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charlyvi

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24. John la Carre

Reply to Laura PourMeADrink (Original post)

Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:50 PM

Mar 2017

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.

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What book did you savor, staying up late to read, yet hoping you wouldn't reach the end? [View all] Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 OP

"Poisonwood Bible" and "Pillars of the Earth" ret5hd Mar 2017 #1

Oh Poisonwood Bible was a great book. mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #4

Stones From the River mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #11

Gonna get Poisonwood Bible, thanks. I absolutely love Ken Follett. Takes Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #18

The Poisonwoid preacher mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #26

A Suitable Boy elfin Mar 2017 #2

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - in fact - all three of them. pangaia Mar 2017 #3

The Kite Runner mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #5

Great book... pangaia Mar 2017 #7

Yup! Steig Larsson rules! longship Mar 2017 #10

yeah the movies were really good. pangaia Mar 2017 #12

Tom Robbins jodymarie aimee Mar 2017 #6

several gopiscrap Mar 2017 #8

ALL the Sidney Sheldon books... TheDebbieDee Mar 2017 #9

CATCH-22 pangaia Mar 2017 #13

Ahh....one of those books that you had to read and didn't read in high school. Thanks Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #21

I read it in grad school-- 1968, shortly after it came out.. pangaia Mar 2017 #25

absolutely - must have read it at least 3 times... bagelsforbreakfast Mar 2017 #30

Something Wicked This Way Comes-Ray Bradbury. 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #14

Kudos - perhaps my smaller brain? John LeCarre too pedantic - based on the little I have tried? Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #19

'The Spy Who Came In from The Cold' kept me up all night!! pangaia Mar 2017 #36

I should try it again - think it was A Perfect Spy - just couldn't Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #39

It is probably one of the easier to follow... pangaia Mar 2017 #42

This message was self-deleted by its author 58Sunliner Mar 2017 #43

Cutting For Stone and All The Light You Cannot See. rainy Mar 2017 #15

Wow - great quote. Perhaps it is the difference between someone who is Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #20

All the light You Cannot See mainstreetonce Mar 2017 #35

Greg Iles Natchez Burning series riverbendviewgal Mar 2017 #16

J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings Trilogy ... DreamGypsy Mar 2017 #17

Have to share this with my sister in law who is a huge fan of Lord of Rings. What a great Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #23

Me too! shenmue Mar 2017 #27

Jeeze I read it in... 1966- Fifty ONE years ago. pangaia Mar 2017 #37

All the Game of Thrones Series. OregonBlue Mar 2017 #22

John la Carre charlyvi Mar 2017 #24

As an adult happy feet Mar 2017 #28

The Agony and the Ecstacy by Irving Stone. justhanginon Mar 2017 #29

No Name by Wilkie Collins... A female Count of Monte Cristo with a feminist edge...in the 1800s bagelsforbreakfast Mar 2017 #31

Dragonwatch just came out. Hugo24601 Mar 2017 #32

Stephen Kings "It", ....and most of everything else he ever wrote. Jack-o-Lantern Mar 2017 #33

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #34

good points ! What is Last Stand about? Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #40

A gentle, slowly built love story... 3catwoman3 Mar 2017 #41

Sounds interesting. Do you like WW2 stories/drama/movies ? One of my all time favorite Laura PourMeADrink Mar 2017 #45

Two of my favorite books are Winds of War and ... 3catwoman3 Apr 2017 #46

WATERSHIP DOWN pangaia Mar 2017 #38

"Earth Abides"--George R. Stewart. Published 1949. In college I started it and couldn't put it raccoon Mar 2017 #44