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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing novel. I was a le Carre fan coming in, but this book's explorations of identity and morality blew my mind while simultaneously blowing up lots of other stuff. It's a story about Zionists, Palestinians, and bombs. And love and identity and morality. It's complex as hell; the identity stuff...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70569476">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this novel extremely disturbing, and the movie version starring Diane Keaton even more so. Perhaps it's because I'm half-Jewish, and family discussions regularly circle back to Israeli/Palestinian politics. The basic scenario in the book is that Mossad are concerned about a successful series...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56396416">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;This was my first LeCarre book (although I enjoyed the film of “The Constant Gardener”), and I am not really big into spy thrillers, but this book was more intelligent, philosophical, and psychologically probing than I anticipated, in addition to being the heart-racing page-turner that I w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8901542">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[By no means a bad novel but very confusing and convulated. Some things don't make sense. How does Charlie fall in love with a man she has never met? And it is permamenently unclear which side she is operating on because at the end she suceeds at bombing a university but also at finding a wanted terr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62444834">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love le Carre. Finding a book of his that I haven't read is always exciting and sad--I'm always afraid it'll be the last one. This one, though...meh. It feels a little heavy-handed: lots of explaining rather than showing. It feels very...earnest. <br/><br/>I'm going to finish it, of course. It's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41168458">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting, thought-provoking and definitely a page-turner.  I really wanted to get to the end to see what happened.<br/>On the minus side, Le Carré is VERY wordy and some passages just go on..and on..and on.  And I had a bit of trouble with Charlie.  I don't find it totally impossible that a gir...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74378226">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this for educational purposes and it came highly recommended as a fictional work of espionage in the Middle East. Not much has changed and I just didn't love it as a novel or as a fictional tale with a historical background/battleground. The Constant Gardener was a much better read.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this up from the laundry room of my apartment building, where people leave books they want to give to other people. I have never read any of Le Carre's books before, although I very much enjoyed the movie of The Constant Gardner and have meant to check out his books (since books are almost ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41671915">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[After reading this, I can see why John Le Carre has always garnered such raves. This was written 25 years ago, but what it says about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the generally incompetent government response to it ring woefully true today. Great characterizations and suspense.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another in le Carre's consistently high-quality output.  This one about a rogue, British case officer, set in Hong Kong.  Contains an amusing dig at the CIA (as seen through the eyes of the British service).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this not too long after 9/11. It gave me some insight into the workings of terrorism and the people who get involved and why they do.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Little Drummer Girl]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wonder what the appeal of this writer is?  I am struggling with this book.  I find the book boring at times.  Will I finish it???]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[overall i really liked it.  le carre's writing is strong, which is no different than the other books i have read of his.  and once again he does a great job posing and developing the question inherent in both espionage and terrorsim or violent acts of retribution, which is &quot;am i any more moral ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9789425">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The greatest novel of this genre that I have ever read, and I used to read a bunch of this stuff.  They made a fucking terrible movie of this book that was the worst casting of a movie outside of <em>The Bonfire of the Vanities</em>. The book is brilliant and Le Carre certainly did his homework. I had just f...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6212755">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I learn how best to develop characters in fiction writing. The author does not force the reader into accepting a character but instead seems to invite the reader to get to know the characters particularly the key ones such as Charlie, Marty and Joseph. Sure Charlie, one of the key characters, appear...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11434659">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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