The Sunday philosophy club

This was a fine mystery. Isabel Dalhousie though was hard to like. Her philosophical musings are interesting, and she is a smart cookie. But she is so reserved, and such a prude, and I just wanted her to stop repressing herself and wake up from her asceticism. In a pinch, I would read another of these, but I definitely liked the Typing school for men stories better. I did appreciate the setting, and read in Scotland to get a feel, which worked. But I do not think Isabel and I would get along at all, so I just couldn't fall for this book.

This is a re-read, but it's been a few years.

Well, that was a disappointment. The mystery, such as it is, is boring and trivially resolved in the last two pages, after numerous red herrings, none of which are really ever resolved.

The characters are boring -- Isabel Dalhousie is an elderly, rich Scottish woman who, despite frequently judging everyone else for being layabouts, seems to do nothing to occupy her time except judge others, nose into other people's business and obsess about the sex life of people half her age.

The schtick of the book is ostensibly the philosophy, but this is no [b:Sophie's World|10959|Sophie's World (Paperback)|Jostein Gaarder|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21A6T5PH7YL.SL75.jpg|4432325]. Philosophy is mentioned in passing, over-simplified and only in the most trite way.

There's very little redeemable here.