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teejayniu 's review for:
The Looking Glass War
by John le Carré
This one was a let down for me. Like most John le Carre novels, the story unwinds slowly, but in this case, it's too slow. The payoff at the end isn't worth the slog. I had a hard time keeping interested in the story and put the book down for long stretches. I eventually switched from hardcover to audiobook to finish out the story. Glad I did that, because the best part of the novel was the very end. There's a scene that gives you a dreadful foreboding of what's to come. It plays out beautifully. I just wish the rest of the novel lived up to that ending. George Smiley shows up only briefly in this novel, but his role at the end highlights the stakes of the spy game.