Doris Lessing Nobel Prize Winner

[Darlica]

The British author Doris Lessing has been awarded this years Nobel Prize for Literature.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7039100.stm

Any thoughts?

Has anyone here read her any of her works like The Golden Notebook, Memoirs of a Survivor and The Summer Before the Dark?
I haven't read anything of her yet but I plan to.  Do you have a special book or short story to recommend?

[anthrobabe]

I'm like you-haven't read her work-- will check her out now.

[Swatopluk]

I know the name but nothing (to my knowledge) of her work.

Is there a leftist conspiracy this year not to award a Nobel to the US?

Edit: I was wrong to gloat, the medicine Nobel can be considered US

[Griffin NoName]

The only Lessing I have read is The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Profoundly thought provoking. So much so that I haven't had the energy to tackle any more of her books. Which probably means she deserves the prize

I claim the medical Nobel for the Brits !!! tho am willing to concede the US may have been involved.

[beagle]

I've read The Grandmothers  (short stories).  Not obviously Nobel-worthy in the way something like Lord of the Flies was.  Probably it's for the longer works.

According to the Torygraph the Czechs are lobbying for Nicholas Winton to get the peace prize, which would be nice.

[Griffin NoName]

Do you think having read one Doris Lessing is enough, or do I now need to read more to get into heaven?

[beagle]

Is that one of the criteria? Judao-Christian theology isn't one of my strong points. What happens to people born before she was published?

Reading one's probably good enough to allow you to bluff your way in a Waterstone's book signing; probably good practice for the hereafter.

[Swatopluk]

I am only familiar with Gotthold Ephraim not with Doris and he is not eligible for the Nobel (being dead) although he could have been nominated for both peace and literature, if that was no obstacle.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Edit: I was wrong to gloat, the medicine Nobel can be considered US

The peace price goes to the US (and the intergovernmental panel for climate change). I have the feeling that certain US 'patriots' will not be happy about it, though.
 

[Swatopluk]

This will clearly be considered an "anti-American" decision. Those Scandi-Commies have a notorious reputation of deliberately insulting governments by awarding the Nobel to an "undesirable" citizen of their country .
Just wait for the first "increasingly irrelevant" coming up referring to the Nobel committee.
I could not help madly grinning when I got the news and imagining the faces in the White House
for Al!

[anthrobabe]

I feel the same way

I just took a 'poll' and one of the questions was

Should Al Gore run for pres-- my answer
NO- isn't he the president already  (vote counts, chads, etc)
I'm sure I'm on someones watch list

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Aren't we all.... :\

[Sibling Chatty]

The only Lessing I have read is The Making of the Representative for Planet 8. Profoundly thought provoking. So much so that I haven't had the energy to tackle any more of her books. Which probably means she deserves the prize

I read 6 or so Lessing books a few years ago, and thoroughly enjoyed about half of them. Ths was in preparation to see the opera of The Making of the Representative for Planet 8--which was visually lovely and musically Phillip Glass  and eventually 

Couldn't get a copy of "Planet 8" anywhere...but heard Lessing give a reading from her (at that time) new novel, and had a short but lovely chat with her when she found out I was a florist...

Worth reading, I would say.