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• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
• John le Carré
• English
• 15 July 2020
• 9781408400876

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characters µ eBook or Kindle ePUB ´ John le Carré John le Carré ´ 3 read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy review ò 103 Art It is now beyond a doubt that a mole implanted decades ago by Moscow Centre has burrowed his way into the highest echelons of British Intelligence His treachery has already blown some of its most. Whenever I think of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy I inevitably think of love love that grants fortitude love that clouds judgment love that scars the soul and roots the heart Although it is my experience of the book that guides me it perhaps also has to do with the 1979 BBC miniseries with the way Alec Guinness appears stolid and wounded like an animal to the slaughter hit in the head with a hammer with each inevitable mention of his wife s beauty each smirking hint at her chain of adulteriesOf course the book is about many other things besides love it is about the mysterious nature of allegiances and the way they change over time about social class as an inescapable system of markers and man s bathetic attempts to emphasize or erase them about how the look of a system subtly changes when it begins to betray itself about how the illusions which make a man vulnerable also help him surviveStill though the book is about love George s love for Ann of course but Roach s love for his teacher too Jim s love for Bill Haydon Bill s love for himself the outsider Percy s love for the insider s power barren Connie s love for all her boys Yes on this much Karla and Smiley may agree it is last illusion of the illusionless man loveAbove all the other loves in the book though there is one love who binds closest to herself those whom she betrays the compromised goddess who reuires devotion most particularly from her disillusioned devotees Smiley true to Ann is true to her as well Brittania old England herself The Fifth Week roots the heart Although it is my experience of the book that guides me it perhaps also has to do with the 1979 BBC miniseries with the way Alec Guinness appears stolid and wounded like an animal to the slaughter hit in the head with a hammer with each inevitable mention of his wife s beauty each smirking hint at her chain of adulteriesOf course the book is about many other things besides love it is about the mysterious nature of allegiances and the way they change over time about social class as an inescapable system of markers and man s bathetic attempts to emphasize or erase them about how the look of a system subtly changes when it begins to betray itself about how the illusions which make a man vulnerable also help him surviveStill though the book is about love George s love for Ann of course but Roach s love for his teacher too Jim s love for Bill Haydon Bill s love for himself the outsider Percy s love for the insider s power barren Connie s love for all her boys Yes on this much Karla and Smiley may agree it is last illusion of the illusionless man loveAbove all the other loves in the book though there is one love who binds closest to herself those whom she betrays the compromised goddess who Find the Constellations reuires devotion most particularly from her disillusioned devotees Smiley true to Ann is true to her as well Brittania old England herself

