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>>7830202
idk but i loved the spy who came n from the cold

i've never read any spy fiction but i generally hate spy movies
theyre always too impersonal, i never know or care who anybody is and they're full of boring exposition

is that pretty much what to expect from spy fiction?

>>7830242
no

>>7830258
maybe

i'm reading it right now as my subway read, and i've had 3 professors notice it in my hand and start a 5 minute convo about how much they love it

who even cares though

>>7830202
It's a good type of airport thriller, but yeah that's essentially all.

I cracked out on this author maybe five years ago and while he is a little trashy, I felt like he was pretty engrossing trash. Interrogation/interview scenes have a satisfying tension, and his world has an almost occult glow to it, as if he were writing about magicians and witches rather than spies.

Unfortunately, he follows a very predictable thriller formula and I never got the sense that there's much going on beneath the surface of his books. But it's a pretty, initially very engaging surface.

I've read some straight spy trash, he's not straight trash, buy classy trash. At least that's what I tell myself to feel good about my shit life decisions.

I read the Spy Who Came in from the Cold and I thought it was great, then I read Smiley's People and I felt like I was reading the same book again with the locations and names changed. (I know that's completely out of order.) Then I watched Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and it was the same thing again.