Victoria (YSB) - reviewed on 11/30/2009 + 636 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 4

What a strange, strange book. In many ways, it was QUITE ridiculous, with the characters (the narrator especially) acting completely unbelievably. But, I suppose it was really the fact that of the seven people in the cast, all of them were sleeping around with the same few people, that made it rather unbelievable. I was quite surprised at the happy ending. It seemed more like a play than a novel, and I'm not quite sure what all the fuss about Iris Murdoch is. The only thing I can think of is that it was a surprisingly fast read and with the sex-crazy plot, a very modern novel for 1961 it seems.

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