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Alec Guinness as Smiley? I loved Alec Guinness too,(I like him in anything!) but what part did Donald Pleasance play? He was great too! I can't believe LeCarre was trying to get away from Alec Guinness. I prefer to think that the cold war thing was out of date..... Oh! Don't laugh too...

Oh! Exactly! Hi Peder This is exactly what I was saying before about Le Carre! I can take or leave Sean Connery but do love Smiley and his people!! I will go back again and try to pick up where I left off... What was the first one he wrote after the Cold War? I have a feeling it was...

no, it was Perdido Street... on this one This is the quote...

Le Carre continued... I will take you up on your invitation to the Le Carre forum but I have just realised that the reason I stopped reading is quite obvious!! Would it be the end of the Cold War? I seem to remember reading something and thinking it isn't the same when the spy isn't out in...

Hi Robert and thanks for the welcome! Lord of the Rings! It is like Bob Marley, in the literary world. There is nowhere on earth where it isn't known!! Well, ok maybe I'm exaggerating! But I have known people from lots of countries who have read it. I haven't read any Clive Cussler yet but...

Gmm Oh! Yes! I agree! 100 years of solitude is one of those rare books that make me wonder if I would ever understand it completely. There is something new each time I read it, though that is not often enough. Another favourite of mine is Love in the Time of Cholera. I found this one so...

Thanks for this Mari! I studied 19th century women's literature, should have been studying Moby Dick obviously! Much more fun! It's been a while since I read it and I WILL go back and read it again... PS Is it slightly infantile to suggest that maybe the title is a bit of a giveaway? :D

oops! What genre is Trollope? I'm not sure she comes under any polite genre for me???

Joanna Trollope novels I have a strange relationship with Joanna Trollope. A few of my best friends read her, smile and say what a good read she is. When we discuss her, I sneer and call her twee! :D I wait for the day they ask me how I know so much about her... I secretly buy up her books...

Some of my replies seem not to be posted... I have been replying to all messages but some don't seem to be showing... If this is the case, please accept my apologies and if you have any ideas on how to solve this problem, please let me know?

Hi Peder! Thanks for the welcome and... I DID love John LeCarre for a time but somehow stopped reading him, I don't remember why... Henning Mankell? I will check that name, I don't think I know it. Any particular recommendations? I must say that I am really enjoying Lawrence Block for...

Hi Stewart Did you say you replied here about Perdido Street? I can't find anything

Sorry! I could have sworn I responded to a post of yours in this forum! Sorry if I made a mistake!

Can anyone tell me why Asne Seierstad had to leave Norway and go to Kabul to find an abusive husband and father?

So, young and yet so cynical! How is it possible to overglorify a moth hunt? I would have thought that glorifying it would be difficult enough!! Suspend disbelief, see the moth and other characters as allegorical and other literary cliches. I agree that it would make a good film though! :D

PS How did you get into Mahfouz? I wonder if I would have read him if I had not been going to Cairo and looking for Egyptian authors...

Midaq Alley is the one about the prostitute, the gay guy, the beggar and.... Right? I read it some time ago in the early 90s, so it's a bit hazy now. They made a film of it I believe? Set in Mexico or somewhere around there, I suppose because post revolution Egypt would NEVER admit to the...

What! No China Mieville on the lists at ALL!!?? Absolutely the very best sci fi novel written in a very long time! I give Perdido Street Station by China Mieville 9.5 ... Only because there is always room for improvement!

merit in all genres KristoCat, I think you are right about finding good in all genres. I don't think that, for me at least, it's about being easy to please. I think it's exactly about keeping an open mind and being prepared for pleasant surprises. As to genre movies... I think this is...

Auster in UK Hi again CDA (from new member intro!! :) ) I am in Scotland and I know and love Paul Auster! (Of course, I am not currently in a book shop but can often be found there!) I have only read a few till now: The New York Trilogy was my first, leading to The Book of Illusions and...