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A review by michaeltylerland
Sons and Lovers by Geoff Dyer, D. H. Lawrence
1.0
Negative stars. Truly, the only thing that kept me going was the prospect of writing a scathing Goodreads review at the end of this slog. So let's get to it!
The story starts as Mrs. Gertrude Morel falls out of love with her husband. So what's a woman to do? Of course! Transfer her attachment to her son William in an emotionally incestuous, horribly pathologic Oedipus complex. And when William dies, she transfers those same feelings to 2nd son Paul, because all kids are pretty much the same here.
As Paul grows up, he becomes an insufferable mama's boy with an inability to form healthy relationships with women. (Gee, wonder why?) There are multiple passages where he unfavorably compares his girlfriends TO HIS OWN MOTHER. Additionally, he is an execrable jerk who uses women for his own emotional ends but fails to provide them with anything in return. You see, he is VERY SPECIAL because his MOTHER SAID SO and he is an ARTIST and he SPEAKS FRENCH so all the women in town would be very lucky to have him. And because DH Lawrence was an emotionally stunted misogynistic troglodyte, all the women cater to Paul's whims instead of telling him what an unbearable toad he is!
Truly a pile of sexist garbage, unworthy of its status as a classic novel. Blegh.
The story starts as Mrs. Gertrude Morel falls out of love with her husband. So what's a woman to do? Of course! Transfer her attachment to her son William in an emotionally incestuous, horribly pathologic Oedipus complex. And when William dies, she transfers those same feelings to 2nd son Paul, because all kids are pretty much the same here.
As Paul grows up, he becomes an insufferable mama's boy with an inability to form healthy relationships with women. (Gee, wonder why?) There are multiple passages where he unfavorably compares his girlfriends TO HIS OWN MOTHER. Additionally, he is an execrable jerk who uses women for his own emotional ends but fails to provide them with anything in return. You see, he is VERY SPECIAL because his MOTHER SAID SO and he is an ARTIST and he SPEAKS FRENCH so all the women in town would be very lucky to have him. And because DH Lawrence was an emotionally stunted misogynistic troglodyte, all the women cater to Paul's whims instead of telling him what an unbearable toad he is!
Truly a pile of sexist garbage, unworthy of its status as a classic novel. Blegh.