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BotOnBotAction: This stealthy new book about Twitter 'bots' makes John le Carré's 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' seem as stealthy as a stampede
Osaycanyousee: In July of 2018, John Le Carre, the great British author, wrote: "I would be puzzled to know, if I were in Putin's position, how to run Donald Trump as my asset. I have no doubt they have obtained him. . .[and] the more he [Trump] lies and denies, the stronger his support. . ."
SuperWhalen: The craziest part is this was Silverview by John le Carré
jimoutoffaf: What a wonderful writer John le Carré is.
I’m always a little sad when I finish one.
JonnyGeller: I’m now a fan of Chris Pine as he loves John le Carré.
CoughingSound: Armin Arlert would do very well for himself in the world of a John le Carré novel but George Smiley would get bitten in half by a titan almost instantly
gplondon: In the last 15 or 20 years, I've watched the British press simply go to hell. There seems to be no limit, no depths to which the tabloids won't sink. I don't know who these people are but they're little pigs.
John le Carre
bookofjoe: ChatGPT: "Write a novel in the style of John le Carré." Not yet — but not never
Sweetthang30: On page 48 of 323 of A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carré
DangerousMere: I'm halfway through John Le Carre's Legacy of Spies. I'm looking down the barrel of a long plane flight, so it'll be perfect for that. I found it in an old fridge in Coburg which is now doing duty as a neighbourhood library/ book swap.
GAltringham: The Greatest Movie Trivia (442):
John le Carré's novel was based on the uncovering, during the 1950s and 1960s, of the Cambridge Five traitors, who were K.G.B. moles working within the S.I.S. It is the first book in le Carré's Karla, or Quest for Karla trilogy.
MarkedAsRed: The only man to hold all four great offices of state and one to get bollocked even by the mealy-mouthed John Le Carré. Get a life, m'fers.
Pergament_F: "To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge."
John Le Carre
StaggerLeeF: 07. John le Carré - The Looking Glass War (1965)
Not as remarkably plotted as The Spy Who Came In From The Cold but it's a hell of a mood. Bleak, vicious, class-ridden.
rashmi: Reads like the plot of a John Le Carre novel - Three India / Pakistani families caught in partition decide on the long revenge. Immigrate to Uk, next-generation goes into politics, right when its time to decide on Scottish independence...
Sweetthang30: On page 24 of 323 of A Most Wanted Man, by John le Carré
knifegunpen: I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making. — John le Carre
hjk_daily: What is Harry Jasper Kennedy doing?
Harry is reading The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carré.
themagicbakery: “A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.” John le Carre
CaseGreen4: Anyone else being bombarded with A Spy Among Friends ads? Or is it just me because I think the book rocks and I love John Le Carre style espionage stories
kiba58631: He sees passion in her gray eyes, and it scares him as all passion scares him, his own included.,John le Carré, The Constant Gardener,love, passion,
CDChyld: Renewed Vintage Book Call For the Dead and A Murder Of Quality by John le Carre 1962 2 in 1 George Smiley Novels
StevePadilla2: My two cats were getting a little irritated with each other, which brought to mind John le Carre's comment about storytelling: "The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat's mat is a story."
SachinK1606: I mean Im in the business of storytelling not message making. -John le Carre
jimmyc67: “A committee is an animal with four back legs.”
― John le Carré
DundeeSat: John Le Carre (not real name...musn't speak that which must not be spoken...finger on nose and all that...)
cunninghamjeff: "I have a theory which I suspect is rather immoral. Each of us has only a quantum of compassion. That if we lavish our concern on every stray cat, we never get to the center of things."
--George Smiley in John le Carré's 1974 classic, "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."
GKBesterfriend: Look if you're a dad you have two choices, either you will be a leftist dad and read John le Carré or you will be a liberal dad and you will read Patrick O'Brian.
I don't make the rules but I absolutely will enforce them.
knifegunpen: People are very secretive — secret even from themselves. — John le Carre
anecdotal: If only GPT could write a John le Carré novel about Cold War GPT-enabled spying, with prompts microfilmed and left under park benches.
buzzingbugs: What's the best John Le Carre book to start with?
b2l_Cartoon: FOR READERS OF: suspenseful noirish novels, full of astonishing set-pieces in an international setting: Patricia Highsmith, John le Carré, Graham Greene, Pereira Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi - as well as fans of the stylish crime TV serie...
isomorphisms: A Most Wanted Man
John Le Carré
knifegunpen: A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. — John le Carre
1977khv: Seems like a good day to reup this:
*There are moments which are made up of too much stuff for them to be lived at the time they occur.*
John le Carré
FamilyLines: An archive of letters written by the late John le Carré has found their way into book form. Here’s a review of “A Private Spy” -
DominicPiper1: Bitter Almonds & Jasmine. Dominic Piper.
