Members with This Book
Most Helpful Reviews
see all reviews
Liked It1 of 1 members found this review helpful “a brilliant book,great structure many interwoven mazes toward the human soul.I found Anna ,Ella,and even Molly in myself.Lessing talks an honest language,even if one may not agree with her,her integrity is undeniable.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “There are a few passages--a few-- in this rambling tome that are brilliantly phrased: catching and showing the feeling of utter hopelessness and madness of being a woman in a patriarchal society. |
Newest Reviews
see all reviews-
“This is extremely well-written, but I wouldn't recommend it to any of my friends. ”
Karen S wrote this review 13 days ago. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This is the best novel I have ever read on the subject of being a woman. I will reread it regularly I guess, to find new things in it each time.”
Lady of Orcival wrote this review Friday, October 30 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“ There are a few passages--a few-- in this rambling tome that are brilliantly phrased: catching and showing the feeling of utter hopelessness and madness of being a woman in a patriarchal society.
Mrs. C wrote this review Sunday, October 25 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
Then, the rest is just the protagonist whining. She falls in love within A DAY and then becomes exactly whatever her paramour wants her to be, again and again, and then complains about idealism and her empty life. Wah, wah writer's block. Wah, wah truth is an illusion. Wah, wah communism isn't what I'd hoped it would be.
Get a job, woman. ”
“So far so good!”
Anupama B wrote this review Wednesday, September 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Goodness. This book was amazing. Not amazing (or difficult or challenging) to read, but astonishing to realize what I was reading--the communism in the 1950s, yes; the feminism, yes; madness, yes; but also the whole question of truth, words, literature, and a shadowing of what was just then emerging in criticism.
Rosy wrote this review Tuesday, August 18 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
I also read Lessing's 1971 introduction, which in my opinion is an important essay and would (in my parallel universe) inspire me to actually study the book.
”
“This book was as compelling when I read it recently as it was when I read it in the sixties. Incisive, powerful dialogue between men and women about relationships that holds up over time.”
Syllable wrote this review Thursday, August 6 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“I found this book extremely hard to follow.”
Mary H wrote this review Sunday, May 24 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A book I would like to read again.”
Tatjana wrote this review Friday, May 22 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
1 of 1 members found this review helpful“When Doris Lessing became the Nobelprice for Literature (2007) she was at home, minding her own business. When the press arrived, she talked to them sitting on her doorstep in her old dress. She said she's to busy to spend a lot of time about Nobelprices and press. (I watched a documentary, in which she's also merely is going about her own business in stead of starring in an ego-doc.). She's to busy getting taking care of her son, living and working: writing. It seemed al very genuine and authentic to me. Her books are amazing, but there's a big difference between Particularly Cats and The Golden Note Book. To appreciate The Golden Note Book, I suppose you best are in the second half of your live :-)). ”
MollyMcBeal wrote this review Wednesday, May 13 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
