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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark
This is the latest choice in my Modern Library Book Club. And I must say this book has made me officially start to wonder what the people who put together that list think great literature is. I was confounded by the simplicity of this book - and thought that the betrayal that is set up to be so turning was extremely anti-climatic. The way that the author skips from current narrative to past to speculative did not add to the book, but actually made me angry. Just when I became interested, we were off track and headed in a unclear direction.
The only reason this book gets two stars is because of the character of Ms. Jean Brodie. I women that I would champion as one of the most odd-ball I have every read about. She is a teacher that refuses to teach - but rather uses her students as an outlet for personal therapy and attempts to use them to live the life choices she wishes she had the gumption for. I appreciated her for a number of humorous moments - and did want to know what she would say next. But my issue was that I did not care what she would do next. Her actions meant little to me.
The Brodie set, in my mind, was so ill developed that I did not really care about any of them. Sandy, who I would say is the other protagonist of the novel, kept popping into my head as Ms. Piggy with squinty eyes. And though that makes me laugh now, did not help me with her throughout the book. And her anger against Ms. Brodie, and the decision she made to work against her did not clearly make sense to me.
I do not think I would tell anyone to read this book - but maybe the movie would be fun. I do love Maggie Smith.
The only reason this book gets two stars is because of the character of Ms. Jean Brodie. I women that I would champion as one of the most odd-ball I have every read about. She is a teacher that refuses to teach - but rather uses her students as an outlet for personal therapy and attempts to use them to live the life choices she wishes she had the gumption for. I appreciated her for a number of humorous moments - and did want to know what she would say next. But my issue was that I did not care what she would do next. Her actions meant little to me.
The Brodie set, in my mind, was so ill developed that I did not really care about any of them. Sandy, who I would say is the other protagonist of the novel, kept popping into my head as Ms. Piggy with squinty eyes. And though that makes me laugh now, did not help me with her throughout the book. And her anger against Ms. Brodie, and the decision she made to work against her did not clearly make sense to me.
I do not think I would tell anyone to read this book - but maybe the movie would be fun. I do love Maggie Smith.