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  • Most Wanted Man is my 3rd Le Carre novel, and it followed a familiar pattern with my previous reads. I should say, my struggle to finish the book was familiar. Ironically, I love his writing style. In each novel, though, I simply had to drag myself through the pages. I don't need to summarize th ... Continue

    Most Wanted Man is my 3rd Le Carre novel, and it followed a familiar pattern with my previous reads. I should say, my struggle to finish the book was familiar. Ironically, I love his writing style. In each novel, though, I simply had to drag myself through the pages. I don't need to summarize the story - that's been done enough on Amazon - but I will say that unlike my previous two selections, MWM was all over the place - it suffered a distinct lack of focus... and it was boring.

    Le Carre was at the height of his literary power when writing about what he knew firsthand - cold war Realpolitik. I have to assume that he's out of his element writing about the "War on Terror". Or, perhaps his confused portrayal of intelligence agencies as much at war with each other as with an enemy they don't understand - that doesn't play by established Cold War rules; afraid to get it wrong, so just rounding everybody up in the same dragnet regardless of guilt or innocence - is more telling than I credit.

    Either way, as a novel it wasn't gripping, it wasn't terribly interesting... it was hard to keep my eyes open. I think I'm done with Le Carre.

    

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• ― Andyberschauer said on May 1, 2009 | 1 feedback| 1 feedback