Thoughts on these for the next #lmpbc round?
📚 Red Joan is based on a true story.
📚 A Most Wanted Man — read it and would love 💗 to read it again!
I forgot to tag you! @Pogue @TheBookHippie
In memoriam John le Carré. This book is terrific (as all le Carré I've read), and the film almost does the novel justice.
pick4 out of 5 ⭐️
Very much a le Carré spy thriller. If you have read any of his previous work—my favorite being The Spy Who Came In From The Cold—then A Most Wanted Man offers few surprises or deviations from his formula. Do not mistake this comment as a derisive statement about le Carré‘s writing style. I enjoyed this book very much, but just as geopolitics is never a neat and tidy ending, neither is this story—a most enjoyable book nonetheless.
panIt‘s mean to say so because I know that every author puts effort into his work but I‘m really glad that this is over. My guess how it all would end and wasn‘t quite right but almost. So I was bored very quickly because in the plot there is very few action. All is told very sedately. The more time passed, the more annoyed I was.
If there‘s another false bottom that I didn‘t discover then it‘s brilliant, otherwise it‘s boring and foreseeable.
More than 50 % done.
But, oooooohhhhhhh, it‘s dragging. So dragging. I remember that I thought that 6 hours will comparatively be listened to rather fast. Well, I know experience it isn‘t.
The point is that I for quite a while now sense how it all will go – and that‘s why I‘d prefer that the plot would speed up a bit instead of being so sluggish.
I need that weekend so much – so #FriYayIntro here we go:
1. I have none because I feel that set goals will make my hobby a chore and I don‘t like that idea. Even though I hope to read “Metro 2033” and “Metro 2035” and of course all the books that drop in from having been on hold at my library.
2. Die Siedler von Catan
3. Reading in the sun ☀️ on my balcony
4. No and no. I didn‘t even figure what canard they sent on radio and TV this year
2 hours in. It‘s interesting but the different plot lines still feel a bit distant. I‘m not yet having a connection to one of the characters but I remember that it was the same with “The Spy who came in from the Cold” – and then suddenly, 40 minutes before the end Le Carré came up with this resonating moral discourse. So I am expecting something similar here.
May I count this for #24b4Extend even though it‘s not in my set goals, @Andrew65 ❓
“A society changed by terror, in which all – innocent and guilty – are extras to an impenetrable puppet game. In a cleverly spun web of private and political interests, the characters move between lack of conscience and charity, icy calculus and indifference. The threat of Islamist terror is becoming the backdrop for an unscrupulous secret service game.”
Since many of my hold-ons are available at my library I squeeze this into my #24b4Extend.
A Most Wanted Man: A Novel | 
