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A review by aoifeh_doheny
Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
3.0
At one point I was like "Ooh, perhaps my first 5-star book of the year?" and then any of the characters would open their mouths and. You know what. Do you know what. Nah.
Every two seconds they would just "glance at the other with true contempt" or look at each other with "real hatred" and boy did that get old after 500 pages.
And I could talk about the misogyny and homoeroticism/homophobia but that's been done before so meh. I thought that actually reading the book might help me understand De Beauvoir's criticism of it ([b:The Second Sex|457264|The Second Sex|Simone de Beauvoir|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327978178l/457264._SY75_.jpg|879666]) but it didn't.
Am giving three stars because the story was compelling enough to make me read it all the way to the end but ughhhh D. H. Lawerence's way of thinking is just not one I find at all appealing.
Every two seconds they would just "glance at the other with true contempt" or look at each other with "real hatred" and boy did that get old after 500 pages.
And I could talk about the misogyny and homoeroticism/homophobia but that's been done before so meh. I thought that actually reading the book might help me understand De Beauvoir's criticism of it ([b:The Second Sex|457264|The Second Sex|Simone de Beauvoir|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1327978178l/457264._SY75_.jpg|879666]) but it didn't.
Am giving three stars because the story was compelling enough to make me read it all the way to the end but ughhhh D. H. Lawerence's way of thinking is just not one I find at all appealing.