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  <title><![CDATA[The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)]]></title>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1961</original-publication-year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Muriel Spark]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 22 07:50:28 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I took a break from reading for a few days, and so finally, this morning, I finished this great novella.<br/><br/>While the final 3rd is not nearly as interesting or engaging as the first 2/3rds, it is none the less a fantastic book.<br/><br/>Miss Jean Brodie is a character whom I shall never fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43114009">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Embarassingly for someone with a degree in women's studies, I'd never read this classic.  Thanks to jury duty the past couple of days, I've now remedied this gap in my reading.  I shall now need to see the classic film, which I've also missed.  That background aside, I really enjoyed this book.  Yes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9114533">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Might fascism have a whimsical element? Dictators have their reasons, often unreasonable ones not guided by the facts. Hitler and Mussolini were ready to tear down Europe and rebuild it in Greco-Roman splendor. Irrational, mad, whimsical. There's an excellent 1989 documentary titled, The Architectur...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43376800">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45089566">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie&quot; is a short novel by Muriel Spark (Scottish) that tells the story of a teacher in an all-girl's school in Edinburgh and her &quot;set&quot;--the group of young girls that she teaches and sharply influences during a period of her life she refers to as her &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45089566">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54241788">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The 1968 movie, with Dame Maggie Smith's superb performance as Miss Brodie, is one of my all-time favorite films. I'd never felt the need to read the original novel until recently. Maybe my expectations were too high but I was disappointed. I was surprised by the writing style which is repetitive an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54241788">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="39190949">
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  <date_added>Wed Dec 03 08:12:27 -0800 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Spark’s penetrating wit and economy of style make this darkly comic tale of Miss Brodie’s “betrayal” at the hands of her tiny-eyed student, Sandy Stranger, glint like a knife blade.  Told by an omniscient narrator—who knows both past and future, yet provokes the reader with an absolute ref...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39190949">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47960340">
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Writing style - I didn't care for it. Omniscient narrator - ugh. Each character is defined by certain characteristics that are repeated over &amp; over - Sandy has tiny eyes, Rose is &quot;known for sex&quot;, etc. I GET it. Characters in this short novel are not well developed &amp; mostly struck me with a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47960340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46706777">
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I saw the movie with Maggie Smith and the incredible, scandalous, jaw-dropping story sent me directly to the bookshelves of my house, which are crammed with the collections of many bibliophiles. I ripped through the levels and found the novel, read it in the course of a day, and then stopped, unsure...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46706777">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59590537">
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  <read_at>Sun Jun 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a witty cautionary tale about the deluded followers of charismatic leaders and the muddled ideals of some of the charismatic and just generally about practicing opposite of what we teach. However, the ending seemed improbable and the Dantesque fates of some of the characters were a bit crue...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59590537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46372895">
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 15 19:52:40 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My weakness for reading books by certain breed of British female author  is growing: Iris Murdoch, A.S.Byatt, and now Muriel Spark. In Spark's  tidy novella, the drama takes place in a school in Edinburgh in the thirties, during the &quot;prime&quot; of an unorthodox educator. A lover of the Fascist...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46372895">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50194010">
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short novel – Spark had an amazing ability to convey complicated ideas and develop interesting characters in a very succinct fashion.  At first I was ambivalent towards the flash-forward narrative because I did not like knowing the ending before the plot could unfold, but the book's structure is b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50194010">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="47791196">
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Miss Brodie.  I actually prefer the movie to the book (probably because I saw it before I read its source), but there are so many great things in the book.  It's incredible how Muriel Spark makes you and admire and love Miss Brodie, no matter what ridiculous--and sometimes downright awful--th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47791196">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="56938667">
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    <body><![CDATA[Hit the snooze button.  Because you won't wanna wake up early to finish this trite piece of over-celebrated frump.  Miss Jean Brodie is the kind of co-dependent teacher that smart kids steer clear of -- except here she attracts otherwise likable school girls and prods them along this tiresome plot l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56938667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="62521560">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[En las primeras páginas 'La plenitud de la señorita Brodie' me estaba mosqueando muchísimo. La señorita Brodie era tan estúpidamente ridícula que me estaba poniendo de los nervios y encontraba el estilo repetitivo de lo más irritante. Al final lo pillé: la señorita Brodie era ridícula a pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62521560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54584306">
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  <read_at>Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Being, once again, unspeakably lazy, I'm just copying-and-pasting my reactions from the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://womanwhotalkedtoomuch.blogspot.com/2009/05/wwttm-benign-book-dictatorship-prime-of.html">Woman Who Talked Too Much Benign Book Dictatorship</a>:<br/><em>Like many people, I read the book after seeing the movie, and the first time I read it, as a teenager, I remember being taken aback to learn that one of th...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54584306">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although I didn't think I was &quot;five star&quot; loving this book while I read it, the fact that I'm still pondering it two days later indicates that the book is well worth the five stars. <br/><br/>Miss Jean Brodie is an unconventional teacher in a Scottish girls school in the 1930's.  She cho...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50301526">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Our book club is discussing this tonight. The book is a little odd in the way it jumps from present to the past without notice but even so, the author was able to communicate the jump quite well. Would work well in a movie. I understand there is one. I plan on watching it. I thought it was an intere...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61642782">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite book of 2009, so far at least.  If you have ever had a teacher like Miss Jean Brodie you will love, love, love this book!  My high school french teacher was a Miss Brodie without the manipulative qualities.  Madame taught us more about living well than how to congugate verbs.  Whenever I...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46237522">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I picked this slim little title up years ago at a bargain book store and it had been sitting on my shelf untouched ever since. Then, just a couple of weeks ago, I was surprised to see it listed in the 100 Best Novels list put out by The Modern Library. I decided to finally give it a read and I'm ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47513406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can't say enough good things about this book.  I think it's just wonderful.  It's set at a private girls' school in 1930s Edinburgh and revolves around Jean Brodie, an egotistical and eccentric teacher, who still manages to remain charming, at least to &quot;her girls.&quot;  In fact, being &quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68485208">more...</a>]]></body>
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