emilieanderson 's review for:

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

4.0

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This book is certainly sexually explicit, but I was surprised at the realism. It had a lot of funny and poignant passages, and there was a lot of interesting commentary on class and industrialization in 1920s England. Much of the book was a little too verbose and rambling, but it was readable and honestly fairly enjoyable. D.H. Lawrence captured, in the 1920s, some extremely on-the-nose moments of how I feel as a woman in the 2020s, and that's more than I can say for most men writing women in modern erotica.

I would also mention that there are some (albeit short) passages containing the following: racism, sexism/misogyny, anti-Semitism, animal death, and dubious consent in a sexual encounter.