
The Good Apprentice
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Narrated by:
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Christopher Cazenove
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By:
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Iris Murdoch
Stuart Cuno has decided to become good. Not believing in God, he invents his own methods, which include celibacy, chastity, and the abandonment of a promising academic career. Interfering friends and relations question his sincerity, his sanity, and his motives.
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Critic reviews
"[T]he reader's involvement with the huge cast never diminishes, nor does attention to their wit and philosophical exchanges flag.” (Publishers Weekly)
"Iris Murdoch at her most artful, juggling philosophy and farce with knowledge and ease." (Economist)
"Murdoch works with an intellectual daring most writers only dream of." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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The narration is the best I have ever heard. Christopher Cazenove is utterly brilliant - what a great loss to us all that he died so young.
Brilliant!
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I adore Iris Murdoch's writing, but after listening to and loving the Philosopher's Pupil, I listened to this book, and it seemed to drag on endlessly with tiresome characters who were endlessly and pointlessly navel-gazing, with next to nothing really going on. Still, I listened to the entire book, with hopes the whole time that it would pick up, but it never did. However, her prose is so delectable, I continued to listen, hope and grumble, and couldn't bear to not listen.Tiresome and plotless, but beautifully written
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A Squabble of Smartypants
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A very entertaining book
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Perhaps as hard to read as it was to write ....
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Loved it!
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In this case she again sets up a comfortable world of characters from the English upper middle class. They live the London life in houses where dinner parties are common, money is not discussed and ideas are bantered about at arms length. But the author then sets a series of troubling disruptions in motion and we witness the anguish and contortions that follow. The human comedy is ever present and no puppet may call the tune.
So, not a short novel and it seems to take quite a time to get going but, once it does, it becomes absorbing and, by the end, there is a sense of loss as it concludes. All of the best fiction is like that, but Murdoch's rarified and now, perhaps also a little dated, world will not be to all tastes. However, if you accept the terms of engagement, this is a satisfying, literate and very well narrated entertainment.
Scenes from the human comedy
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not for me
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