Oct. 20th, 2019

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

3/5. Cold War British spy . . . hm. It's not a caper. Or a thriller. Let's just say spy novel.

Written in response to James Bond, and I do appreciate how this entire book consists of finding a spy by talking to a lot of people. And how the protagonist is so deliberately desexualized. Oh, and there is a tense scene of library espionage. No, that was sincere, it's tense. But in general, I appreciated this story as an object, but it's not really for me. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to really enjoy a spy novel that isn't also specfic.

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