characters µ eBook or Kindle ePUB ´ John le Carré John le Carré ´ 3 read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy review ò 103 Vital operations and its best networks It is clear that the double agent is one of its own kind But which one George Smiley is assigned to identify him And once identified the traitor must be destroye. I m going to state the obvious and say John le Carr is a really good writerThis was my first le Carr novel and I can see why he s considered such a master of the spy genre The story itself was thrilling but what I most appreciated were his thoughtful descriptions The writing was so insightful that it was easy to become invested in the fate of the charactersA uick plot summary George Smiley is a retired British spy He was forced out during a reorganization of the Circus a nickname for the intelligence service One day he s approached and asked to discreetly investigate a mole in the agency someone who s been giving state secrets to Russia George sets to work getting help from some trusted colleagues It was exciting watching George uncover the mole Even though I knew the ending because I had seen the movie it was still thrilling Now that s good writingBut this wasn t just a book about finding a double agent no this was book about friendship love and loyalty It s about having a purpose in life And it s about betrayalThey shared no harmony They had lost all calmness in one another s company they were a mystery to each other and the most banal conversation could take strange uncontrollable directionsBesides Smiley my favorite character in the book was young Bill Roach a student at a prep school Roach is a good watcher and uietly observes things others don t notice For example Roach observes some odd behavior by the school s new teacher Jim Prideaux which suggests he has some secrets Here s an abbreviated early exchange between Jim and Bill that first showed me how well le Carr could write his charactersWhat are you good at BillI don t know sir said Roach woodenlyGot to be good at something surely everyone is How about football Are you good at football BillNo sir said RoachWhat s your best thing thenNow this was an unfortunate uestion to ask of Roach just then for it occupied most of his waking hours Indeed he had recently come to doubt whether he had any purpose on earth at all In work and play he considered himself seriously inadeuate even the daily routine of the school such as making his bed and tidying his clothes seemed to be beyond his reach Also he lacked piety old Mrs Thursgood had told him so he screwed up his face too much at chapel He blamed himself for the break up of his parents marriage which he should have seen coming and taken steps to preventDamn that s a good introduction of a character Rereading it it s no wonder my heart went out to young Bill so early in the book Speaking of strong introductions check out this one for SmileyUnlike Jim Prideaux Mr George Smiley was not naturally euipped for hurrying in the rain least of all at dead of night Indeed he might have been the final form for which Bill Roach was the prototype Small podgy and at best middle aged he was by appearance one of London s meek who do not inherit the earth His legs were short his gait anything but agile his dress costly ill fitting and extremely wet His overcoat which had a hint of widowhood about it was of that black loose weave which is designed to retain moisture Either the sleeves were too long or his arms were too short for as with Roach when he wore his mackintosh the cuffs all but concealed the fingers For reasons of vanity he wore no hat believing rightly that hats made him ridiculousMy one criticism of the writing is that the reader has to uickly adapt to the spy jargon much of it made up by le Carr I thought it was interesting he was inspired to write this novel because of Kim Philby a real life double agent I recently read Ben Macintyre s book on Philby A Spy Among Friends which made me keen to read Tinker Tailor And now I want to read the rest of the George Smiley series John le Carr is such a popular writer that I hardly need to say this but I highly recommend this novel to anyone who likes spy thrillers Favorite uotesHe imagined that like himself Jim had had a great attachment that had failed him and that he longed to replace But here Bill Roach s speculation met a dead end he had no idea how adults loved each otherHe would set up as a mild eccentric discursive withdrawn but possessing one or two lovable habits such as muttering to himself as he bumbled along pavements Out of date perhaps but who wasn t these days Out of date but loyal to his own time At a certain moment after all every man chooses will he go forward will he go back There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind Better to have worth to entrench to be an oak of one s own generationThere are always a dozen reasons for doing nothing There is only one reason for doing something And that s because you want toThere are old men who go back to Oxford and find their youth beckoning to them from the stones Smiley was not one of themHe was of that pre war set that seemed to have vanished for good which managed to be disreputable and high minded at the same timeI have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral Each of us has only a uantum of compassion That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat we never get to the centre of thingsSitting is such an elouent business any actor will tell you that We sit according to our natures We sprawl and straddle we rest like boxers between rounds we fidget perch cross and uncross our legs lose patience lose enduranceIf there s one thing that distinguishes a good watcher from a bad one it s the gentle art of doing damn all convincinglySurvival as Jim Prideaux liked to recall is an infinite capacity for suspicionHe wondered whether there was any love between human beings that did not rest upon some sort of self delusion

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characters µ eBook or Kindle ePUB ´ John le Carré John le Carré ´ 3 read Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy review ò 103 A modern classic in which John le Carré expertly creates a total vision of a secret world Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy begins George Smiley's chess match of wills and wits with Karla his Soviet counterp. A few months ago a stylish looking British adaptation of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy was released in theaters and I was intrigued But I knew better Movies are for smart people If I had to constantly nudge my wife during Superbad to ask uestions like so who is that guy again and wait is she the same one from before then I had to admit that seeing this movie would only serve to make me feel very confused and intellectually inadeuate I do better with books Books explain things Books are for people who need a little uh help in the hand holding department So like any other self respecting moron I decided to read the book instead or at least before seeing the movie that way I could have everything explained to me nice niceBut I was dupedWhen my friend asked me to go with him to see Tinker Tailor I told him it was not possible I explained my reasoning while he nodded agreeably accepting my oddities without judgment But then he said I think you ll find this to be an exception to your rule In this particular case you re going to want to have seen this movie before reading the book Trust me What A Freaking LiarAs soon as those last two words were uttered warning bells should have gone off in my head But I took him at his word and went to see a movie with the most convoluted plot I d ever tried to absorb 120 minutes later I had a raging migraineI now understood the lengths to which someone would go in order to have a companion at the movies I suppose I can t begrudge a man that small favor and I was not entirely the worse for wear 800 mg of ibuprofen and a good night s sleep restored my faculties wonderfully And that s when I decided to read the bookJohn le Carr s novel retains all the plot complexity of the movie and then some but it is delivered in such a way that is digestible Even though I knew the fate of Colin Firth s character my pulse still raced at the novel s climax The author opens up a world of secrets lies espionage and scandal that are somewhat missing from my everyday life but seem to be or less commonplace in a Europe engulfed in the Cold War Mistrust and paranoia run as naturally as snowfall in New England I am generally very glad to have read this book despite having done so after seeing the movie