What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Is the reality of the world different from how we perceive and experience it in our minds? Does physical reality exist apart from the human mind?
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Anna Wulf is an author with one successful novel behind her, from which she still earns a reasonable income, but who suffers from writers' block, preventing the emergence of a second novel. Anna decides to comparmentalise her life, using different coloured notebooks to depict her past life in Africa, an imaginary life (Ella), her political views and the humdrum minutiae of her daily life and relationships.
Anna is on a path towards breakdown, and only her relationships with her daughter Janet and friend Molly seems to provide some stability and normality in an otherwise chaotic existence.
Lessing apparently rejects that she has written a feminist novel with The Golden Notebook, but she vividly conveys the ruthless indifference of men and the seemingly intelligent women who accept this behaviour, knowing that there must be something better but not knowing just how to attain it. Lessing seems to imply that women are their own worst foes.
This is also a novel of politics, with a focus on the Cold War communist sentiments in Britain and America, and the faddishness of left wing political activity.
This is complex novel of ideas, because of its structure and multiple viewpoints and its frustrating characters, all of whom are deeply flawed and mostly unlikable, but it is rewarding for the excellence of Lessing's writing and ability to convey an overarching mood that is simultaneously despairing and hopeful.
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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5/5 rating and not given lightly!
This book has a perfect 5 stars on amazon and pulls you in from the first chapter to the last, i loved EVERY minute of it !
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Rating: 10/10
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There were more cliches in this book that in a post-match interview with a footy coach. The writing was machine gun staccato - one short sentence piled on another and another and another.
The characters were mere caricatures, bearing little resemblance to real human beings, and the dialogue was laughable. The plot was more fantastical than anything involving dragons, elves and wizards, and had more holes than a pair of modern fashion jeans.
2 stars out of 5
The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
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