Entertainment For Lively Minds
Freebie alert
Posted by Uncle Monty on 22 September 2011 - 3:55pm.
In case you're interested - the Guardian appears to be offering free John Le Carre audiobooks every day this week.
Today's is the Constant Gardener (the only book of his I've read, and very good it was too), but there have been Tinker Tailor..., Smiley's People and others. You need to sign up to the aduiobook service, but it's easy and free, and I guess will give you something like 100 hours of spy heaven for those long car/train journeys.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/competition/2011/sep/22/free-audiobook-d...
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Having just downloaded it
I have realised I don't have necessarily long journey. 17.1 hours according to itunes. Any suggestions for a suitable journey?
Radio 4's adaptation of Tinker Tailor
... was three hours. Rather good it was to. DM me an email address I'll get it over to you if you fancy. Simon Russell Beale was Smiley and he was good.
Oh, and thanks for the
tip Monty. How very rude of me to forget. I have just started reading Smiley's People as it happens but suspect that I should be reading Le Carre in some kind of order. Any thoughts?
I don't know much
but I'm pretty sure Tinker Tailor was before Smiley's People. But perhaps a Le Carre buff can tell you more than that...
This should answer all your questions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Le_Carre#Bibliography
Stop right now
Read Tinker, Tailor... and then read The Honourable Schoolboy before embarking on Smiley's People.
If you know how Smiley's People ends it will mar your enjoyment of the others. I know to an extent, as someone blurted it out when I was reading The Honourable Schoolboy.
Thanks Carl
and I've stopped at page 27. Will now search out the other two.
I managed to download Tinker Tailor
using the code tinker1
Thanks for the heads up Unc