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  <title><![CDATA[Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;A sequel to Lawrence's earlier &lt;i&gt;The Rainbow&lt;/i&gt; (1915), &lt;i&gt;Women in Love&lt;/i&gt; continues the story of the Brangwen sisters in the coal-mining town of Beldover. Based in part on Lawrence's own stormy marriage to German aristocrat Frieda von Richthofen, the tale is charged with intense feelings and psychological insights. &lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1920</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[D.H. Lawrence]]></name>
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[humans]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[[author: David Lodge] ]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri May 16 13:49:48 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri May 23 19:29:11 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ever noticed how many people hate DH Lawrence? Often for opposite reasons by the way--there are those who condemn his misognyny, while others allege him to be too doting of the fair sex. Which is it? Sometimes he's damned for being too obscene, but elsewhere dismissed as overly fussy about flowers a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22388199">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23850646">
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 06 08:17:00 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Jun 07 12:15:15 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book is a slog to get through, the film version with Alan Bates is much better.  ]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="16433474">
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    <name><![CDATA[Liza]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[thinkers, feelers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Tue Mar 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Feb 26 12:24:07 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Mar 05 08:12:59 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It is seemingly impossible to summarize a book such as <em>Women in Love</em>. The book innocuously begins with sisters Gudrun and Ursula Brangwen discussing marriage. Gudrun is an artist and Ursula is a school teacher, and their middle-class status is key in their ostracism from the high-society to which th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16433474">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16433474]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="26350094">
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    <name><![CDATA[Maureen]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Athens, GA]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[everyone]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1977</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 05 06:32:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 08 11:50:15 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is like an Expressionist painting: you look at it once, and return and see something different.  The writing is lush, and almost poetic at times.  Lawrence uses the idea of the two sisters, Gudrun  and Ursula, as his canvas to explore ideas about men and women, marriage and fidelity, and w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26350094">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="31898946">
    <user id="1486226">
    <name><![CDATA[Dan]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <date_added>Wed Sep 03 07:44:29 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Sep 03 08:28:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a book about the relationships between two sisters and their, how shall we say, lovers.<br/><br/>It's written so that each chapter has dominant symbol (a rabbit, a scared horse, a wrestiling match), and I thought the symbols he chose were compelling (picture a man forcing a terrified horse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31898946">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31898946]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="34532868">
    <user id="1122018">
    <name><![CDATA[Brittany]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Fri Oct 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 04 16:45:52 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Oct 10 09:32:10 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[So, I loved this book through about the first half. I was ready to call it one of my favorite books, but then the characters changed into people that I could no longer stand to hear about. I still have to say that the book was really well-written with amazingly developed characters. Lawrence creates...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34532868">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34532868]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="182340">
    <user id="13218">
    <name><![CDATA[Jon]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Mar 06 19:08:35 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Mar 06 19:10:21 -0800 2007</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[If The Corrections has no redeeming characters, no sympathetic  inmates, what should one make of Women in Love?  Either way, Lawrence's merciless scalpel and light open dark hearts, callow souls and capricious intellects.  The climax is a good one and the novel is reasonably gripping, perhaps becaus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/182340">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/182340]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="14026674">
    <user id="853617">
    <name><![CDATA[Katie]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Portsmouth, The United Kingdom]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[sisters, brothers, and anyone obsessed with stockings]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[a charity shop]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Wed Jan 30 04:35:09 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Wed Jan 30 04:42:53 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[My first - but definitely not last - DH Lawrence. My sister and I are Gudrun and Ursula alternately. I got tears in my eyes when Birkin has a &quot;hurl my soul from heaven&quot; moment with Gerald's frozen cadaver, alternately rueing his friend's impotent death, but also his own envy of the bold fo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14026674">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14026674]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="24326744">
    <user id="1207684">
    <name><![CDATA[Bruce]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Janesville, WI]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 04 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Jun 12 09:47:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jun 12 09:50:27 -0700 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[Superb!  D.H. Lawrence at his best.  Each character is utterly individual and nuanced but cannot stand alone, being fully realized only in relationship and response to each other.  Having read the work one sees these people around one every day, and of course one also sees aspects of oneself in each...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24326744">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24326744]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="67365650">
    <user id="2626751">
