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A review by ladyonequestion
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
4.0
Edit: After reading The First Women in Love and re-reading this, and from reading about the background to this, I changed my opinion about it and it went up to 4 stars. Okay, the characters are still way too verbose and can be quite unpleasant at times, but somehow there are elements that get through about Lawrence's feelings about sex, love and relationships. This was a very brave book considering some of the plot elements. Also, I do think it's the Delphi edition that seems to like caps! The centaur edition of the First Women In Love didn't have them. I found it very interesting to see the changes, but I have to say DHL was a bit too keen on the old rewrite - think I preferred the First edition of both this and Lady Chatterley's Lover, though I understand he had reasons for changing the both.
Ok, so writing about love between men was a brave choice for Lawrence to make. Unfortunately, in the process of making a point some of the major stylistic elements got lost such as a coherent plot and decent characters. What you're left with is a group of snobby, pretentious narcissists prancing about Europe being vile to one another and making ludicrous pronouncements in different languages about just how tedious EVERYTHING is (I don't know if it's just my edition or if Lawrence genuinely did write some of it in all caps). I didn't particularly want to dislike it as much as I did, and I can't say I hated it, I just don't know how I am supposed to take it as a reader; whether I am supposed to find the characters this dislikeable. It's a great pity as I thought the Ursula of The Rainbow had a great deal of potential, but by the end I was left wondering where the rest of the story was and even if he was actually writing about the woman from The Rainbow or just someone with the same name. It was like he'd made his point and did feel like anything else was necessary. Anyway, I think a break from Lawrence would probably do me some good.
Ok, so writing about love between men was a brave choice for Lawrence to make. Unfortunately, in the process of making a point some of the major stylistic elements got lost such as a coherent plot and decent characters. What you're left with is a group of snobby, pretentious narcissists prancing about Europe being vile to one another and making ludicrous pronouncements in different languages about just how tedious EVERYTHING is (I don't know if it's just my edition or if Lawrence genuinely did write some of it in all caps). I didn't particularly want to dislike it as much as I did, and I can't say I hated it, I just don't know how I am supposed to take it as a reader; whether I am supposed to find the characters this dislikeable. It's a great pity as I thought the Ursula of The Rainbow had a great deal of potential, but by the end I was left wondering where the rest of the story was and even if he was actually writing about the woman from The Rainbow or just someone with the same name. It was like he'd made his point and did feel like anything else was necessary. Anyway, I think a break from Lawrence would probably do me some good.