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John LeCarrie

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  • 24-01-2002 12:57pm
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    scipio_major
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    Currently working my way through LeCarrie's spy novels and I seem to be noticing an annoying trait. From the ones I've read so far (Tailor of Panama, Spy who came in, The honorable schoolboy, "Tailor, tinker, soldier spy"), it seems like he ends everyone with the main character (or at the very least a major 'good' character) dieing in the last ten pages. The first time it was a shock, the second a surprise , the third was expected and fourth was predicted. Is it just me or is this a complete downer and just takes away completly from the excellently written books? Then maybe it is just the ones I've read.

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    Scipio_major


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    Da Bounca
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    "It's better to end with a funeral, that with a wedding"


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    sceptre
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    Read quite a few LeCarre books when I was 12 or 13. Thought well of them but stopped reading them for the reason you've mentioned - bit predictable. Also features the "gullible fool confused by a greedy bad guy who seems good to the protagonist".

    Can't knock them for writing though.


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