Status Updates From A Severed Head

i wanted something lighthearted before jumping into a long classic and this is definitely working. anticipate it’ll be a 3.5 star read — murdoch is good here, great even, but not at her best. character work is subtle, brief and masterful as always, as is her dialogue and razor-sharp prose, but the plot seems a little stale and predictable, especially the stuff with the siblings - bit overwrought i’d say!

Few authors' books are slower to get through than iris murdoch. What's weird is i can't tell why . It's got to be something subtle about the sentence structure

I want to DNF so badly.

after analyzing my goodreads data, Chat GPT suggest i read this Murdoch novel next (she wrote a lot of books)