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| DORIS LESSING DIALOGUE : Hi, Kate. | | 9 | RivaThuds, June 2008 | |
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... and Memoirs of a Survivor, although I do have the entire set of Canopus in Argos archives (signed first editions), and The Golden Notebook, on my book-shelves.
Anthony Burgess was also an expat, and several of his books are set abroad - The Long Day Wanes in Malaysia, Beard's Roman Wom ... So far I've read, over the years (favourites in bold):
2007 - Doris Lessing: The Golden NotebookThe Habit of LovingThe Fifth Child
2006 - Orhan Pamuk: Snow, My Name is Red
2005 - Harold Pinter: lots of his
2003 - J. M. Coetzee
2001 - V. S. Naipaul: A House for Mr Bi ... ... width="200" height="200"/>
5. Nobel Prize Author: possibilities
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Kristin Lavransdatter: the Cross by Sigrid Und ... If you didn't like The Golden Notebook, but want to read more Lessing, her semi-autobiographical series of novels beginning with Martha Quest is interesting. I like her African Stories and The Grass Is Singing, both fairly early works of hers, and both set in Africa. I recently bought Alf ... ... literature, certainly. And for Lessing's many fans, perhaps that is the greatness of this book. I have twice abandoned her The Golden Notebook so I can't count myself among readers with a depth of knowledge about her. She says in the intro..."Do children feel their parent's emotions? Yes, we do, ... ... The 5000 Year Leap by W. Cleon Skousen
28. Relentless by Dean Koontz
29. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
30 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
31. So Many Books, So Little Time by Sara Nelson
32. Six Bad Things by Charlie Huston
33. Harry Potter and the Half ... I had to reread to get it. But yes, as a complimentary challenge to the 1010 (am I understanding you correctly?) this is a good idea. I'll be doing the stepped 1010 and have been planning on a twelve book bonus category. Might just swap it for this 20/10, if many get on board. 75 in a year ... ... Song of Solomon
4. Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory and The Quiet American
5. Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook
6. Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Cancer Ward
7. John Steinbeck’s In Dubious Battle
8. Robert Caro’s Power Broker 9. Studs Terkel’s Working ... 175. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. (Sometimes ex-) Communist women sleeping with married men, complaining, being depressed, not working, being lazy, crying, doing nothing....for 600 FREAKIN PAGES. I completely disagree with Lessing's thoughts about novels (which she outlines in the ... I'm skeptically making my slow, slow, irritated way through The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. >52: Oh jeez, the case against The Golden Notebook just keeps building; I definitely won't be reading it anytime soon.
I can definitely see how Ferris' narration would feel "gimmicky" to some people, but it just didn't for me. I wonder how much of it is due to prior conditioning; I can't ... ... by Barbara Pym.
There are also two novels which I intended to read but decided not to after hearing them serialised: The Golden Notebooks by Doris Lessing and The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery. >30/31 hey Erin - lost you for a while. Just weighing in on The Golden Notebook, I'd concur on the "heavy-handed" thing (ho ho). I found it a real slog in the end - it felt like a 'necessary' book, but also one that captured an era that has thankfully passed. I'm glad I've read it, but I didn't ... ... The 5000 Year Leap A Miracle That Changed the World by W. Cleon Skousen
24. The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell
25 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
26 A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Had to say, I couldn't get into it and returned it to the library unfinished. ... Sargasso Sea
In Cold Blood
The Magus
Cat's Cradle
Breakfast at Tiffany's
To Kill a Mockingbird
Solaris
The Golden Notebook
Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Rings
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Glass Bees
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles
Veronika Decides to Die
Th ... ... to the two series are many separate works. I can recommend Memoirs of a Survivor, and Briefing for a Descent into Hell, the Golden Notebook, offhand. >30: I will definitely take that into consideration. My copy of The Golden Notebook is pretty daunting. ... go wrong with Dickens.
To choose your next Lessing read though, I would recommend The Grass is Singing over The Golden Notebook. The Golden Notebook is very dense, some people find it a bit heavy-handed, and it can be difficult to get into. ... way Lessing ended The Fifth Child, with Ben's future up in the air. Maybe someday, if I get curious...
