sn00ter 's review for:

Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

4.0

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This was the first 'classic' book I've read in a while and I quite enjoyed it. As usual the quite dense prose was hard to get through at times but overall the themes of this book and the characters and made it interesting. Any book that makes you want to go away and read about interpretations and critiques must have something going for it. I must admit that I missed some of the less obvious imagery and metaphors but even so this was a book that made me think about relationships and how it must have been in working class England at the start of the 20th century. Well worth reading and studying. My one criticism is that I didn't actually like Paul Morel and, whilst a valid point throughout, I found it repetitive how often one character was described as both loving yet almost hating another.