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Jim Murdoch

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born
May 04, 1959

gender
male

place of birth
Glasgow, The United Kingdom

website

genre
Literature & Fiction

influences
Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Keith Waterhouse, Douglas Adams, Franz Kafka

member since
August 2007


about this author

I was born in Glasgow in 1959 and although throughout my life I have lived in most parts of Scotland I have found myself continually drawn back to the "friendly city" where I now live quietly on the outskirts with my wife.

My writing career began at school and I continue to write and publish poetry to this day. During the nineties I experienced a length period of writer's block - it lasted two years - then one day I sat down and started writing. Twenty-one pages left I had the bare bones of a novel, Living with the Truth.

Since then I've started to broaden my horizons completing two plays and a decent body of short stories. I am currently struggling with my fifth novel and it's winning.




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avg rating: 3.77 | 13 ratings | 7 reviews | 1 distinct work
Living with the Truth Living with the Truth
by Jim Murdoch (Goodreads author)
avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 2008
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Living with the Truth (Literature & Fiction)
1 chapters   —   updated 04/30/2008 11:22AM
description: A novel about a old bookseller who finds himself forced to spend two days with the personification of truth.
June 08
Gentlemen Jim gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Gentlemen (Paperback)
by Klas Östergren
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recommended to Jim by: Canongate
recommended for: People who have a lot of time on their hands
read in June, 2009

Jim Jim said: "The core of the book is a universal one, the younger man enthralled by an older one. In this case it's the twenty-five year-old narrator/author who is taken under the wing of Henry Morgan, a “pianist, boxer and charmer”, who although only ten yea...more "
Gentlemen Jim gave 3 of 5 stars to:
Gentlemen (Hardcover)
by Klas Östergren, Tiina Nunnally
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May 20
Goodreads June Newsletter Contest
Jim said "maybe" to attending the event: Goodreads June Newsletter Contest.
date: May 24, 2009 12:42PM
location: GOODREADS ¡ POETRY ! Group, 123 Goodreads, Massapequa, NY, The United States
description: Want your words to reach nearly two million people?

Goodreads and the ¡Poetry! group have partnered to create a contest in order to select a new poem each month for our newsletter.

1. Post your best poem here (*one poem per person*) in this folder (below as a "comment").

2. Goodreads and I will select five poems each month to be voted on by the Goodreads community.

3. ¡Poetry! group members will vote for the poem they like best (one vote pe...more

May 18
Laidlaw Jim gave 4 of 5 stars to:
Laidlaw (Paperback)
by William McIlvanney
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recommended for: People who don't think they'd like detective fiction
read in January, 1977

Jim Jim said: "This a not a whodunnit. We're never in any doubt about who did what. McIlvanney is an educated writer and Jack Laidlaw is not your average detective, something of a cross between Columbo and Morse. His writing style is poetic, the chapters short and ...more "
Dearest Father Jim marked as to-read:
Dearest Father (Oneworld Classics)
by Franz Kafka
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No One Belongs Here... Jim gave 4 of 5 stars to:
No One Belongs Here More Than You (Paperback)
by Miranda July
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read in December, 2008

Jim Jim said: "We are what we eat, so my mother always told me, so I guess we are what we’re force-fed too.

Much of Miranda July's childhood was spent listening to the rants of “borderline crazy writers,” along with disturbing seventies-style conf...more
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One Day in the Life... Jim gave 5 of 5 stars to:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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recommended for: Anyone who thinks they are having problems coping
read in January, 1975

Jim Jim said: "This was the first book I bought after I left school, my first adult book. I remember the experience as if it was yesterday. It was in a small bookstore-come-newsagents in Ayr. I can't remember buying any book before that, besides I bought this with ...more "
The Optimist: One Ma... Jim gave 3 of 5 stars to:
The Optimist: One Man's Search for the Brighter Side of Life (Paperback)
by Laurence Shorter
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read in April, 2009

Jim Jim said: "Let’s get a couple of things straight here before we start. I would never have brought this book in a month of Sundays. Had I seen it lying on one of the 3 for 2 tables in Waterstones I wouldn’t have given it a second glance. Had I seen it marked...more "
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