Talk:Shikasta

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March 31, 2011	Good article nominee	Listed

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GA Review[edit]

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Reviewer: Johnfos (talk) 01:36, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Seems like a fascinating book. Article is nicely illustrated, thoroughly researched and well written. Broad in coverage with a substantial amount of detail also. Good referencing. Neutral and stable. Passed. Johnfos (talk) 03:35, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking the time to review this article and for the GA pass. Much appreciated. —Bruce1ee^talk 06:01, 31 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It is a fascinating book. Glennizen32 (talk) 08:33, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Excessively didactic novel[edit]

I have admired Lessing for many years and read most of her novels. However, I have given up on Shikasta, after my fourth or fifth attempt over thirty years. This time I tried harder and reached p.179. There are some attractive passages but overall she writes like Jonathan Swift without his wit, imagination and satirical genius. This novel is mainly (at least the first 179 pages) a dispiriting rant. It is not the ideas that I object to, but the uninteresting ways they are mostly presented. I might add that I enjoy science fiction novels. I cannot be the only one who sees Shikasta as a failure and the article needs to address such criticism better. Rwood128 (talk) 01:28, 5 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Who says it's an allegory?[edit]

Lessing herself never did. Gray's review in 1979 says she was writing a "history of earth" (past and future). The interpretations that this is an allegory belong in the Analysis section, not in the lede or background sections.Martindo (talk) 02:27, 13 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]