7/4/2023 0 Comments The golden notebook review![]() ![]() Needless to say my reading experience suffered somewhat from such a long, drawn out read. So I think I first started The Golden Notebook back in September and have read eleven other books since then. I had also read about 200 pages of this 635-page book when I picked up the 1358-page War and Peace. And because I narcissistically wanted to be able to say, “oh yes, I’ve read that.”Īnd like War and Peace, The Golden Notebook was at times brilliant, and enthralling, and well, at times, a bit of a slog. And because one can’t claim to know the author until the magnum opus is read. Kind of like I did with that other, much thicker, door stop I read this year War and Peace. And of course Lessing’s 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature means that legions more know the title but not the book. So I felt I had a mission. Hard to find someone that has actually read the book. And by saying that people know the title, I mean very literally that, people know the title. ![]() But I felt like I hadn’t really read Lessing yet– The Golden Notebook is the only Lessing title people seem to know. I also enjoyed The Fifth Child, and it was so disturbing. The Summer Before The Dark I really enjoyed. Before reading The Golden Notebook I had read two other novels by Doris Lessing. ![]()
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