four, definitely four stars. how could i not read iris murdoch earlier?
Here's the first thing I love about [b:The Sea, The Sea:|11229|The Sea, the Sea|Iris Murdoch|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1302898449s/11229.jpg|1410491] its title. Isn't it wonderful? Imagine how boring it would have looked on a shelf if it had just been called "The Sea." But with that...
Some time ago, in class, one of my two English teachers was talking. I don't usually pay attention to my English teachers - especially because they have nothing interesting to say. So, as per usual, my eyes were on a book, one of my ears was on my colleagues and the other one was spying on the teach...
Insufferable, hateful narrator
One of Murdoch's best. Subtle, witty, profound, moving.
Truth be told, I was scared of the book. Scared of its length, scared I might not like it enough to finish it (I'm very frustrated when I can't finish books - I always feel it's my fault).Thank goodness Murdoch really knows how to write, I actually loved reading "The Bell" a couple of years ago and...
Of course Iris wants to leave too.http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/the-sea-the-sea-by-irish-murdoch-or-what-is-wrong-with-the-booker/------------------------For technical reasons I am required to add:rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb rhubarb...
Sigrid Undset, Marguerite Duras, Marguerite Yourcenar, Pearl S. Buck, Elsa Morante, Grazia Deledda, Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing, Toni Morrison, Banana Yoshimoto, Elfriede Jelinek. It's time to confess that I've never read anything by all of them.(Saying nothing about poetry. May Emily Dickinson...
Charles Arrowby is the most pompous, self-absorbed, idiotic, misogynist protagonist I've ever encountered. Yet, he's so charming that I was pleasantly horrified to read about his abusive behavior. Written as a proposed diary/memoir, the story reveals two sides of him. We read his extensive self-refl...
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