The Looking Glass War
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Journal Entry 2 by Cassandra2020 at The Glencorse Centre ✔️ in Auchendinny, Scotland United Kingdom on Thursday, February 8, 2018
Released 6 yrs ago (2/7/2018 UTC) at The Glencorse Centre ✔️ in Auchendinny, Scotland United Kingdom
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Released to obcz
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Retrieved from obcz
Journal Entry 4 by Cassandra2020 at Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on Saturday, December 8, 2018
Released 5 yrs ago (12/9/2018 UTC) at Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom
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Bringing to the Old Gang meetup, pretty sure this is on someones wishlist but if no one wants it I will leave it on the obcz shelf. It's on the right hand side of the Café Bar on a window sill.
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Although this book is registered at www.bookcrossing.com, you don't have to be a member. It's perfectly OK to just take the book and enjoy it. Of course, if you can visit the website and let us know that you've picked it up, that would be even better - you don't even have to join, you can add your comments anonymously - you can also post your review when you've read it, then return it or pass it on to someone else.
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Picked up at meetup, thank you!
Well-written as ever by Le Carre, I felt this acerbic novel suffered from a lack of emotional drama as pretty quickly you realise that all these characters so are awful in their own way that you don't really care about any of them!
What Le Carre accidentally did when writing The Looking Glass War in the 1960s was accidentally produce a metaphor for the current Conservative Government in my opinion :-). There's a group of (mostly) low calibre spies obsessed with recreating WW2 glories. Obsessed by their quest for honour and establishment perks (such as a chauffeur-driven car) they fail to apply any critical thought or self-reflection to the situation unfolding around them. Their own superiority as compared to foreigners or other sections of the British establishment is taken for granted. Errors are shrugged off, difficult questions are ignored, and a spirit of patriotic gung ho overrides all common sense. All this is bound to result in tragedy - but who will end up its greatest victim(s)???
What Le Carre accidentally did when writing The Looking Glass War in the 1960s was accidentally produce a metaphor for the current Conservative Government in my opinion :-). There's a group of (mostly) low calibre spies obsessed with recreating WW2 glories. Obsessed by their quest for honour and establishment perks (such as a chauffeur-driven car) they fail to apply any critical thought or self-reflection to the situation unfolding around them. Their own superiority as compared to foreigners or other sections of the British establishment is taken for granted. Errors are shrugged off, difficult questions are ignored, and a spirit of patriotic gung ho overrides all common sense. All this is bound to result in tragedy - but who will end up its greatest victim(s)???
Journal Entry 7 by Heaven-Ali at Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on Saturday, December 19, 2020
Thank you Susie, looking forward to reading le Carre for the first time.