Il club dei filosofi dilettanti

To be honest, I'd have to call this series a guilty pleasure. The plotlines don't always ring true to life, although I've never been a wealthy philosopher living in Scotland, with a major crush on my niece's ex-boyfriend, a bassoon player who's at least a decade younger than me. I'm not as intellect Leggi tutto

به عنوان داستان پرهیجان پلیسی نیایید سراغش، چون موضوع پلیسیش خیلی کند پیش می‌ره و چیز خاصی نداره، ولی اصل ماجرا در دوراهی‌های اخلاقی مختلفیه که نویسنده و کارآگاهش در داستان مطرح می‌کنند. برای من انگار عصاره‌ی خیلی از کتاب‌هایی که خوندم و فکرمو مشغول کردن، به شکل خیلی مستقیم و در عین حال جذاب، در این Leggi tutto

Alexander McCall Smith is best known for his No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, of which I am a fan. He has another series featuring Isabel Dalhousie, a cultured and wealthy Scottish lady (and I use the term advisedly), which sounds far more like my usual preference than a genial African woman.

I wasn't crazy about the narrator. She's too airy to narrate a whodunit. The protagonist, Isabel Dalhousie, is the editor of an ethics magazine and the asides about ethics and philosophy are as dry as they sound - the ethical quandaries she finds herself in aren't engaging. And she needs a flaw - co Leggi tutto