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3.4 AVERAGE
3.4 AVERAGE
Not technically on TIME's Top 100 but I put it there because it's a super-famous novel from the 20th century (it replaced Virginia Woolf's "To The Lighthouse" because no author should have more than one book on the list, I think).
That said, I enjoyed it about as much as I was enjoying "To The Lighthouse" so I don't know if it was worth replacing one for the other.
That said, I enjoyed it about as much as I was enjoying "To The Lighthouse" so I don't know if it was worth replacing one for the other.
I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected! The writing was really good and there was lots of character development as well as an engaging plot. I'm very pleasantly surprised :)
If you like romance novels, read this novel. It sets the stage for modern romance novels.
Sons and Lovers is a book that has been sitting on my shelf for a really long time. It describes the mother-son relationship between Gertrude and Paul Morel. Gertrude, in a unhappy marriage, depends on her sons and lives through them; Paul and William then again suffer for this passion they have for their mother and are torn between their lovers and their mother. I am in two minds when it comes to this book. I do appreciate the writing style and how well Lawrence describes sexual awakening and passion; I found myself gasping at certain places and really do think that D.H. Lawrence is a talented writer. However, I found myself very irritated by his characters, especially the male ones. Especially Paul made me angry every time he opened his mouth (which was often since he is the main character in the book). Still, it was a good reading experience and the story kept me interested even though I wouldn't read this again.
Lawrence's failed nihilism never fails to impress me.
Lawrence si riconferma uno dei miei autori inglesi preferiti. Un libro meraviglioso, come sempre l’introspezione e la natura sono i due temi principali di questo romanzo familiare. Ci siamo tutti sentiti un po’ Paul, un po’ Miriam nella vita.
This book was awful, absolutely horrid. Less so the writing style but the plot made me so mad. The men are weak, selfish, chauvinists and the women also weak, mindless and the opposite of feminists. Lawrence writes of women "sacrificing" themselves for the man they love or giving themselves up in the most awful way to the most undeserving men and it makes me so angry. The Oedipal relationship is also rather uncomfortable and the sudden changes in Paul's character just made no sense. Thank goodness it was a short book as I otherwise wouldn't have been able to stomach it.
This book was a mixed bag. On one hand, Lawrence goes into issues of religion, class, and euthanasia, which continue to be important in today's world. On the other hand, I really disliked the romance element of the book, which felt far less important than the other issues, and was often not written as well as the rest (Miriam must have gone to the eyedoctor everyday, because her eyes were so frequently discribed as "dialated" that it got distracting), and the romance elements also made most of the characters rather unlikeable. The value of the book is not made by how likeable the characters are, however, it does help the enjoyability of the book, so when, at the end, I didn't care who Paul ended up with or what happened to him, and wished Mariam would just go away, that's not exactly good.
Well written and there are interesting characters... Howevers, I passionately hated the mother and son relationship to the point of dancing when the relationship is broken apart by...
***SPOILER ALERT***
the mothers death!!!
***SPOILER ALERT***
the mothers death!!!
