Hey! I'm the person you asked about le Carre on the friending meme. My name is B and I am also super new to DreamWidth, but I'm working on getting to know people. Want to get to know each other? I'm studying Chinese in college too, as it happens; it's my major.
Anyway, I do in fact have recommendations on what le Carre to read if you want them:
- if you like a compassionate, slow, thoughtful thriller that takes its time to smell the roses, is full of beautiful prose, and is all about the relationships people have to each other, read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- if you want a bleak, stripped down, painfully dark thriller, read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- if you like detective novels and extreme homoeroticism and don't mind things being a little rough around the edges because it was le Carre's first novel, read Call for the Dead
- if you want a silly romp that's a lot of fun and super duper (subtextually) gay and don't really care about high quality writing or the plot making sense, read Absolute Friends
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Date: 2018-12-09 10:05 am (UTC)Anyway, I do in fact have recommendations on what le Carre to read if you want them:
- if you like a compassionate, slow, thoughtful thriller that takes its time to smell the roses, is full of beautiful prose, and is all about the relationships people have to each other, read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- if you want a bleak, stripped down, painfully dark thriller, read The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- if you like detective novels and extreme homoeroticism and don't mind things being a little rough around the edges because it was le Carre's first novel, read Call for the Dead
- if you want a silly romp that's a lot of fun and super duper (subtextually) gay and don't really care about high quality writing or the plot making sense, read Absolute Friends