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    <body><![CDATA[I was thinking the other day about C.S. Lewis's <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= The Last Battle" title=" The Last Battle"> The Last Battle</a>, a book which I utterly loathe. As I said in my review, you can pardon the uninspired writing or the preachiness. What gets me angry is the subplot with Puzzle the donkey, who fronts the religious coup and, somehow, is whitewashed and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38367141">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's been about 2 weeks now since I've finished The Good Terrorist, and so I'm in that place where I feel most compelled but least capable of writing a review.  Since that's never stopped me before, here goes.<br/><br/>I must applaud Lessing for her skill at creating characters, Alice in particula...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41492181">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I persevered with this because (a) Lessing won the Nobel, and (b) GoodReads makes me feel like a failure if I don't finish. I couldn't sympathise with any of the thoroughly dislikable but admittedly well-drawn characters. Its protagonist is the much put-upon Alice, a Marxist revolutionary with no cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39647941">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book Club pick for April.  80's London--what a different place!    Frustrating book, the main character is so annoyingly misguided and she makes us worry about all sorts of things that aren't her problem.  She is stressing me out!  <br/><br/>It doesn't really get any better.  At the end it is reve...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15973896">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first read this as a teenager and just started it again... the story of a british radical who is painfully co-dependent with and mothering towards her compatriots. The details of her machinations inside local bureaucracies (both governmental and social) are astounding.<br/>I wish the picture of th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8654682">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I hated this damn book. I was forced to read it for class, and now I have to write a fucking 10-page paper on it by Wednesday. Every page was torturous to read. Nothing happened until the very end, and even that sucked. I recommend that you never read this book. There was not one character or plot l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18172401">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This, my second Doris Lessing book, was certainly an interesting read. It is the story of a group of British communist &quot;revolutionaries&quot; who take over a squat in London with the real focus almost totally on one woman named Alice. Lessing describes Alice in detail through the bevy of contra...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53412410">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mother and I have resolved to read prize-winners.  Note all of the ambiguities and catch-savers in that sentence.  We did not resolve to <em>only</em> read prize-winners, nor did we specify what prizes fell into our category, nor did we specify whether we meant any book from the oeuvre of prize-winning au...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36384218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this a year ago but forgot to update it on here. <br/><br/>Lessing isn't always the most optimistic of writers and this one left me feeling sad, even if I enjoyed the book. The blurb mentions wit which misleading gives the impression this book has some black humour in it. Not sure I found tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34021526">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[One comes away from reading Nobel Prize winner Lessing's book somewhat unnerved, as it's people with a polygot group of people unwilling to accept middle class values.  They move in and out of a large house that had been scheduled for demoltion until Alice, the &quot;Good Terrorist&quot; joins them ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28018166">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm on a bit of a Doris Lessing kick.  Her characters are very well drawn and the language she uses is absolutely beautiful.  This novel featured a lot of flashbacks to give the main character depth.  I especially liked how she blocked out memories that weren't useful to her.  It was a wonderful cha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55135538">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My first Lessing, and while it wasn't bad, it didn't inspire me to go find her other works. A fairly interesting tale of a group of jobless anti-capitalists, who aimlessly rage at anything they label as &quot;bourgeois&quot;. They picket, they vandalize, but aren't taken seriously by the more organi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50186159">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Blurbs that describe this book as being &quot;convincing&quot;, &quot;contemporary&quot; or good-for-a-book-about-terrorism are damning by faint praise, in my view. <br/><br/>This book is great! An absolutely incisive account of our psychological impurities and needs, of duress, persona, our relat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61101216">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A self-consciously political novel in the almost-pedagogical style of Alfred Andersch's Zanzibar or Sartre's Age of Reason, (a style written almost always by former Communist Party members), in which different characters are also intended as types - the blustering zealot, the quiet guard of the revo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4445704">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book. It follows, and is told from the POV of, a woman who becomes involved with Communist terrorists in 70s London. It is a very intimate view and the narration offers a number of really good surprises. I highly recommend this book.<br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[for anyone who's ever been caught in the communist crossfire at a protest (never mind the police) or anyone who finds the SWP kind of humorous, even if you completely agree with them; this is really close to the ground, and shows up the maddeningly selfish side of lefty politics. <br/><br/>i tore ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30119512">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't find the book hugely engaging, but I did keep reading.  My chief obstacle to enjoying the book was my immense dislike for all of the characters.  I felt like they were really quite pathetic, and at first thought the author niave to this.  That turned out not to be the case of course, but I ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46475049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This I found at a discarded books sale sponsored by the McAllen library. Surprising, considering Lessing had been awarded the Nobel Prize less than a month previous. Librarians sometimes don't know what they have, I guess. Anyway, the book grabbed me instantly. And though the characters made horribl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10603198">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not bad. I enjoyed this look at how a highly functional dysfunctional woman in a pro-communist group lets herself get sucked into a terrorist act that kills a number of people.  Lessing paints a picture of how the group dynamics in some of these fringe-y activist groups develop.  In her case the mai...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27163560">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Solide Leistung von Frau Lessing, aber es zieht sich ein bisschen bis sie zur Sache kommt. ]]></body>
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