John Le Carre definitely had some nice adaptations over the years. "A Most Wanted Man" with Philip Seymour Hoffman captured the essence of the War On Terror just as "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" with Richard Burton personified the Cold War. Those dust jacket covers really enhance the presentation of the covers. Le Carre is a must for a spy fiction collection in addition to Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Len Deighton, Ian Fleming and Adam Hall.
A Perfect Spy is my all time favourite novel by any author. It is so funny in parts, incredibly sad in parts and contains the best charictors he ever wrote. It took me 5 reads of it to fully grasp the entire story. Sadly few people rate it.....the name pun alone is outstanding magnuSPYm. 'they call it natural cover Pym tells Axcell' lol🤐TV Adaptation OF it is good too, on par with TT and SP id say. He wrote using pen and paper in with the help of his wife I seem to remember The first Sisman biography mentions I think. I don't know his most recent novels 2000s onwards. His 1980s period is my favourite: Little Drummer Girl, A.P.S and The Russia House. Ive not read Night Manager but will later this year. Series is good. Im re-rading A Small Town in Germany at present. Its fairly disturbing compared to the rest I know. The most chilling i've read by him.
Don’t you say it’s his son?! I read one of his novels years after I saw it randomly recommended to me via some blog website in 2010s and it was good! Felt very British.
@@Morfeusm yep! He helped finish LeCarré’s final book, Silverview, too. I have a whole Nick Harkaway playlist on my channel and he was in my London vlog from two weeks ago. Cool guy.
working my way through le Carre but i'm currently 1/2 way through ICON by Frederick Forsyth. the first thing that occurs is a janitor steals a secret document from a desk. it's far larger in scope than the typical le Carre novel, enjoining multiple agencies. it's also surprisingly salient to the current political situation. easy reading and much more explanatory of spycraft for the neophyte.
A Perfect Spy has the widest scope by far of any leCarre novels IMO. It covers so much, so many plots within plots, every type and class of peopel, etc. From 1930s to late 1980s. Pym is his most thoroughly written charictor. We know everything about him - unlike Smiley.
@@nickellingham1764 gads, that's one i don't have here. i just snagged A Legacy of Spies and The Honorable Schoolboy. i'll keep an eye out, as they say. thanks.
@stephenmorton8017 personaly, I'd leave a Legacy of spy's until you've read the other Smiley novels as It's the last one he's in, concluding his career and beyond. Honorable schoolboy I've not read but need to. Also, I'd probably recommend leaving that one until you've read Tinker Taylor first. It's part 2 of that trilogy. I'm not sure if honourable schoolboy works as a stand-alone novel. Tinker Taylor certainly does. Smileys people is part 3 and I know it well. Oddly, it follows on very well from TT being part 1.
Very hard to say. depends on your personal interests. Id begin with A call for The Dead. Its more a murder mystery in ways - but introduces Smiley very well. Then probably The Spy Who.... Both quite short ones too.
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I read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold after your review video. AMAZING! You're my main man booktuber!
Awesome
that one is brutal.
The problem with watching the greatest television show in the universe is now my TBR is so large it'll be years before I can get through them all.
As someone who has a TBR until 2027 I sympathize with this sentiment
❤love your collection
Love his books!
John Le Carre definitely had some nice adaptations over the years. "A Most Wanted Man" with Philip Seymour Hoffman captured the essence of the War On Terror just as "The Spy Who Came In From The Cold" with Richard Burton personified the Cold War. Those dust jacket covers really enhance the presentation of the covers. Le Carre is a must for a spy fiction collection in addition to Eric Ambler, Graham Greene, Len Deighton, Ian Fleming and Adam Hall.
A Perfect Spy is my all time favourite novel by any author. It is so funny in parts, incredibly sad in parts and contains the best charictors he ever wrote. It took me 5 reads of it to fully grasp the entire story. Sadly few people rate it.....the name pun alone is outstanding magnuSPYm. 'they call it natural cover Pym tells Axcell' lol🤐TV Adaptation OF it is good too, on par with TT and SP id say.
He wrote using pen and paper in with the help of his wife I seem to remember The first Sisman biography mentions I think.
I don't know his most recent novels 2000s onwards.
His 1980s period is my favourite: Little Drummer Girl, A.P.S and The Russia House. Ive not read Night Manager but will later this year. Series is good.
Im re-rading A Small Town in Germany at present. Its fairly disturbing compared to the rest I know. The most chilling i've read by him.
you surely got me interested in his prose
Hilarious. But basically true.
Have you read his son’s books? Love them. Totally different, stand on their own. Nick Harkaway.
Don’t you say it’s his son?!
I read one of his novels years after I saw it randomly recommended to me via some blog website in 2010s and it was good!
Felt very British.
@@Morfeusm yep! He helped finish LeCarré’s final book, Silverview, too. I have a whole Nick Harkaway playlist on my channel and he was in my London vlog from two weeks ago. Cool guy.
i am googling the name right now
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS I’ve loved all of his books. Deep, complicated, fun, and very hard to stick in a genre.
working my way through le Carre but i'm currently 1/2 way through ICON by Frederick Forsyth. the first thing that occurs is a janitor steals a secret document from a desk. it's far larger in scope than the typical le Carre novel, enjoining multiple agencies. it's also surprisingly salient to the current political situation. easy reading and much more explanatory of spycraft for the neophyte.
that reminds me i need to re-read Day of the Jackal
A Perfect Spy has the widest scope by far of any leCarre novels IMO. It covers so much, so many plots within plots, every type and class of peopel, etc. From 1930s to late 1980s. Pym is his most thoroughly written charictor. We know everything about him - unlike Smiley.
@@nickellingham1764 gads, that's one i don't have here. i just snagged A Legacy of Spies and The Honorable Schoolboy.
i'll keep an eye out, as they say. thanks.
@@B.LEE.DbrianleedurfeeREVIEWS we watched the original (first) film the other day. i've never read that one.
@stephenmorton8017 personaly, I'd leave a Legacy of spy's until you've read the other Smiley novels as It's the last one he's in, concluding his career and beyond. Honorable schoolboy I've not read but need to. Also, I'd probably recommend leaving that one until you've read Tinker Taylor first. It's part 2 of that trilogy. I'm not sure if honourable schoolboy works as a stand-alone novel. Tinker Taylor certainly does. Smileys people is part 3 and I know it well. Oddly, it follows on very well from TT being part 1.
Which book would you recommend as a start for someone who never read any of his books???
Very hard to say. depends on your personal interests. Id begin with A call for The Dead. Its more a murder mystery in ways - but introduces Smiley very well. Then probably The Spy Who.... Both quite short ones too.
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Any suggestion as to where to start with Le Carre, Mr. Durfee?
the Night Manager or The Constant Gardner. But the easiest one to get into is The Spy who Came In From The Cold
What about the night manager?
He does mention it - and rates it highly.