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The Bathtub Spy (2000)

by Tom Rachman(Favorite Author)

3.36 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: Feel like adding this to my "Read in 2013" shelf is cheating since it is only 15 pages long, but whatever. I love Tom Rachman. I like how he builds these really sad and beautiful characters. Although this story was too short for me to really fall in love with too much about it, it was nice vignette and made me want him to start writing his second novel quickly. And read "The Imperfectionists" again.
review 2: Novella featuring Paul Tregwynt, an itinerant,middle aged, English teacher who wanders Europe and the middle east after loosing his one love to an airplane crash. His linguistic skills garner him a job offer in the intelligence service. He has an interesting housing arrangement with an elderly lady where while he is buying her house, she can continue... more to live in it until she dies. Every thing is loose and laid back including his boss, Wayne, who plays solitaire instead of actually accomplishing any intelligence analysis. He also neglects to forward any recordings to his team to translate. Paul spends his evenings in a hot bath reading French literature, something he has to concentrate on as he hasn't read French since school. Wayne starts to lend Paul books giving him nightly reading assignments against Paul's wishes. Paul is amazed as each book is progressively better. Then Wayne is fired. Wayne continues to give Paul assignments which oddly enough, Paul completes even though against his desires. Then the strange story ends??? What is the point? less

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