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A Good Place To Start
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| A Severed Head | 2 | |
| The Sea, The Sea | 1 | |
| The Black Prince | 1 |
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| Jackson's Dilemma | 1 | |
| The Good Apprentice | 1 |
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Categorization is odious. There is tremendous overlap among genres. These pigeonholes are offered only as a convenience.
Iris Murdoch
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For starters, "A Word Child" or "The Black Prince". Not "The Red and the Green". Her quality is quite uniform, though, so almost anything is safe.
kalessin January 30th, 2006 04:13 PM PST
I read Jackson's Dilemma and I honestly couldn't figure out what to make of it. Is that one representative of her books? If I didn't like it, would I like the others?
pageminder September 27th, 2006 09:55 AM PST
Please do give Murdoch another chance. I like her very much but haven't read Jackson's Dilemma yet because I expect it to be a weak and atypical work. It was written very late in her career and there is some evidence that she had already started to develop Alzheimer's while writing it. I would suggest starting with The Black Prince or The Good Apprentice. If both are too dense for you, The Unicorn is a formally less complex novel but one I like very much.
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jorn January 29th, 2006 04:52 AM PST