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    <body><![CDATA[Admittedly, I hadn't finished the book yet at the time I wrote the below -- I was about halfway through -- but since I've seen the movie, I feel confident enough to extrapolate. Barring, of course, one of those Sense and Sensibility &quot;Willoughby's back -- and he's DRUNK?!&quot; surprises. Someho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27733391">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana is a delightful farce that manages to be serious and laugh out loud funny at the same time. It follows the unfortunate Wormold, a British vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana whose shortage of funds finds him willing to accept an offer to join the British Intelligence ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24178592">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Given the supposed military intelligence that led to the war in Iraq, it's tempting to look to books such as &quot;Our Man in Havana,&quot; Graham Greene's comic spy novel about the Cold War, for parallels to our current situation. (In the book, drawings of pieces of a household vacuum cleaner are p...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12898663">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Jim Wormold est un paisible vendeur d'aspirateurs de La Havane, en cette période de Guerre froide et de début de la révolution castriste.<br/><br/> Et Wormold a un problème : sa fille, Milly, qu'il adore, est à la fois catholique et extrêmement dépensière au regard des modestes revenus de ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66525929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Acquired this for free at some time or another.  Picked it up after judging it by its cover.  Very hip 1960 edition with goofy illustration and shady looking spy-type on the cover.  I was expecting a great read, and that's what I got!  The binding was about to fall apart, but it held up for a 3 day ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52724785">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This Graham Greene classic tells the story of Jim Wormold, who sells vacuum cleaners in pre-Castro Havana.  He's a simple man, struggling to support a materialistic teenage daughter on his own.  When the British Secret Service approaches him about being their &quot;man in Havana&quot;, he can't turn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56143604">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this comedic espionage story, Mr. Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, is inexplicably hired by MI6 to keep tabs on events in Cuba.  Batista is still in charge of the island, but communist rebels are rumored to be in the mountains.  Upon the advice of a friend, Wormold makes up phantom a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73860778">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[So alarmingly funny.  Why do we enjoy the rise, fall and redemption of the piddling spirit of Mr. Wormold?  Because it's precisely that sort of sloshing simpleness we want to be the most indomitable of all types of man, because those persons are vulnerable to only one sort of greatness: love.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/72016998">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="71135724">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fun read from a wonderful novelist. This is easily the funniest of Greene's books that I've read, the plot reading like something out of a middle-aged man's fantastical nightmares: the British government recruits a Havana vacuum salesman to spy for them, even though he knows nothing about espionag...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71135724">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[atmosphere is very big for me in a novel, and Greene hits a home run with me for that with Our Man... . he builds setting and sets mood with economy and wit, and yet manages to build a clear and vivid image in the reader's imagination. he builds character depth subtly and equally as economically, ye...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66954990">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good read. Sort of a police/detective/spy novel. Greene pokes fun at the world of spies and at the genre of detective/spy writing. <br/>Wormold, a British vacuum cleaner salesman in the Havana of the 1950s, somehow gets tangled up with the British secret service as a spy. Instead of performing his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57111943">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56256944">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[graham greene is my favorite &quot;second tier&quot; author.  that means he's up there with faulkner, but it'd be heresey to put him in such a high place.  this is not one of the exemplary pieces of writing that he's produced though.  this is clearly a money-making espionage novel.  it is labeled &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56256944">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Our Man in Havana&quot; by Graham Greene is about a vacuum cleaner salesman in Cuba (Wormold) who has a beautiful daughter (Milly) and is approached by a spy (Hawthorne) to do some work for the British. Wormold takes the charge and the money and in doing so, makes up Top Secret information. Th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78621529">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a bit less introspective than &quot;Brighton Rock,&quot; but the plot is no less suspenseful or intriguing. It concerns Wormold, an English ex-pat in Havana who takes on the mantle of secret agent as a way to supplement his meagre income as vacuum cleaner salesman. He is content to fals...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46988701">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a pretty great send up of spy thrillers, seemingly the inspiration for such awesomeness as North By Northwest and The Man Who Knew Too Little. MI6 recruits a vacuum cleaner salesman to be their agent in Havana, and he accepts to pay for his daughter's horse. But he doesn't know any intellige...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71381569">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This story must have been the inspiration for LeCarre's <em>The Tailor of Panama</em>. The main character, Wormold, is a bit of a shlub in pre-Castro 1958 Cuba, an expatriate English vacuum-cleaner salesman in Havana with a spoiled teenage daughter and a failing business (his company's new vacuum model is th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65877091">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A rather ordinary man with a sense of decency barely scraping a living as a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana in the 1950s, in a rare reckless moment grasps the opportunity to improve his circumstances by becoming a spy.  He muddles through a series of dangerous, but at the same time hilarious, expe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76354790">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me a month to read Greene’s “entertainment” about Havana on the eve of revolution. It took me a month not because I didn’t like it, but because I was busy. It was little bit like watching an interesting television program one minute at a time, if that program were made by a known com...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69436340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Graham Greene is a legend. He writes so well that I sometimes find it impossible to believe that someone could be so gifted. This is not his best novel. It starts out crackingly but then kind of meanders onto a rather benign finish. Hence the 4 stars only (probably 3.5 would be more accurate). He br...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56584037">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Drawing a cheque is not nearly so simple an operation in an American bank as in an English one.  American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.  'Well,' he seems to ex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69856579">more...</a>]]></body>
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