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Posted in Comedy/Satire, Literary on Oct 31st, 2007
by David Lodge
reviewed by John Murphy
“It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.” – G.K. Chesterton
Christianity passes the test, as the wry novels of David Lodge attest. (The riots and righteous fury inspired by a Danish caricature of the prophet Muhammad a few years ago….Well, that’s another story).
The […]
Posted in Classics on Oct 13th, 2007
By Joseph Conrad
reviewed by Rachel Murphy
In the fictional South American Republic of Costaguana, the small town of Sulaco is sheltered from the rest of the state by mountain and plain—near the edge of the sombre Gulfo Plácido whose still waters are protected from the ocean gusts—“as if within an enormous semicircular and unroofed temple open […]
Posted in Classics, Comedy/Satire on Oct 1st, 2007
By P.G. Wodehouse
reviewed by John Murphy
If laughter is indeed the best medicine, then the collected works of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (1881-1975) should be prescribed by doctors as a matter of course. It is literally impossible to be downhearted while reading the words of Wodehouse. Believe me, I’ve tried, but then that incomparable fathead, Bertram Wooster, […]