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In this first book I'm reading in preparation for a trip to Edinburgh later this year, Muriel Spark delivers dry Scottish humor, ruminations on Calvinism, and one of the great charismatic and manipulative teachers in fiction.
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3.75 stars. Because I thoroughly enjoyed it but sometimes it dragged.
Having grown up on the perhaps unsurpassable 1969 Maggie Smith performance, was curious as to the kind of impression this would leave - Geraldine McEwan also gave a satisfyingly fruity rendering in the (unfortunately unfinished) 1978 TV version.
Really liked the playful, jaunty tone, occasionally bordering on farce, and all the vivid observations around the awkwardness, curiosity of growing up — in this case under the rather unbenign influence of larger-than-life Brodie — came as little surpris ...more
Really liked the playful, jaunty tone, occasionally bordering on farce, and all the vivid observations around the awkwardness, curiosity of growing up — in this case under the rather unbenign influence of larger-than-life Brodie — came as little surpris ...more
4,5/5. Edebi açıdan oldukça farklı bir roman. Jean Brodie, genel çizginin dışında bir öğretmen, ve biz onu öğrencilerinin anlattığı kadarıyla tanıyoruz. Zamanda ileri-geri gidiş gelişlerle anlatılıyor. Severek okudum.
Spark's novel is witty, critical, and cynical in all the best ways.
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