The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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  I had this book on my shelf for about a year until Sebastian Faulks' BBC programme on 'the snob' in the novel made me take it down.
  It is a very short book, I read in a day or so, but it has stayed in my mind. The factual way in which it is written distances us from the characters who we never real ... (continue)

  I had this book on my shelf for about a year until Sebastian Faulks' BBC programme on 'the snob' in the novel made me take it down.
  It is a very short book, I read in a day or so, but it has stayed in my mind. The factual way in which it is written distances us from the characters who we never really warm to, but they intrigue us nonetheless as we can identify with them in their ordinariness. In the first few pages the six girls of the Brodie set are made known to us by the insignificant attributes which they are famous for. One of the girls is famous for sex, a statement which seems shocking because unexpected and unexplained, at least until later in the book, when it seems just as insignificant as the other attributes. Though we know what Miss Brodie says and does through what her students notice, she is difficult to understand, I still can't decide if she is exceptional, dangerous or just misguided and ordinary.
  I recently watched the film with Maggie Smith, which I though was good, but the characters were more fixed and obvious, and the conclusion seemed more final, I preferred the ambiguity of the book.

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  Conrodette said on Mar 18, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  I have a professor who has similar effects on all of us. This makes me wonder what I am to do. Write a "crazy book" or join a nunnery?

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  DustMoteVII said on Mar 22, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  boring and obsolete

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  Valeria said on Sep 9, 2008 about the School & Library Binding edition | Add your feedback

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  One of my favorite Eng Lit book. Muriel Spark can really grasp the mind of a teenage girl.

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  hermia said on Jul 20, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  A crooked book - you love it sometimes, you hate it often. The final sensation is oh-that's-a-good-book-but-I'm-glad-it's-over. Maybe I read it too young to be able to appreciate its different nuances.

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  Carolina Ramos said on Oct 16, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Audio CD 200 Pages
• Edition: Unabridged
• ISBN-10: 1433206145
• ISBN-13: 9781433206146
• Publisher: Blackstone Audio Inc.
• Pub date: Jul 16, 2007
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 160 mm x 30 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
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