Doris Lessing, Nobel Prize-winning author, dies aged 94

BBCNews ^ | 11/17/13

[GSWarrior]

British Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has died aged 94.

A statement from her publisher, Harper Collins, said she "passed away peacefully at her London home in the early hours of this morning".

Her best-known works include The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor and The Summer Before the Dark.

[GSWarrior]

SOme of her books have left me cold, but when she is on her game, there are few better. The Good Terrorist is one of my alltime favorite books, one which the leftists accused her of selling out. Her scifi novel Shikasta was tough reading, but very rewarding.

She became more conservative over the years.

[9YearLurker]

Indeed. I read it a long time ago, but The Golden Notebook was special.

[GSWarrior]

I haven’t read Notebook. It’s that good?

[KosmicKitty]

I was one of those odd kids at my prep school who really liked reading and took extra English classes.

The ONLY book I did not read all the way through was Lessing’s “Briefing for a Descent into Hell” (And I actually got thru “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.”)

It turned me off so much I’ve never read anything else by her.

[chesley]

She wrote 5 novels in the Canopus in Argos eries, of which Shikasta was the first. I read it, and part of the second, improving my mind, don't ya know.

Unfortuantely, I found it to be pretty much the type of science fiction that was written by someone who had no understanding of the genre, covering themes in which I had little interest.

So I quit. Nevertheless, there are those who loved her, so my prayers go out to them, and to her fans.

[9YearLurker]

As I remember it, but again I read it quite some time ago.

[GSWarrior]

I have been unable to finish some of her stuff. If I hadn’t read Good Terrorist first I probably wouldn’t have read anything else.

[KosmicKitty]

When I get done with school, I’ll have to try Good Terrorist.

I really do love a good book.

(I have to do so much school related reading that my non-school reading is FR and the Dexter series - escapism, doncha know. And I’m behind on Dexter)

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[EveningStar]

ping