A review by libromir
The Sea, the Sea by Iris Murdoch

4.0

Dang, this was just one of those "right place, right time" books for me. I can't recommend it to everyone. It took me a REAAAAAAAALLY long time to get through it. Just nickel and dimed, really, but... I kept going back to see what happened next. It was just Charles' development and insanity and process that I really connected with. His relationship to James was interesting. I've read a couple of her books and I'm always startled by how... timeless and worldly? I can't put my finger on it. She's got a style that makes you feel like you're reading something from the 30's, or even the late 1800's, but with such a modern sensibility. I just like her very much. I am compelled by her. She makes me aware of the universality of the basest human emotions. I don't know if that's worded right, but... I wish I'd underlined all the phrases and passages I kept wanting to underline. I don't think I can re-read it again any time soon and I kept being captured by turns of phrase and moments she'd come up with.