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Edward Baltram is overwhelmed with guilt. His nasty little prank has gone horribly wrong: He has fed his closest friend a sandwich laced with a hallucinogenic drug and the young man has fallen out of a window to his death.  Edward searches for redemption through a reunion with his famous father, the reclusive painter Jesse Baltram. Funny and compelling, &lt;i&gt;The Good Apprentice&lt;/i&gt; is at once a supremely sophisticated entertainment and an inquiry into the spiritual crises that afflict the modern world.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my first read of Iris Murdoch, and after taking a while to adjust to her, I found myself completely absorbed.  The book follows the internal emotional workings of half a dozen characters in response to changing events in their lives.  While I was reading this book, I was asked several time w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46946789">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Redemption lies in forgiving yourself and improving your psychological outlook, whether with therapy, drugs, or both - this is Murdoch's take on our increasingly secular and individualistic moral code. Though this is a rather pessimistic view, after reading the book you feel like it is honest. It's ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48454136">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's a familiar enough device: two brothers choose (or are fated to) opposite but complementary paths, and literature ensues. In this case, one searches for redemption from his own crushing guilt, and one wants to live  a life beyond moral reproach -- both try to do so without the nudge of a belief ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65499463">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Murdoch is a highly respected author, but this is just plain boring, with stilted conversations that are totally implausible &amp; repetitious. The author is just way too self-indulgent, which is too bad, because the moral themes at the heart of the story could be compelling.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first and absolute favorite Iris Murdoch book.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had a hard time getting into this book.  The plot was a bit strange and in the end it didn't come together for me in a satisfying way.  The writing style did not draw me in either.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i found a paperback copy of this outside powell's a couple years ago &amp; in my quest for more fiction to read, came across it in a hidden part of my bookcase.  so far it's totally captivating, exactly what i wanted.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The horror: I actually dog-eared page 141 of my library book because I thought Thomas McCaskerville quoting Kafka to Stuart Cuno was so poignant. Regarding life...good and evil...religion, &quot;[t]here is no way, there is only the end, what we call the way is messing about.&quot;  <br/><br/>I lov...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31142198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Because she was one of the 20th century's most important female philosophers, I decided to give Murdoch's novel a shot. Edward falls into a pit of guilt after lacing his friend's sandwhich with drugs; his friend falls out of a window to his death. The story is loony and peculiar rather than terribly...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/151352">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One of my all time favorite books about a young man in England who experiences the death of a friend through a practical joke gone wrong. Murdoch (through the use of several characters) hits upon the ideas of nature, mysticism, existence, and death just to name a few of the philisophical properties ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26850735">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book drove me nuts, though I read it all the way through. Too much coincidence in the story line for plot device, weirdly portrayed characters, weak main character ... I could go on but I will not. Because that would keep reminding me how much I disliked this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i love books about which i know nothing and have no expectations.  this book exceeded all the expectations i would have had, had i had them.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This I LOVED. its hard to explain why. its hard to explain a Murdoch novel. but the themes and messages in this book are wonderful.]]></body>
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