To: Darkwolf377
Yes Le Carre has certainly become a great bore as well as now being very Anti-American. I think I saw some sort of interview he gave and he really dug in on us since 9-11.
I no longer read him and his books of the last 10 to 15 years are terribly boring. His creative spark is gone and since the Cold War is now gone he can't bring back George Smiley anymore as Smiley is now about 99 years old according to the chronology.
To: Captain Peter Blood
I think he's a case of someone who started out an entertainer, then bought all those reviews calling him an Artist. Not that popular novels can't be art; I just think LeCarre and others have fallen into the self-consciousness trap. His novels still get great reviews, but I've abandoned two of them from boredom and won't try again. I'll take Donald Westlake, thanks.
18 posted on
03/14/2005 8:50:31 PM PST by
Darkwolf377
(Rs move icebergs out of the way; Ds throw deck chairs off the Titanic.)
To: Captain Peter Blood
His creative spark is gone and since the Cold War is now gone he can't bring back George Smiley anymore as Smiley is now about 99 years old according to the chronology. You can't write historical novels set in a past time? Since when was this law passed? No prequels? Nothing?
20 posted on
03/14/2005 8:52:08 PM PST by
FreedomCalls
(It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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