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I am reading 'A Murder of Quality' by John le Carre. I like that it's a very old fashioned whodunit, and there's a lot in it about the English class system that sounds outdated but I worry is really how our ruling class consider people. A lot of descriptions of people concentrate on their accent, and associated mannerisms associated with their class or where they come from. The entire book is centred on a fictional private school that is supposed to be Eton. The traditions and mindset of the place and how people who either teach or are students there are very alien to normal folk. Most of the current politicians that have made the UK a shithole went to Eton, so it's good to have an insight into their thinking. It's the second book in the George Smiley series, the first two books are whodunits, after this they turns into a much more realistic series about British post-WW2 spycraft. 'Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy' is the 5th book, if you've seen that movie.
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