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A Severed Head
Depth, Wit, and Language: After completing this read, I retrospectively notice three primary functions that make it worthy of five stars. First, the language flows together to construct a cohesive work that captures the reader and doesn't let go. Second, [... more]
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An Accidental Man
Humour with a thick black edge: An Accidental man is a delicious read if you enjoy the tongue in cheek writing of Nancy Mitfod and Evelyn Waugh. It is essentially a story of an incestuous upper middle class English family and thier many friends and one [... more]
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The Book and the Brotherhood: A Story about Love and ...
A Chorus-line of Snails: Iris Murdoch's "The Book and the Brotherhood" is a marvelously droll novel of manners that has the audacity to explore the philosophical and moral issues that have effectively paralyzed a group of `60s-era Oxford [... more]
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The Message to the Planet
Philosophy and Love: I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I like this book at least as well as The Bell and the Sandcastle, and very possibly more. One of the characters in this book asks where ordinary morality is, when what is called for in the [... more]
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The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (Penguin Books)
Murdoch on love and betrayal: The Sacred and Profane Love Machine describes the spectacular unravelling of two families at the hands of Blaise Gavender. The first family is his own "legitimate" one, comprising his wife Harriet and son David. [... more]
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Jackson's Dilemma
Puck and Ariel are hard at work.: A perfectly Shakespearian comedy. Three, practically four, weddings like in As You Like It (four) or A Midsummer Night's Dream (three). The threads are so entangled that everyone is about to marry the wrong matches. [... more]
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Under the Net
Under the net of language lies the truth: In his early period (specifically, in "Tractatus"), the Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein argued that the "net" of language both separates us from and connects us to the world: [... more]
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The Unicorn
a very readable Murdoch novel: The Unicorn reads easily, with a plot that the average reader can outline and follow: a young woman is hired as a governess to a remote, mysterious household on the English coastline -- Murdoch did have an enormous [... more]
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The Nice and the Good
An Exploration of Self-Myths: Murdoch explores how people's actions are driven by their self-images and personal mythologies. The vanities, fears or ambitions that dominate the way our lives unfold vary all over the place - from the need of the [... more]
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The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
very surprising: Like to think i know the Malvern Hills et al. areas of Glouchestershire pretty well but even so this book completely took me by surprise. The insights and life lessons throughout were unobtrusive and the subtlety of putting all these [... more]
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A Fairly Honourable Defeat (Penguin Twentieth-Century ...
A more than fairly satisfying read: Brilliant! This novel has everything I look for in a truly great book: complex characters, deft plotting, luminous prose, and profound insight into the human condition. Iris Murdoch knew what it was to be human. She [... more]
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The Good Apprentice
murdoch's genius: This is one of the three superb long novels Murdoch published in the second half of the 80s. The characters are brilliantly drawn, especially the psychiatrist Thomas, his friend the ambitious, talented but frustrated Harry Cuno, and [... more]
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