"PI Daniel Beckett is like Lee Child's Jack Reacher on steroids; John Le Carré's spies on speed. I devoured it; my best read so far this year."
UnrepentantWino: Need to find a good book to read on the beach. In the past I’ve read the Aubrey Maturin novels, John le Carre, Our Man in Havana, and The Day of the Jackal. Just need something in the same vein as those.
billhorgan2005: In my early 20s, I bought the novel, Russia House, read a few dozen pages, and put it down forever.
This week, after a 40-yr layoff, I tried my 2nd John Le Carre novel, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. I managed a few dozen pages before giving up on it.
I'm not a LeCarre fan.
GillFernandez1: A Girl from the South by Joanna Trollope, and last week it was The Constant Gardener by John le Carre.
gary_singh: This was four years ago today, 22 March 2019.
"The ghostly formlessness of adolescence was over. Manhood and maturity beckoned, even if he never made the distance. He was in his beloved Switzerland at last, the spiritual home of natural spies."
— John Le Carré
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thebrumbookclub: In May we'll be going behind the Iron Curtain for John le Carré's masterpiece.
cueball737700: In the words of the famous writer John Le Carre, lsrael has become an “Ugly little Spartan State. He said that 40 years ago. It was never more true than now
Bonastre1: “Smiley was not opposed to social distinctions but he liked to make his own.”
John le Carré, A Murder of Quality
PatrionDigital: I wish profoundly that the rest of us Europeans, in the spirit of a nobler President, would declare ourselves to be citizens of Berlin.
©John le Carré 2003
beerbuohb: A Private Spy: The Letters of John le Carré 6D3IZDY
geoffuptonNZ: This FT story is straight out of John Le Carré.
TheJollyWriter: Goimg to bed almost on time, I managed to read a couple of pages of a book I didn't write and honestly it's just so nice to be lost in someone else's words.
John le Carre bounced off me as a kid but now I'm coming to very much appreciate how he writes now.
Kevin_Seamus: Just finished The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John Le Carre and like umm remake this movie immediately with Clive Owen?
hjk_daily: What is Harry Jasper Kennedy doing?
Harry is reading A Murder of Quality by John Le Carré.
JANEWAM36782251: Yet it's not for want of future that I'm here, he thought. It's for want of a present.,John le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy,future, lack, life, present, purpose,
davegrapes: Pleased to announce that I am now a John Le Carré guy. I’m enjoying one of his books, is what this means. We have to speak this way on Twitter. Can’t just say it normal.
InfoMissBlog: The decision to learn a foreign language is to me an act of friendship. - John Le Carré
BotOnBotAction: This covert new book by Veale & Cook makes John le Carré's 'Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' seem as covert as a used car salesman wearing a white suit
OpiyoAgostine9: There comes a moment for all of us when our childhood ceases to be an excuse. In your case, I would say that, as with many English, the moment is somewhat delayed.,John le Carré, Absolute Friends,childhood, england, english, englishmen,
LawrenceLinehan: ‘His letters reveal how much the UK & US had let him down by the end of his life. “My response to the political scene is vehement,” he wrote to a journalist in 2018. “I hate Brexit, hate Trump ... Shortly before his death, he received Irish citizenship.
chumpofchance: john le carré - the spy who came in from the cold
five stars, i enjoyed it
20BlankCanvases: 5 of 5 stars to The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
AdmiralRoadCap: John le Carré’s Letters Show the Author at His Witty, Erudite and Pugilistic Best
knifegunpen: People are very secretive — secret even from themselves. — John le Carre
jimmyc67: “An artist is a bloke who can hold two fundamentally opposing views and still function:”
~ John le Carré
theshocknews: The Night time Supervisor Indian Adaptation Featured on John Le Carre Ebook Cowl
knifegunpen: You should have died when I killed you. — John le Carre
bmrow: john le carre was like "spycraft is depressing...and gay!!! I'm not actually french"
wretchardthecat: “Love is whatever you can still betray.
Betrayal can only happen if you love.”
― John le Carré
VeryCivilIowan: Ignore whatever this nonsense article says. Burn after Reading, and a smattering of John Le'Carre at his most cynical are what you need. Maybe a history of the Dulles Brothers.
whatmeworry: 4 of 5 stars to Call for the Dead by John le Carré
strngmagic: Watched Three Days of the Condor for some reason tonight. Not a bad paranoid spy story. Almost felt like an American John le Carré tale.
five_books: One of our most poular authors this year (so far) is...John le Carré.
