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 | The Constant Gardener | The young, beautiful and idealistic wife of a foreign office chap based in Nairobi is brutally murdered and both the local police and Kenyan police appear unable to solve anything. But it turns out to be a big conspiracy by big pharma who were running some kind of drug trials on unsuspecting locals. I think. But then I stopped reading it. Categories: non-speculative, non-speculative, thriller |
| by John LeCarre | ||
| Score: 6 | ||
| Published: 2001 | ||
| Read: March 19th 2022 |
Comments
John said
I struggle with the style I think. Seems very long-winded, dry and stuffy. Controversial I know, but I gave up about half-way through. I will have to watch the movie to see how it turns out.
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. - Doris Lessing