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alanaleigh's review
3.0
Goal: to own all of these 70 Pocket Penguin books.
I think I have about half of them, which I consider an accomplishment, given that they are not sold in the US. Either my ex-boyfriend sent them all to me in care packages from Brazil, I purchased them when I was in Brazil, and there's even one that I bought from amazon.co.uk for far too much, but whatever, I needed to own the Alain de Botton one.
Now, this one. The first in the series of Pocket Penguins, Lady Chatterley's Trial is a highly highly abridged version of [book: The Trial of Lady Chatterley] by C.H. Rolph, wherein it describes the defending and prosecuting arguments against the supposedly obscene [book: Lady Chatterley's Lover].
It was really quite fascinating to read the arguments as to how one clears a book from the charge of obscenity... and how one seeks to uphold it.
I think I have about half of them, which I consider an accomplishment, given that they are not sold in the US. Either my ex-boyfriend sent them all to me in care packages from Brazil, I purchased them when I was in Brazil, and there's even one that I bought from amazon.co.uk for far too much, but whatever, I needed to own the Alain de Botton one.
Now, this one. The first in the series of Pocket Penguins, Lady Chatterley's Trial is a highly highly abridged version of [book: The Trial of Lady Chatterley] by C.H. Rolph, wherein it describes the defending and prosecuting arguments against the supposedly obscene [book: Lady Chatterley's Lover].
It was really quite fascinating to read the arguments as to how one clears a book from the charge of obscenity... and how one seeks to uphold it.
ahjmills's review
Very interesting from a legal aspect and in the light of digital censorship debates it proves how far we have come as a society in just a few short years? The format was v enjoyable, because the verdict of the trial was not stated until the very last page, spurring the pace on.
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