cee0d86c1b19f9d24a85e8eab850e572 Book #2 is much shorter and is flying by so far...I never read The English Patient. <p>Book #2 is much shorter and is flying by so far&hellip;I never read The English Patient.</p> 2008-07-28T21:15:35Z 40 410 1 4 2010-03-10T18:10:26Z 62c5704a8d1d594798647aec393d92de Not a good start to the "reading one book per week" as it took me longer than a week to read the first one (I finished it a few days ago) and I had a head start. But it was almost 600 pages. It was a very good book, but at times a little lengthy in the descriptions of certain events. It centers around Magnus Pym, a British spy who (after the death of his father) leaves his wife and job and disappears to his own safe house by the sea to write his life story that he always wanted to write. The British secret service is intent on finding him, as is his wife and the Czech spy he worked with for years. And he is racing to finish his autobiography before they get to him. The Smiley books by Le Carre are still my favorites... <p>Not a good start to the &ldquo;reading one book per week&rdquo; as it took me longer than a week to read the first one (I finished it a few days ago) and I had a head start. But it was almost 600 pages.</p> <p>It was a very good book, but at times a little lengthy in the descriptions of certain events. It centers around Magnus Pym, a British spy who (after the death of his father) leaves his wife and job and disappears to his own safe house by the sea to write his life story that he always wanted to write. The British secret service is intent on finding him, as is his wife and the Czech spy he worked with for years. And he is racing to finish his autobiography before they get to him.</p> <p>The Smiley books by Le Carre are still my favorites&hellip;</p> 2008-07-28T21:12:45Z 39 406 1 4 2010-03-10T18:10:28Z e72a548c3164339b0d192e8729b009d9 The first book in my read one book per week project is _A Perfect Spy_ by John Le Carré. I've read some of his other stuff, really liked _The Spy Who Came In From The Cold_, and thought a spy novel would be a good summer read. It's long, though, at 600 pages... <p>The first book in my read one book per week project is <em>A Perfect Spy</em> by John Le Carré. I've read some of his other stuff, really liked <em>The Spy Who Came In From The Cold</em>, and thought a spy novel would be a good summer read. It&rsquo;s long, though, at 600 pages&hellip;</p> 2008-07-16T22:22:45Z 27 445 1 4 2010-03-10T18:10:24Z