>reading pic related
>someone says to me that it's airport-bookstore level trash
Was he right?
>>7830202
idk but i loved the spy who came n from the cold
i've never read any spy fiction but i generally hate spy movies
theyre always too impersonal, i never know or care who anybody is and they're full of boring exposition
is that pretty much what to expect from spy fiction?
>>7830258
maybe
i'm reading it right now as my subway read, and i've had 3 professors notice it in my hand and start a 5 minute convo about how much they love it
who even cares though
>>7830202
It's a good type of airport thriller, but yeah that's essentially all.
I cracked out on this author maybe five years ago and while he is a little trashy, I felt like he was pretty engrossing trash. Interrogation/interview scenes have a satisfying tension, and his world has an almost occult glow to it, as if he were writing about magicians and witches rather than spies.
Unfortunately, he follows a very predictable thriller formula and I never got the sense that there's much going on beneath the surface of his books. But it's a pretty, initially very engaging surface.
I've read some straight spy trash, he's not straight trash, buy classy trash. At least that's what I tell myself to feel good about my shit life decisions.
I read the Spy Who Came in from the Cold and I thought it was great, then I read Smiley's People and I felt like I was reading the same book again with the locations and names changed. (I know that's completely out of order.) Then IwatchedTinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and it was the same thing again.