Day: November 26, 2007

I didn’t enjoy Night Train from Martin Amis. The author is famous for many things, including being famous as a contrarian public intellectual. (English authors pull that off even better than the late Norman Mailer did in this country.) He’s not famous for this book, and he shouldn’t be. It’s brief, and the female policewoman…

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The library “books you should read” table got me again. No complaints about this one, though. John Le Carre is a known entity, but not to me. Smiley’s People is my first Le Carré read, though I did catch a recent movie. Despite missing the first two books of the trilogy, I fell in with…

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