A pipe packed full of Greene to smoke by the fire (The Quiet American - Graham Greene)

Member Name: mcader

Product:	The Quiet American - Graham Greene
Date:	06/02/09 (33 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Complex...How others mirror ourselves...how we are fickle with our fears of loneliness.

Disadvantages: None really. It's not a thriller, but is masterful and understated.

This book will lull you into a detached necessity to read......

Excellent, forlorn thoughts and observations from ex-pat reporter in troubled Vietnam.....

Decadent, empty, lonely and cynical feelings articulated towards the age gap.....

His wisdom of perspective sees through and past the idealism of the young American Pyle....a part of his own self that is lost and that he is responsible ultimately for murdering.......

His woman is dependent upon him, a fickle sense of need....and he is naturally afraid of losing her to a younger man who will bring him loneliness.

This is the truth behind Desire and Motivation.....the political/personal reasons....Is Phoung keeping him with her pipes...?

It is a vivid and insightful account. The weaknesses of mankind...the conscience we have towards others.....The burden of knowledge, and wisdom and age....

Filled with the drugs of causes and deeds, and yet almost a bid for his old age to come...to bring the resignation from them; a sense of something at least, more simple.

Summary: Resigned, vivid and insightful