It is my sister's book, I like when it is a serie of books, so you do not have to stop reading a very good book!
/Hedda Ottesen, Sweden

The author explores the origin of human civilization in a most plausible way. Lessing's deft imagination synthesizes fact and ficion and urges the reader to accept the truth about the clefts and the monsters.
/Sangram Keshari Mohanty, India

According to my point of view, it points out the struggle of a writer. The way in which the author brings the story and her different experience in life is beautifully portrayed in four different colour notebooks.
/P. Vijayalakshmi, Other

This book changed my vision of the world in general, and of my world in particular. After reading it, I went through quite an important psychological transformation and decided to take control of my life, do what I thought was best for me. It was a total revelation. Since then, I stick to the task of reading as many of Mrs Lessing’s books as I can. Her writings are universal but so deeply personal at the same time. Everyone can find their own story and History through her works. 'The Golden Notebook' may not have had a good critic went it was first published because it was too much of an innovation , but nowadays, everyone can appreciate this splitting that is present in everyone of us.
/Mylène, Spain

It is such a powerful book and what amazed me the most was that at the time it was written I hadn't been borne, but I share Anna's (the main character) philosophy in so many ways. It just makes you realize how far women have come in the past decades and how women liberation has enabled me to live in a world where I can claim my place.
/Clara Quevedo, Guatemala

Doris Lessing became a kind of feminist icon after the phenomenal success of 'The Golden Notebook', but it would be grossly unfair to pigeon-hole this great work as just a feminist book. Of course, Lessing has analysed the man-woman relationship predominantly from a woman's point of view with an honesty no writer has dared to show, but this marvellous book has an equally strong political theme to it. It explores with amazing insight the collapse of the Communist ideology and how it wreaked havoc in the lives of committed party workers. Running parallel to the political angle is the theme of "disintegration" or the cracking up of the mind of an individual and the struggle for order. Above all, it's a novel which breaks new ground in terms of its originality of structure. The four notebooks the protagonist keeps to record her emotional and political life is a one of a kind technique which had never been employed by any writer before. A must-read for anyone even remotely interested in books!
/Nisha, Kuwait

This book puts me in a vivid description of a district of Rhodesia's [South Africa] economy, beauty, along with an aberrant psyche of an educated, panicky, neurotic, feminist, selfish, never satisfied, idiotic, mid-30s women (Mrs Mary Turner) with eccentric behaviour, who was brought up in a white colonial system in a female-dominated family. She usually derived by her mother's shadow – a woman indifferent to her husband's existence, who used him for money to run her family – and in her pre-marriage time led a meaningless comfortable club life from her secretarial job. When she had to face economic, and environmental struggles, poverty (according to her) in that district of Rhodesia, as she married “Dick” – a poverty laden, hard-working, considerate, soft to her, dependent on her, farmer – she could not adjust to married life. Mrs Mary Turner never considered the poor natives as human beings, or people who have to eat, take rest or sleep, and she expected much as their mistress. She appeared to me to be seductively cruel to her husband “Dick”, as well as to native African servant boys; poor people, who earn with hardship. Mrs Mary Turner seemed to me representative of women from a pseudo post-colonial system, who often lack judgment, consideration, sense and humanity. She led her life under stupid guidance and decisions affecting the life of Dick. All were probably for her sexual obsessions and fantasy. In my opinion, Doris Lessing through this novel 'The Grass is Singing' raised her voice against colonial civilization, society, education and culture, against feminism, injustice, racism and the sexual hypocrisy of upper and upper-middle class educated society. I myself consider this feminism/colonialism practice a dangerous determinant and factors for a family economics and structural persistence, for a society, for a state, for a nation. It is also dangerous for the persons himself/herself knowingly or unknowingly and for his/her surroundings. Colonialism hence must be abandoned. Among Bengalese economically independent so called 'pseudo cultured' married women, characters such as Mary Turner are not rare. In my opinion 'The Grass is Singing' thus crosses the barriers of lands, of countries.
/Professor Pranab Kumar, India