I've also got The Golden Notebook on my shelf, so I will someday read that, at the very least. ... ousen
Added the tags as suggested. I am currently "tri-booking it-- reading Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, and because my daughter is strongly advising me: the 6th in the Harry Potter series, because I will not go see a movie unless I ... ... by Carlo Collodi
The Voyeur by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Father of the Four Passages by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
April:
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Blue Lantern by Victor Pelevin
The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic
A Visit from the Footbinder by Emily Prager
The T ... April:
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Blue Lantern by Victor Pelevin
The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugresic
A Visit from the Footbinder by Emily Prager
The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien
Cat and Mouse by Günter Grass
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais ... well, Mackie, I've read The Plague, and the ratskys were all poisoned, so I didn't touch them.
I'd like to read the Golden Notebook and Possession, but are they mountainous enough for a group of this calibre? Small hills yes. Camus, a tall hill, going beyond the tree line, even. Atwood, no, ... ... before me) direction our next read should go.
Think of the discussions we'd have reading Kathy Acker!
What about The Golden Notebook? or Byatt's Possession or Atwood's The Blind Assassin?--book w/in book w/in book w/in book; or David Mitchell's masterpiece, Cloud Atlas ... The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoevsky
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Tristam Shandy by Laurence Sterne I read The Crying of Lot 49 some years back. Weird shit. But mercifully short weird shit.
Definitely gave up on The Golden Notebook. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't grabbing me at all.
Started The Slap this morning on the bus. It's not going to be an easy read (Tsiolkas is challenging, *an ... Didn't get into The Golden Notebook so have put that to one side, and picked up Vile Bodies in the meantime. (I thought I may have already read Vile Bodies - I read a lot of Waugh's books many years ago - but the introductory scenes weren't familiar so it's probably one I bought, but hadn't ... Have officially Given Up On The Golden Notebook. It's just not sustaining my interest. I have a few non-girly books on Mt TBR to get through in the meantime, but I'll be back soon...
And may I also just add my voice to the chorus of approval of Bel Canto? A wonderful book. I think I'm about to give up on The Golden Notebook. I'm afraid I'm finding it far more interesting to stare out the bus window than to force myself to read it. It's not bad, it's just not enticing me at all.
Next off the rank: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, which I've owned for years, and was ... livrecache, I'm not getting into The Golden Notebook either. I'll give it another day or two (it's my commuting read) and then decide whether to continue or not. The opening chapter had far too much dialogue (which I'm not a fan of) and then the first "notebook" chapter is all about what makes ... ... a copy.
I've got another TC Boyle waiting in the wings - The Road to Welville. Anyone read it?
I tried to read The Golden Notebook many years ago, but I just didn't get through it. I'm still reading The Golden Notebook - I found the introductory chapter not terribly engrossing (too much talk for me), but am into the first notebook now, and am rather intrigued. I'm still going on The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. I do have to say I found the introductory chapter a bit of a struggle (I'm not a huge fan of dialogue or talk-y books), but now we're into the first notebook and I am rather intrigued. I'm still going on The Golden Notebook and Red Seas Under Red Skies.
What is everyone else reading? ... n
The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
The Winter Mantle by Elizabeth Chadwick
White Horses by Alice Hoffman
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch
and last but not least
Three Men on the Bummel by Jerome K. Jerome
All bought 2nd ... ... Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher are all crossed off now. (What a weekend!)
Hoping to start The Golden Notebook today on the bus home. ... properly articulate to myself yet. (Possibly sheer jealousy that she managed to meet Joss Whedon et al.)
Hoping to start The Golden Notebook on the way home tonight, but have sick children at home, so Best Plans Of Mice And Mums etc. ... it's our duty to have quibbles. ;) Will be finishing it off tonight, it's a quick read.
