[ebooktalk] Re: Doris Lessing

  • From: "Trish Talbot" <trish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:26:26 +0100

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.
----- Original Message ----- 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

-----Original Message-----
From: ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ebooktalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
On Behalf Of David Russell
Sent: 11 June 2013 15:13
To: ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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