
“Smiley shrugged it all aside, distrustful as ever of the standard shapes of human motive, and settled instead for a picture of one of those wooden Russian dolls that open up, revealing one person inside the other, and another inside him. Of all men living, only Karla had seen the last little doll inside Bill Haydon. When was Bill recruited, and how? Was his right-wing stand at Oxford a pose, or was it paradoxically the state of sin from which Karla had summoned him to grace?” (p 316)
My Top 10
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- The Descendants
- Hugo
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II
- The Ides of March
- My Week with Marilyn
- Jane Eyre
- Moneyball
- Incendies
- The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
note: A solid Top 5 and Top 10. (more…)