The Double Life of John Le Carré

Absolutely. I had the extraordinary pleasure of picking up, on a whim, the novel The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway. Unaware of his father's prestige and budding recognition as an author in his own right, I found the book itself to be a lucid and gripping read the entire way through.

Hate to sound like an advertisement, but I consider it to be the most fun I've had with a story in a long, long time.

Maybe he can write, but it didn't look like he could tell much of a story.

I found the piece to be thin, lacking much substance and failing totally to fulfil the promise he made to the reader at the start, "The Double Life...". I left unsatisfied and feeling like it was no more than a puff piece to promote the biography -- nothing more than a thinly veiled ad.

My time was wasted.