[ebooktalk] Re: Doris Lessing
- From: "Elaine Harris \(Rivendell\)" <elaineharris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 08:59:22 +1000
I have only read "Jackson's Dilemma" by D.L. which I found odd; cold
somehow.
Elaine
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On Behalf Of Trish Talbot
Sent: Wednesday, 12 June 2013 8:41 AM
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Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Doris Lessing
Good luck, David. Don't say we didn't warn you!
Trish.
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From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:57 PM
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: Doris Lessing
> 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
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> 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?
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>>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?
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>> 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?
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>> 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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