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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
After about 150 pages, I can't bring myself to finish this, which will probably have me thrown out of all literary circles I might have a chance to come close to. The women and the relationships are just ridiculous.
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
There once was a man named D. Lawrence.
Of fustian passions he wrote torrents.
But it all was so glum,
Was a stick up his bum?
For his sex scenes were utter abhorrence!
On the other hand, there are some breathtaking passages, and his characters really live. Lawrence is the British Dreiser, although I'm probably not the first to say that.
Of fustian passions he wrote torrents.
But it all was so glum,
Was a stick up his bum?
For his sex scenes were utter abhorrence!
On the other hand, there are some breathtaking passages, and his characters really live. Lawrence is the British Dreiser, although I'm probably not the first to say that.
In the love affairs of two sisters, Ursula with Rupert, and Gudrun with Gerald, critics could only see a sorry tale of sexual depravity and philosophical obscurity.
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
slow-paced
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
As much as I wanted to like this book, I just couldn't. Like Lady Chatterley's Lover, it just wasn't that interestingly-written, and the characterisation was too complicated - I don't understand the characters' relationships or emotions for most of the book, which makes connecting with them incredibly hard. Sons and Lovers, on the other hand, I found hard work to read but rewarding, but this was just a slog. I don't expect I'll read it again, but I haven't been put of Lawrence forever yet.
Hate, hate, hate.
(The author is long-dead, I feel that I can say it.)
(The author is long-dead, I feel that I can say it.)
possibly not the most tedious read of all time, but it's a close one. some truly brilliant flashes of writing throughout (throw in palpable homoerotic longing and some ruth/naomi + cain/abel dynamics into anything to create my Ideal Text, tbh) but god did this book take its sweet time reaching a fucking conclusion. a really great conclusion. but not great enough to make up for the amount of times i requested the book to fuck off and stop getting longer (honestly!) every time i checked to see how much i'd trudged through.
you know what. i think what really pisses me off about the whole thing is the fact that lawrence's thematic love affair with ambivalence- attraction/repulsion, respect/disgust, kindness/cruelty, blah/blah- really, really grated on me, but then it turns out that i'm the one with the ambivalence issues. because i disliked this book. and yet.
you know what. i think what really pisses me off about the whole thing is the fact that lawrence's thematic love affair with ambivalence- attraction/repulsion, respect/disgust, kindness/cruelty, blah/blah- really, really grated on me, but then it turns out that i'm the one with the ambivalence issues. because i disliked this book. and yet.