Just finished reading Graham Greene's "The Quiet American" for the second time. (I saw the movie a few years ago but didn't think much of it.) The story takes place in Vietnam in the early 1950's during the French occupation. Since anyone reading this can probably google better than I can, I'm not going to give a synopsis or analyze it. I'm long out of school and not getting paid so my analysis would only be for the most part, "i liked it" or "i didn't like it". That criterion was good enough for Anton Chekov, so it's good enough for me. In my humble opinion, GG, who died in 1991, has been one of the most underrated novelists. I thought I had read all of his novels (23 according to one source) but missed one from 1929 called "The Man Within". It's on my "to-read" list. Greene's books are generally in the range of 200 - 300 pages. He tells a good story without a lot of fluff. His short stories are also worth reading.
Read "The Man Within". It was his first published novel and far inferior to his later works.
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