[1rudeboy]

I agree. I start reading something like The Spy who Came in from the Cold or The Looking-Glass War and the next thing I know it's 3:30 am and I'm trying to finish it in one sitting.

[Yanni.Znaio]

And Operation Prime Time made an excellent mini-series of “Smiley’s People” with Alec Guiness playing Smiley.

LeCarre stated in an interview that he couldn’t write about Smiley for several years after that because every time he thought of Smiley, he saw Guiness in his mind’s eye.

[George Smiley]

Done the same thing myself.

But not for a number of years with a LeCarre novel, unfortunately.

Start reading the later stuff and get bored out of my skull.

He wrote better before he started trying to inject his own personal politics into his books.