He is a frequently recommended author on Five Books, with his books turning up again and again in interviews
abt_live: The Night Manager Author John le Carré’s Son Simon Cornwell Reacts To Indian Adaptation, Says He Loved .....Please follow to show support.....
Fuertebrazos: "A documentary is a carefully curated selection of opinions and images that are chosen to advance the documentarian’s narrative...I prefer John le Carré over concoctions that call themselves documentaries." - Edward Jay Epstein
davidcard: 3 of 5 stars to Silverview by John le Carré
amartya12345678: It walks like Le Carre, talks like Le Carre, looks like Le Carre, but it lacks the finesse of a John Le Carre story or adaptation.
A Spy Among Friends (Miniseries): Recap & Ending Explained
americamag: Erskine Childers went from being the John le Carré of his day to a convicted war criminal and nationalist martyr.
Taxicr: Went down a rabbit hole last night and think I'll be reading the John le Carré books this year.
Just have the urge to read about "The Circus" after someone mentioned Smiley yesterday.
kimwalker4: 2 of 5 stars to The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
hjk_daily: What is Harry Jasper Kennedy doing?
Harry is reading Absolute Friends by John Le Carré.
LorrainePezz: Next book is going back to John Le Carre. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Saw the movie already so it’ll be nice to get more details.
Thespacelathe: Been reading a lot of political thrillers recently. Quite like the pace and plot. Never read John le Carre before, and feel now could be the time to rectify this. Any suggestions for a first read?
carbon_arc: PACIFICTION screens Friday and Saturday at 7pm at Carbon Arc Cinema. Tickets still available!
“It suggests John Le Carré by way of David Lynch” -AO Scott, The New York Times
Zinuchi: The Constant Gardener by John le Carré will help you understand this better.
HowToReadBlog: George Smiley Books in order: How to read John le Carré’s series?
mangiotto: My favorite of these Cold War Romantic Hokum flicks is Fred Schepisi's THE RUSSIA HOUSE but even as I say that, I'm noting it's directed by an Aussie from a book by Moscovite John Le Carre. Weird. I also love GORKY PARK which, ditto, no Russkies in sight. So there you have it.
DominicPiper1: Bitter Almonds & Jasmine. Dominic Piper.
"PI Daniel Beckett is like Lee Child's Jack Reacher on steroids; John Le Carré's spies on speed. I devoured it; my best read so far this year."
knifegunpen: In every operation there is an above the line and a below the line. Above the line is what you do by the book. Below the line is how you do the job. — John le Carre
Sophiologist_: Just had a great class discussion on Ivan Illich's "Medical Nemesis," the power of BigPharma, and John le Carré's 'The Constant Gardener.'
InkAshling: 3 of 5 stars to The Secret Pilgrim by John le Carré
ThatNickGraham: John Le Carre’s 'A Legacy of Spies' shows us what happens when history’s unappeasable ghosts force their way into your life and demand the reckoning.
Brief thoughts on a legacy of the master on The Judas Blog:
LandlordLinks: Excerpt,
"We are studying the world of espionage and the deep state. Acclaimed author John le Carré, a former spy, spent his life writing about these hidden power brokers. Most are shadowy figures who encompass a web of entrenched interests within the United States,
GRAPEFRUITKlNG: reading john le carre novels even tho i can’t keep up with the plots
MTWallet888: Call For The Dead by John Le Carre 1961 Hardback with Jacket
MTWallet888: 1963 The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John Le Carre Hardback with Jacket
DominicPiper1: Bitter Almonds & Jasmine. Dominic Piper.
"PI Daniel Beckett is like Lee Child's Jack Reacher on steroids; John Le Carré's spies on speed. I devoured it; my best read so far this year."
ethan_iverson: Have just written up my conclusions about the four early le Carré books:
ijkijKevin: I've been reading twitter way less recently, and reading real books more. The John Le Carre spy books are quite good!
DominicPiper1: Bitter Almonds & Jasmine. Dominic Piper.
"PI Daniel Beckett is like Lee Child's Jack Reacher on steroids; John Le Carré's spies on speed. I devoured it; my best read so far this year."
hjk_daily: What is Harry Jasper Kennedy doing?
Harry is reading A Small Town in Germany by John Le Carré.
BondianCW: A Private Spy audiobook review – the letters of John le Carré
