow start eventually got sucked deeply into the narrative. It's a dense but rewarding tale, skipping between the past with a colourful and morally traumatising upbringing with his conman father, his education and forays into his life as a spy, to the present as everything comes crashing down around his fractured life.
Pym is a thrilling and complicated character, a man so twisted with the constant lies and half truths that he doesn't know who he is anymore. Part autobiographical, le Carre has created a moving, funny and emotional novel that most have cut quite close to the bone. A brave work.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Michael Jayston who does a wonderful job bringing it all to life, throwing around some great accents and providing a loving empathy. I think I may have found the printed version harder to get through right now.
Well worth the time.
Pym is a thrilling and complicated character, a man so twisted with the constant lies and half truths that he doesn't know who he is anymore. Part autobiographical, le Carre has created a moving, funny and emotional novel that most have cut quite close to the bone. A brave work.
I listened to the audiobook narrated by Michael Jayston who does a wonderful job bringing it all to life, throwing around some great accents and providing a loving empathy. I think I may have found the printed version harder to get through right now.
Well worth the time.
While I really really liked this, I certainly wouldn't recommend it to everyone. But it reminds me of The Long Goodbye in a way, in that it's a great genre author writing their most personal, least genre-focused novel. (Full disclosure: I haven't read all of Chandler or of Le Carre). It wasn't perfect by any means, some sections of it didn't work as well as the rest, but the overall momentum and characters were excellent. And the pacing was expert.
Got bored and gave up. The description that was obviously biographical was interesting but waaaay too much for me.