The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

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1. lupusrealMar 2025
   The Spy Who Came In From The Cold is another great movie (and great book) semi-related to this theme.
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2. havblueJan 2023
   I thought the Spy Who Came in From the Cold had a more straightforward plot than some of his other books, if you want to give him another try.
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3. tptacekDec 2022
   I finally got around to reading The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, which was pretty great. Also the Richard Burton movie (read the book first).

   Best paper, easily:

   https://nebuchadnezzar-megolm.github.io/

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4. MizzaOct 2022
   The best is "The Spy Who Came In From the Cold". It's a short read but a wallop of an ending.
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5. peteretepMar 2021
   > John Le Carre is one of my favorite authors

   I have greatly enjoyed his work, although I've found him wildly inconsistent. His great books are sublime (eg: The Spy Who Came in from the Cold), but he published a fair amount of dross too (eg: The Looking Glass War). I'd like to see more Netflix adaptations

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6. tunesmithMar 2021
   As a non-Brit, I'm using the dictionary to look up words often, sometimes multiple times per page. So reading Le Carre's books as ebooks is better for me just for that reason.

   I'm reading them in order. I found the first two enjoyable enough, but it took getting to the ending of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold for me to really "get" Le Carre. That floored me. Taking a break before starting the next one.

   I also got a hint of that feeling from the "A Most Wanted Man" movie.

   I didn't really like the Gary Oldman Tinker Tailor movie, so I'm not sure how much I'm looking forward to that book.

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