Take a photo of a barcode or cover
dukegregory 's review for:
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
So on the nose with its intense polemic against industrialization and its literal paralysis of the Old World, and yet Lawrence's writing is both readable and beautiful (literally just read the first paragraph: Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.) enough that these moments without subtlety work for me.
I also feel like it's quite lovely to see a novel written almost a hundred years ago spend much time attempting to describe a female protagonist's relationship with sex in a manner that is not just one to one with her male counterpart. Lawrence also literally and metaphorically builds up to an extravagant portrayal of the female orgasm, which, again, for the time, and, honestly, even now, feels deeply contemporary.
Fun read.
Merged review:
So on the nose with its intense polemic against industrialization and its literal paralysis of the Old World, and yet Lawrence's writing is both readable and beautiful (literally just read the first paragraph: Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.) enough that these moments without subtlety work for me.
I also feel like it's quite lovely to see a novel written almost a hundred years ago spend much time attempting to describe a female protagonist's relationship with sex in a manner that is not just one to one with her male counterpart. Lawrence also literally and metaphorically builds up to an extravagant portrayal of the female orgasm, which, again, for the time, and, honestly, even now, feels deeply contemporary.
Fun read.
Merged review:
So on the nose with its intense polemic against industrialization and its literal paralysis of the Old World, and yet Lawrence's writing is both readable and beautiful (literally just read the first paragraph: Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.) enough that these moments without subtlety work for me.
I also feel like it's quite lovely to see a novel written almost a hundred years ago spend much time attempting to describe a female protagonist's relationship with sex in a manner that is not just one to one with her male counterpart. Lawrence also literally and metaphorically builds up to an extravagant portrayal of the female orgasm, which, again, for the time, and, honestly, even now, feels deeply contemporary.
Fun read.
I also feel like it's quite lovely to see a novel written almost a hundred years ago spend much time attempting to describe a female protagonist's relationship with sex in a manner that is not just one to one with her male counterpart. Lawrence also literally and metaphorically builds up to an extravagant portrayal of the female orgasm, which, again, for the time, and, honestly, even now, feels deeply contemporary.
Fun read.
Merged review:
So on the nose with its intense polemic against industrialization and its literal paralysis of the Old World, and yet Lawrence's writing is both readable and beautiful (literally just read the first paragraph: Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.) enough that these moments without subtlety work for me.
I also feel like it's quite lovely to see a novel written almost a hundred years ago spend much time attempting to describe a female protagonist's relationship with sex in a manner that is not just one to one with her male counterpart. Lawrence also literally and metaphorically builds up to an extravagant portrayal of the female orgasm, which, again, for the time, and, honestly, even now, feels deeply contemporary.
Fun read.
Merged review:
So on the nose with its intense polemic against industrialization and its literal paralysis of the Old World, and yet Lawrence's writing is both readable and beautiful (literally just read the first paragraph: Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.) enough that these moments without subtlety work for me.
I also feel like it's quite lovely to see a novel written almost a hundred years ago spend much time attempting to describe a female protagonist's relationship with sex in a manner that is not just one to one with her male counterpart. Lawrence also literally and metaphorically builds up to an extravagant portrayal of the female orgasm, which, again, for the time, and, honestly, even now, feels deeply contemporary.
Fun read.