And I picked up Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook as my public transport read today, and then ended up getting a lift to work (Miss Boo isn't well, and Mr TQD needed an extra pair of hands to help out). ... I think you sensible ladies have just relieved me of the need to experience The Golden Notebook for myself----another book that can slip off MT.TBR . There are plenty more where that came from. ... yet busy with school-work and stressful and lonely, coping away from home for the first time.
arw and Flossie - ?The Golden Notebook - that is one I read in my student flat 30 years ago, with my two feminist flatmates and a lot of discussion. It would be great to read it again in my ... >54: I read The Golden Notebook for the first time last year and found it very hard going, I must admit. Took me ages to get through.
Did you hear about the Golden Notebook project at all, though? That looked quite interesting, although I started ... Kiwidoc--Have you ever thought about rereading The Golden Notebook? (I have). I'm just wondering what it would read like now as compared to then. :) ... - Charles Dickens
3.Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
4.The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
5.The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
6.Middlemarch - George Eliot
7. Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
8.The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
9.The Col ... ... left-field for Doris Lessing and I don't know exactly what to think of them...I'm not Lessing's biggest fan (loathed The GOlden Notebook), and I am a reader of SF, but somehow these snuck in under my dismissal radar. I'd say The Marriage Between Zones Three, FOur, and Five is worth ... ... spacepotatoes, it was on another libaray. I got the book tonight, might read another book for a light read after reading The Golden Notebook which I didn't care for and The Girls which was really good. I think that New Moon will be next, I enjoyed Twilight.
girlunderglass Twilight is a ... Well, since post #7 I've finished The Golden Notebook (which was mind-blowingly good, if quite a draining read - heartily recommended), and I've just started The Glass Bead Game. So far so good: I was quickly intrigued. Hesse is obviously a titanic intellect - I'm starting to worry that his ... ... to al of this. This is what I have read since the strart of the new year
1.Twilight by Stephenie Meyer-got hooked!
2. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing-very long and strange
3. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen-great read!
I just started The Girls by Lori Lansens. I have read The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing and Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen both for the my bookclub. ... been enough to cripple our entire transport system, close all the schools and keep us all "working from home"! I'm reading The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. It's brilliant. I have a couple more by her on the TBR pile, in view of the Nobel prize an' all. I'm still on The Golden Notebook, and really enjoying it. Next up, either The Good Terrorist (also by Doris Lessing) or The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse. ... which is also interesting.
Can you tell I like Doris Lessing's work? I first came to her in the early 1970's via The Golden Notebook, which was a feminist icon of that era, but I like her early African work better. ... interested in the plot or any of the characters - but I can see why some people would really enjoy it.
Just started The Golden Notebook, which is a much easier read. The first 100 pages have got me hooked. This is my first Doris Lessing, but I have a couple more on the TBR pile - I ... ... Heinlein, 1968
183. Girl With Green Eyes by Edna O'Brien, 1980's
184. Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges, 1970
185. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1970
186. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1970, 2009
187. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1969
188. One Flew Over ... ...
2. Pascal Mercier - Nachttrein naar Lissabon
3. Doris Lessing - Het gouden boek
4. Giorgio Bassani - Achter de deur
5. Isabel Allende - Portret in sepia
6. Italo Calvino - Als op een winternacht een reiziger
7. Je ... ... couldn't put down (even though I hated myself for it):
Little Face - Sophie Hannah
Book I couldn't wait to put down:
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing. Occupied a completely unfair amount of reading time.
Best re-read:
Self-Help - Lorrie Moore
A Rich Full Death - Michael Dibdin
... ... of the development of the novel and requisite character, narrative voice, dialogue, etc.
mildly interesting
As for The Golden Notebook - I wanted so badly to love it but honestly, I simply couldn't get much into the narrative and after 60 pages, found I was dreading even picking it up. R ... Well done, orangeena!
Interested to hear you abandoned The Golden Notebook - I finally struggled to the end of this last week, and can't say I really enjoyed it. What do you think made you give up? New member here. I'm flip flopping between England and Africa with The Golden Notebook. ... style, with some variety of plot and character to keep you from numbing up, or they had a more entertaining tone. The Golden Notebook wasn't especially 'plotty', and was very much bound up in the central character, so this didn't help. Interesting perspective there! Message #134
Flossie
Doris Lessing writes some pretty deep stuff eh?
