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    <body><![CDATA[I really liked this book. It might have something to do with the fact that I read it all in one go, which tends to completely absorb you in the world, but I got really caught up in it. Finally, a dystopia which owes nothing explicit to Nineteen Eighty-Four, something original! A modern, British dyst...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36123806">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ذكرتني في جوها المستقبلي المتنبئ بالمزيد من الحرب والضياع بشئ من جو 1984 لأورويل (التي هي علامة بحد ذاتها للتنبؤ أو تخيل الأوضاع وماستؤول إليه أحوال البشرية مع تطور ال...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67540687">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<p>When I tell others that I am reading Doris Lessing, most people give me a blank stare. Either they have never heard of her, or they have. But, never anything more. I only know one other person who has read Lessing, and that is my my professor of Practical Criticism. And, she is the one that recommen...</p><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59948028">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am ridiculously stalled out on this... the writing is just stupidly dense in some ways, and I'm having some problems identifying with the author and her subject. I asked the person who gave me the book for any suggestions, and she told me to just read it, enjoy it, and then read it again to get a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37840626">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Doris Lessing and I... we don't mix too well. I can see her excellence as a writer--she creates the most vivid, extraordinary yet believable worlds. Reading her work is the closest I can think of to dreaming while awake.<br/><br/>But in the two Lessing books that I have read, I could not see where s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23578637">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Futuristic novel by Ms. Lessing.  It's my first experience with her.<br/>It's confusing with its switch between fantasy and reality.....but it gives a vivid picture of a society which has destroyed itself. Smacks a little bit of Lord of The Flies.....People become savages when law and order disappe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56801083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a post-apocalyptic world, a grown-woman, a girl and the girl's lover learn how to survive by escaping to an &quot;inner&quot; world in which they can explain themselves and the dreadful situation around them; however, in order to achieve that they have to learn to accept and love one another firs...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Couldn't read this book at all when it was assigned to me in univ.  Then some years later when i suppose my mind was ready for it i read it avidly.  And have since reread it.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[دوريس ليسينج الحائزة على جائزة نوبل للاأدب في لعام 2007 تصدر روايتها الجديدة مؤخرا بطابع أقرب الى السرة الذاتية لها...رغك ما تخللته الرواية من سرد مطول بدى بنكهة انجلي...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44416603">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[That ways of personal and political survival are often as much magic as anything else.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[love it!  Doris Lessing was clearly so ahead of her time.  What a visionary.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book for my Contemporary British literature class. Out of the whole fabulous book list, it was my least favorite. I have always liked Doris Lessing's books, but maybe I just became fatigued at the end of my semester, I really find this book's vagueness irritating. I like it fine, but not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3251931">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Absolute classic.  Inspired me to write.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's hard not to echo a lot of the previous comments on this book: the novel is an adept meditation on a collapsed society; pleasantly dream-like and gauzy in parts, but often so vague that it hardly seems worth the effort to recover the buried meaning.  But that's okay.  Lessing writes with such cl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37268664">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i did not bother finishing this as it just wasn't going anywhere. at least i couldn't see where it was going. and i didn't want to hear any more about the imaginary room that may or may not have been imaginary. bah.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I probably never would have chosen to read this book (not a fan of dystopia) but it was a book club pick. I liked it more than I thought. It took a while but I really started to enjoy how the author wound about in her descriptions and explanations. I would have given it 4 stars but the end had me sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20054786">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have to say that I'm not a big fan of this book. The lessons seem to be a little too obvious and transparent, the allegory too much in-your-face. I did like the downplayed social chaos - sci-fi books tend to go over the top, and this one was very restrained. Altogether though, I pretty much suffer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28608637">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Memoirs of a Survivor is a very interesting and somehow different book. It says a lot about the essence of our civilization, about social construction of the world and also about possible future catastrophe that might ruin it.I found in it also some elements from feminist and socialist doctrine...If...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36808191">more...</a>]]></body>
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