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  <title><![CDATA[Martha Quest: A Novel (Perennial Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt;Intelligent, sensitive, and fiercely passionate, Martha Quest is a young woman living on a farm in Africa, feeling her way through the torments of adolescence and early womanhood. She is a romantic idealistic in revolt against the puritan snobbery of her parents, trying to live to the full with every nerve, emotion, and instinct laid bare to experience. For her, this is a time of solitary reading daydreams, dancing -- and the first disturbing encounters with sex. The first of Doris Lessing's timeless Children of Violence novels, Martha Quest is an endearing masterpiece.&lt;/P&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1952</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Doris Lessing]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Since she won the Nobel (and received it with what I thought was funny, dry nonchalance--utterly unimpressed with herself) I finally made good on a years-old, smiling-nodding pledge to a former roommate of my brother's (Ploughman anyone?) that I would check out some of Doris Lessing's stuff.  It hel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41965131">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38567111">
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  <date_added>Mon Nov 24 16:08:26 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Nov 24 16:08:44 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It's impossible to overstate the formative effect Doris Lessing's &quot;Children of Violence&quot; series had on my adolescence. In its first book, Martha Quest, Martha's determined disillusion could have been my own. Like Martha, I was as painfully self-conscious as I was indignant. Desperately wan...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38567111">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 29 00:24:31 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Dec 29 00:24:31 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;Martha could feel the striving forces in her own substance: the effort of imagination needed to destory the words black, white, nation, race, exhausted her, her head ached and her flesh was heavy on her bones.&quot;<br/><br/>&quot; 'In the lives of most women everything, even the greatest so...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41157610">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31466630">
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 28 15:45:08 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Oct 14 13:26:57 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a story of a young girl coming to age in Africa during the time just prior to World War II.  It’s kind of hard for me to really embellish about what the story is about, because frankly, it’s pretty boring.  Martha leaves home, moves to town, gets a job, gets a boyfriend, and that’...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31466630">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30444513">
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  <read_at>Tue Aug 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Fri Aug 29 08:02:33 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the coming-of-age story of Martha Quest, who is growing up in colonialist Africa.  It follows her from the age of fifteen, as she reads voraciously and tries to define who she is in relation (or perhaps opposition) to her parents, until she is eighteen and trying to live on her own in the ci...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30444513">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="54814031">
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  <date_added>Sun May 03 14:23:11 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun May 03 21:15:19 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The relationship between Martha, Joss and Solly was the most interesting dynamic in the book to me.  Martha and Joss, what is up?  She and Solly are very similar but there is no tension.  Classic misunderstanding between a rational and two idealists.  I hope this comes up later in the series during ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54814031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="50054594">
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lessing is clearly a beautiful writer, but this is whiny and angst-ridden just like Catcher in the Rye- another book I couldn't stand.]]></body>
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    <review id="74505368">
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    <body><![CDATA[Yowza... I just realized I haven't got a single woman author on the &quot;read&quot; shelf.  Time for remedial homework!]]></body>
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    <review id="38933751">
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 27 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[irritating young martha?  no thanks.  late teens/early 20s martha?  yes please.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Got this recommendation from Barbara Kingsolvers list of 5 great reads]]></body>
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    <review id="17731351">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a coming of age story about a young woman growing up in colonial Rhodesia.  The landscape and political environment (1930s) serves as a powerful backdrop against the restlessness that the main character feels as she tries to make sense of her existence with an unambitious father, controlling...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17731351">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31485096">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This really resonated with me when I read it in college.  To be/feel so complex inside, and then be/act so inane on the outside.  The teacher for the class I read this for suggested waiting until I was older to read the next book in the series, ie, read each book at the same age/stage in my life tha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31485096">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="401822">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed it. Wish I had gone on to read the rest of the series when I still remembered the details...it's set in colonial Rhodesia (where Lessing herself lived and grew up). I heard the series continues so far into the future that it becomse science fiction..may go back and read this again s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/401822">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23689498">
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  <date_updated>Wed Jun 04 10:29:32 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book and the others in this same Martha Quest series years ago and couldn't put them down nor could I bring myself to give them away as I do most novels now, when read. A heroine with a communist orientation, she searches, loves and unloves..most of all, she's a fascinating character.]]></body>
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    <review id="7444788">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked this book, though it wasn't always comfortable to read.  It sort of reminded me of what an asshole I was as a teenager.  Which is sort of an accomplishment on Lessings' part given that I grew up in 1990s Wisconsin, not 1930s South Africa.  Although we're both named Martha, so there's that.]]></body>
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    <review id="40031802">
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sat Jan 10 19:07:37 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I couldn't figure out how I felt about Martha through most of this book.  She's prickly in a way that I completely identify with and I realized after finishing the book that I can't recall ever reading about anyone like her before.<br/><br/>I'm going to have to give this book an extra star. ]]></body>
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    <review id="16318093">
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    <body><![CDATA[I selected this for my book club because Doris Lessing won the Nobel Prize this year, and I had not read any of her fiction. I enjoyed this but most of my book club did not. They found it slow moving and dull. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not nearly as good as The Good Terrorist, but still highly enjoyable.<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kasiapontificates.blogspot.com/2008/10/martha-quest-by-doris-lessing.html#links">Full Review</a><br/>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Martha Quest was an interesting experience for me. I enjoyed being exposed to her view of Africa and look forward to reading the sequels so that I can learn more about it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think I was too young to have read this book when I did, and probably missed half of its meaning. Somehow I still enjoyed it though. Definitely worth revisiting. ]]></body>
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