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Our Man in Havana (Penguin Classics)
by Graham Greene
from Penguin Classics

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• BEWARE!
  I read several of Graham's books when I was young and thought them great. Now at 55 I am not so sure about Greene (I recently reread the Comedians). Most of his books are OK except for too much heavy emotional attachment stuff.
  This book is supposed to be funny but is just plain terrible. For instance what is so funny about things like a policeman who makes human skin cigarette cases? I quit reading it after about 50 pages. I advise you to find something else, life is too short. He must have been... more info

• Greene at his Most Optimistic
  This is the fifth Graham Greene novel I've read, and the first with an even moderately happy ending. A pseudo-spy novel with a pseudo-spy named Wormold, the book is more a meditation on where human allegiance should really be when government and family seem at odds with each other. It's also a fairly quick read (for Greene) that's funny as hell.

• Disappointed
  I read a lot of Graham Greene, and this is the one one of his works that disappointed. Characters were dull and the plot, slow to develop. Also, the technology described seemed very dated in view of today's world.

• a pleasure
  Nice to see this classic in print again. Hitchen's insightful forward adds to the pleasure of reading Greene's wonderful "entertainment" again. If you haven't read it yet, do so now!

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