I think I'll stay away from The Golden Notebook
I'm curious why certain writers seem to get stuck in a grove of heaviness. For awhile I stayed away from Joyce Carol Oates because she seemed to write about heavy, heavy ... Nothing new for weeks as I have been struggling through...
92. The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
This is one of those books that I put on my list a long while ago because the Grauniad did it as one of their 'book club' books and I found the commentaries really interesting. Plus it sounded ... No. 91 sounds fascinating - may have to go on my list of Christmas books...
I'm intrigued by the online project/The Golden Notebook - what is this? ... being a communist in the 1950s... I know, it's very shallow of me. But I'll definitely check out that interview - thanks. The Golden Notebook has been on my list for a while, but I was prompted to finally pick it up now by the Golden Notebook project ... #34 - FlossieT - don't give up on The Golden Notebook- if you go to the BBC Women's Hour archives there is an interview with Doris Lessing about the book which may give you another perspective on it. The interview was featured on 25 August, 2008. ... (have my eye on The Sea in particular) but December is going to belong first of all to Doris Lessing; once I've finished The Golden Notebook (hmm, maybe that should be "if I finish", since I keep finding I've read 5 pages without taking anything in and have to retrace my steps), I have in ... #209 - not about The Outcast but I I just picked up on your note on 1950s England... I'm reading The Golden Notebook at the moment, and I think that is one of the things I'm struggling with the most: it's set in the 1950s, but the characters are speaking and acting in a way that I would ... ... I get to it - I think I'm going to be attempting some lighter reads as we wind down towards Christmas. Am partway through The Golden Notebook right now (as a result of the online project, which I think looks very cool indeed!), which looks like it might be quite intense. My answer to both of your questions is no.
Doris Lessing is, however,one of my favorite authors, and I have read The Golden Notebook at least three times -- first in the mid-sixties. It seemed to have a stronger impact on women then than it does now.
So I have bookmarked the site and ... The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Got it quite a while ago (cheap in the local Tesco supermarket) but keep putting it off as more attractive options have appeared. To be honest it's one of those things I feel I ought to read rather than want to read. And by the time I've finished my current ... ... a bit slow. Now I find that it has taken 10 months to discover this thread!
When you have time, would love a comment on The Golden Notebook. ... down in the back of my diary!!
I am just going to add the books for now and then maybe add my thoughts later.
34) The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
35) Solstice Joyce Carol Oates
36) The Rose of Sebastopol Katharine Mcmahon
37) Midnight all Day Hanif Kureishi
38) Primavera S ... ... I'm now halfway through Anna Karenina, and after that I've got a choice of either Nobel-prize-winning Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, or Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. I reckon I'll plump for the former.
I love love love the Russians - Anna Karenina is just breathtaking. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing During my degree I read some of The Golden Notebook and keep meaning to read more of her but it is one of those things I never get round to. ... humanity, but sometimes I want to read something a little more cheerful! So I picked up in the end the name of the rose, the golden notebook and then went to the charity shop and got on beauty and the accidentals
So I'm well stocked up, but not sure of the order in which to read them, ... Hi, I would recommend the Martha Quest series and the autobiographies (under my skin etc). I think the Golden Notebook is a bit daunting, although I've never read anything so powerful about mental breakdown (except perhaps, Briefing for a Descent). I'm about to start her new book, Alfred ... I've just finished reading The Golden Notebook and I'm amazed by the insightful and critical observations of the human experience (or what we call *our* human experiencie) Lessing makes. I was actually wondering if Anna Wulf is an alter-ego of Doris Lessing.... I, I, I... what a woman!
The Gol ... ... I have listed her as a favorite author since first coming here, and I keep her in formidable company.
I first read The Golden Notebook in the '60's when it was liberating women across the country (USA). I have read it twice since, and it has held up so far as I'm concerned. I haven't ... ...
I'm among those who were completely charmed by If on a winter's night a traveler; it's on my long list of favorites as is The Golden Notebook. Over many years I've replaced my original copy of the Doris Lessing book twice. I'm also a fan of Nuala O'Faolain although I never talk about ... ... Stone, God's Behaving Badly (Marie Phillips) and Climate Change by Robert Henson.
