The Honourable Schoolboy
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3.6 • 7 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
George Smiley is one of the most brilliantly realised characters in British fiction. Bespectacled, tubby, eternally middle-aged and deceptively ordinary, he has a mind like a steel trap and is said to possess ‘the cunning of Satan and the conscience of a virgin’. Smiley, now head of the Circus, must rebuild trust in the shattered organisation. He is also determined to destroy his nemesis, Karla, and his spy networks. He recruits Jerry Westerby, occasional spy, occasional news reporter, full-time romantic - the Honourable Schoolboy of the title - and despatches him to the Far East, where, amidst the corruption and decay of former colonies, a new battle is about to begin... Starring the award-winning Simon Russell Beale as Smiley, and with a star cast including Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Steed and Anna Chancellor, this gripping dramatisation perfectly captures the atmosphere of le Carré’s intricate, intriguing novel, the second in the Karla trilogy.
Customer Reviews
It’s cheap for reason.
I purchased this the night before a big road trip and thought, “$6 for 2hr 57 minutes of John Le Carré? Not bad.” Listening to it though, the first thing that becomes apparent is that it’s a teleplay, not an audiobook; they refrain from reading most paragraphs with crucial character details, plot development and stage direction, opting instead to jump from conversation to conversation with little thread to connect them.
Another thing readily apparent, the audio isn’t clear. Most of the dialogue and what stage direction there is, is muffled and plagued with audio scratches which make it difficult, nay impossible to understand. In the end, I can recognize maybe 7/12 words in a sentence and kind of piece together what’s happening from there.