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Good to know. Gonna start the Smiley series once I've finished TLDG. Think I'm receiving book vouchers for crimble, so I'll pop into the nearest Waterstones soonish, how I long to have an independent book shop (or any book shop for that matter) in the local town.
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True. You can’t go wrong with LeCarre. But you must read the Smiley novels in order or you’ll be confusing the background, which will be confusing.
Outside of that they are all stand-alone. And all brilliant. And I’m sad that I’ll never read a new LeCarre.
But I’ll spend the rest of my life rereading them
fakenger35
Pretty much all the le carre books are good.
The later ones are strange because he’s ancient and trying to write people in their 30s & 40s but without any cultural references. They still hold up