I'm just about to start The Golden Notebook which will be the first Doris Lessing I've read. ... James Runcie
One Corpse Too Many, Ellis Peters
Jane Boleyn, The Infamous Lady Rochford, Julia Fox
The Golden Notebook, Doris Lessing
Trick of the Mind, Derren Brown
A Partisan's Daughter, Louis de Bernieres
Lessons From the Land of Pork Scratchings, ... In addition to Doctor Faustus (about halfway through), I just started Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook. ... every one of his books that he just makes me want to go away and write.
Just about to make a start on Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, which too many people have told me is the best book in the world. i just hope I'm not disappointed. Thanks for these lists avaland. I'm using them for future reading suggestions. Just finished The Golden Notebook which doesn't appear here yet. 45. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing, 1962
Anna Wulf appears to me to be a sane, intelligent, self aware woman and yet by the end of the novel she has endured a period of intense emotional and psychological pressure. They used to call it a nervous breakdown. Lessing calls it a crack up. ... I've just started The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. It's a very different kind of book for me, Lessing seems to be able to look from the outside at a culture and its social conventions. Much more explicitly critical than I'm accustomed. ... Bowen
there's more, but they need airing and I already have a huge TBR pile!
Just starting a nice new edition of The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing for March.
... I don't know yet which one. It will depend on my mood.
The View from Castle Rock
Saturday
On Chesil Beach
The Golden Notebook
Oryx and Crake
The Possibility of an Island
... and for me, the following:
The Crime of Galileo by Giorgio de Santillana
For Love of Evil by Piers Anthony
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Heaven Cent by Piers Anthony
Demons Don't Dream by Piers Anthon ... ... Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
The Satanic Verses by ... I'd read The Golden Notebook, but last time I checked on Amazon it seemed hard to find so I might wait until they release a new edition of it.
I've just started Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress for discussion with others who are reading it. I'm only about 10 pages in, but it seems ... ... shorter, I might have decided to struggle through it despite the first 150 pages being so disappointing. I'd like to read The Golden Notebook, but I think I'm going to wait until that gets reissued, since it is a little hard to track down now but is being reprinted (or so I've heard) since Less ... ... Chronicles but want to should continue the discussion when you do finish or a long the way.
I would not like to read The Golden Notebook I think that book has the record for me of taking the longest time to read but still eventually finishing it. I found it really boring overall.
Next ... These are Lessing's most popular books in LT:
The golden notebook 741 copies, 4 reviews
The fifth child 336 copies, 9 reviews
The memoirs of a survivor 220 copies, 2 reviews
Shikasta : re, colonised planet 5 : personal,… pyschological, historical documents relating to visit by Johor, ... ... Sweden - Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic "The Golden Notebook," won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. She was praised by the judges for her "skepticism, fire and visionary power."
The Swedish academy's ... ... with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny".
Hmm, I might have to bump The Golden Notebook up my TBR list...
... the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Gigi, by Colette
Goblin Market and Other Poems, by Christina Rossetti
The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
The Group, by Mary McCarthy
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood ... Ooops. My not buying books for the month thing just vanished... ho hum :-)
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe (I'm only going into my fourth year at Cambridge. I really should have read this by now!)
The Three Musketeers, translated by Richard Pevear. I'm ... ... ves):
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Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Just William by Richmal Crompton Trixie by Wallace Graves
I capture the castle by Dodie Smith
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (partly a diary)
Edith's Diary by Patricia Highsmith
I can't believe that no-one's done:
The diary of a nobody by George Grossmith (& Weedon) ... Saul Bellow
78. A Jest of God Margaret Lawrence
79. Happiness Mary Lavin
80. To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
81. The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
82. Ship of Fools Katherine Anne Porter
83. Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
84. The Jewel in the Crown Paul Scott
85. Cotter's ... ... Gustave Flaubert (movie)
Dead Souls Nikolai Gogol
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
The Odyssey Homer
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu
Hamlet William Shakespeare (movie) & many others
The Life and Opinions ... The Golden Notebook next to Goofy Mad Libs.
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