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Ep 544 - Our Man in Havana, by Graham Greene (w/ Anne Bogel from What Should I Read Next?)

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I've Never Read a Bond, but I Did Work for Me

I was struck by the like, spy trope of they go into a bathroom and like, have a conversation with water running. I think that it's very tropy spy behavior, because otherwise he can't lampoon it, i guess. And it is over tha tat completely the top. Nobody has any nobody has any preconceived notions about how spies should act,. They do get the secrecy and the drinkingso, you know, some ingredients are in place already. But yet, we get these little interludes in, like, the home office in london, usually with hawthorne and the guy whom he's reporting to. This part of the book, i did work for

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