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63 out of 63 people found this review helpful.

The Search for Control in an Exotic World

Date of Review:  Dec 4, 2004
The Bottom Line: A_most_interesting_and_compelling_read_if_you: 1)are interested in Vietnam; 2)are interested in knowing what Americans are busy doing in Irak; 3)want to read an absolute classic.
Review: "The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail" (Jarrett, The House of Gold). Exoticism is mystery, seduction, escape... the unknown. In Graham Greene's novel, The Quiet American, exoticism is expressed through people,...
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  4.0

by: Theabee
Recommended to buy: Yes

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A rich and clever plot eerily...
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The second remake of this movie with...
 
48 out of 48 people found this review helpful.

Graham Greene's The Quiet American: Watch Out For Those Quiet Ones!

Date of Review:  Sep 10, 2006
The Bottom Line: Fowler writes of another American: He was like an emblematic statue of all I thought I hated in America--as ill-designed as the Statue of Liberty and as meaningless.
Review: Maybe you know this already, but people who disarm (or annoy) you with their quiet, innocent, polite ways may be the most dangerous kind of people you meet. If that doesn't make sense to you, I'll give you an example with the astute help of Graham...
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  5.0

by: jankp
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22 out of 22 people found this review helpful.

Life is a tale told by an idiot--full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Date of Review:  May 15, 2008
The Bottom Line: This is another To Kill a Mocking Bird another book that will change your perspective. Its message will change your life. It will never leave you.
Review: Graham Green's The Quite American is one of those rare, indescribable pieces of literature that works its inexplicable magic on the reader leaving him or her with a lasting sense of having experienced, not just read, something truly great. The novel...
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  5.0

by: countess_eva
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17 out of 17 people found this review helpful.

A Quiet Book filled with Hidden Meaning

Date of Review:  Dec 17, 2002
The Bottom Line: While this is great book to read, I would only recommend it to those that are particularly interested in history.
Review: This review reveals major details about the book's plot.

Graham Greene's The Quiet American, is a view of life in Vietnam during the French-Indochina War. Greene's points throughout the novel focus on man's disregard for other human beings...
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  4.0

by: cesva
Recommended to buy: Yes

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It is a rather short novel.
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Hard to get into without a background...
 
10 out of 10 people found this review helpful.

Vietnam before Americanization

Date of Review:  Nov 10, 2001
The Bottom Line: Even if you have absolutely no interest in Vietnam at all, this novel is an interesting read for its characters and plot. I strongly recommend The Quiet American
Review: The Quiet American by Graham Greene is a terrific novel that ties together the political situation in Vietnam in the early 1950s with an involving fictional plot. There are three main characters in the book. Thomas Fowler is a middle-aged British...
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  5.0

by: luckyluke7
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful.

Old Saigon told with class

Date of Review:  Oct 16, 2000
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The Quiet American is a classic novel that is best read "in situ", that is in the present, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)to get its full meaning, flavor and significance .It is set in the period of the French colonial involvement in Vietnam and...
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  4.0

by: zazen1
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Well written and involving
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Best read on location
 
8 out of 8 people found this review helpful.

A pipe packed full of Greene to smoke by the fire

Date of Review:  Apr 28, 2005
Review: 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...
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  5.0

by: adrian_mco
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Complex...How others mirror...
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None really. It's not a thriller, but...
 
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful.

The US in Vietnam

Date of Review:  Dec 9, 1999
Review: Graham Greene provides a scathing and accurate assessment of the psychology of America's involvement in the Vietnam conflict. Although this work is a fictional one, Greene has captured the utter blindness with which American policy makers approached...
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by: wordsmith
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