[ebooktalk] Re: Doris Lessing
- From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:57:58 +0100
Oh dear, you are all putting me off the golden notebook. I will give it a
try anyway.
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On Behalf Of Trish Talbot
Sent: 11 June 2013 20:26
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Doris Lessing
Besides the "Golden Notebook" I have only read "The Grass Is Singing", which
I didn't like at all. The author seemed determined to portray her main
character, Mary, in the worst light possible, yet I felt she was
comparatively blameless if rather misguided.
Trish.
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From: "Tar Barrels" <tar.barrels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:36 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: What to read next?
>I read the Martha Quest series in the late 60's and absolutely revelled
>in it. But I don't remember a baby with special powers. I must have
>been very naieve.
> I agree that some of Lessing's work feels a bit dated now, but as
>Voldi said about Priestley, what matters is that they are of their
>time, and the Martha Quest series certainly was. I've always intended
>reading the Golden Notebooks again because I can't remember a thing
>about them, but somehow never got round to it.
> June
>
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> On Behalf Of Steven Bingham
> Sent: 11 June 2013 17:59
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> Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: What to read next?
>
> Hi David
>
> I have not read the Golden Notebook but I did read most of the Martha
> Quest series. These start as a standard fictional biographical novel
> detailing Martha's growing up in South Africa and her migration to
> London but then they start getting surreal. She is living in
> Post-World War II London and somehow the bomb damage and her pregnacy
> lead her to believe that her child is some kind of an alien with
> special powers. At this point I gave up. I think it was the third of
> fourth books in the series. The Golden Notebook was written after this
> series and I understand that it has weird aspects but don't really
> know.
>
> Steve
>
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> On Behalf Of David Russell
> Sent: 11 June 2013 15:13
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> Subject: [ebooktalk] What to read next?
>
> Hi all
>
> I feel like a change from my usual literary diet of murder and mayhem.
> I have a list of books for such occasions, books I have wanted to
> read for ages and just not done so. I just picked a book at random
> and it turns out to be Doris Lesssing's "Golden notebook". I do not
> know why it is on my list, although I have heard it is worth reading.
>
> Has anyone read it and if so do you have any comments, either positive
> or otherwise. Not sure I have read Lessing before, so it should be
> interesting.
>
>
> David
>
>
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