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To: skinowski who started this subject	1/19/2003 10:36:09 AM
From: skinowski	of 17055

Mr. Le Carre is joining all those many Hollywood stars in providing evidence that the same person can be very talented and accomplished in their chosen field - and yet, may be fully capable of being a complete moron outside of it… Le Carre is an excellent writer – at least, so I thought – until I read his latest paranoid (well-written) garbage novel about Pharmaceutical companies running great murderous international conspiracies. The article below, with its occasional great Le Carreesque turn of phrase, is remarkable for its absence of insight where it concerns the American side of the equation – as well as for its scrambled view of the larger picture. The article is emotionalist – President Bush and his advisors are “conspirators”’, American troops are sent into battle by a “religious cant”, the war against Iraq “…was planned years before bin Laden struck, but it was he who made it possible.” There are many more “pearls” like these. For many years I thought that John Le Carre was a great writer who just happened to write spy novels. Unfortunately, it appears that his greatness didn’t survive the Berlin Wall. timesonline.co.uk

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