    <name><![CDATA[Deanna]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[The United States]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
  <votes>0</votes>
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  <read_at>Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Aug 14 07:16:08 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Aug 30 12:59:56 -0700 2009</date_updated>
  <read_count>1</read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[First of all, this book should be called something more like &quot;I Hate You With the White Hot Intensity of a Thousand Suns&quot; instead of it's actual title. If people are really walking around with the thoughts that Lawrence writes of in this novel, I AM PERSONALLY TERRIFIED! With that being sa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67365650">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67365650]]></url>
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    <review id="4192484">
    <user id="215382">
    <name><![CDATA[Sandhya]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Pune, India]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Aug 07 04:21:44 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 07 04:23:38 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Intense, passionate and wonderfully written, this is treat for all D H Lawrence fans. I personally love the way Lawrence tackles love and relationships and delves into its complexities.]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4192484]]></url>
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    <review id="69547541">
    <user id="2591242">
    <name><![CDATA[Liz]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Singapore, 00, Singapore]]></location>        
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      <rating>1</rating>
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  <read_at>Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2005</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Aug 31 06:57:23 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Aug 31 06:59:17 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm sorry, I just don't 'get' DH Lawrence. I think he is the most over-rated novelist I've ever read. And I have tried. I'm sure he broke the boundaries of what was permitted to be discussed in the novel BUT, besides the chapter involving the boating trip and resulting accident, nothing impressed me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/69547541">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="78080322">
    <user id="2809736">
    <name><![CDATA[Allison]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Decatur, AL]]></location>        
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  <read_at>Tue Nov 17 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 17 08:53:28 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Nov 17 08:57:25 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was okay and I liked it well enough.  Again though, as with The Rainbow, I found myself slogging through the page after page descriptions and repeat descriptions and felt bogged down.  I still like the characters pretty well and can really relate to the dynamic of really flawed people who are in ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78080322">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78080322]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="53974829">
    <user id="381853">
    <name><![CDATA[Emm]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Salt Lake City, UT]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Apr 25 20:03:48 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 06 01:13:09 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm utterly ambivalent about my feelings towards this book. It was delightfully homoerotic and delivered on its promise of scandal; however, the unending emotional and philosophical roller-coaster became a bit too much. I'm loath to admit that I stopped about 70 or so pages from the end. It may have...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53974829">more...</a>]]></body>
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</review>
    <review id="9246095">
    <user id="36106">
    <name><![CDATA[James]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[New York, NY]]></location>        
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Fruedians, people who have to read it for a class]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at></read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Nov 17 15:54:33 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 17 16:20:49 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If I didn't have to read this for a class, I probably wouldn't have finished it. A friend of mine put it perfectly when she said, &quot;Every time I pick up this book and read a little, I want to throw it against the wall.&quot; That pretty much sums it up. Lawrence's hero, Birkin, is about as irrit...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9246095">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9246095]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="8009705">
    <user id="102434">
    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></location>        
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Oct 20 23:31:29 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Mar 03 12:32:51 -0800 2008</date_updated>
  <read_count></read_count>
    <body><![CDATA[I did this book a horrible injustice by reading it beachside in high school the first time around. Four years later, I was thankfully able to revisit the novel and dedicate the proper time, thought and discussion to the dramatic inconsistency and nuanced psychology of Lawrence’s characters in a co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8009705">more...</a>]]></body>
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8009705]]></url>
</review>
    <review id="7927121">
    <user id="80124">
    <name><![CDATA[Kat]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Athens, GA]]></location>        
    <url><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/80124-kat]]></url>
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      <rating>5</rating>
  <votes>1</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Sep 06 07:42:12 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Oct 19 05:20:09 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 06 07:42:12 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I randomly picked this from one of my home bookshelves last weekend, craving something uplifting and challenging.  I haven't read a novel in 2 months, and haven't read anything truly substantive or classic for much longer.<br/><br/>I read this book in college and liked it, but was never a HUGE Law...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7927121">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is beautifully written.  You could randomly pick almost any paragraph and read it and close the book and think to your self &quot;wow, that was beautiful.&quot;<br/><br/>Of course it isn't a gripper or a page turner.  It took me over a year to finish reading this book.  That's not to say...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1013045">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some might call this book boring, but I really loved it.  Lawrence has a great way of interpreting human dynamics--how two people, on an almost chemical level, will destroy each other slowly when mixed, yet two others will combine and create a complete balance.  I think it's a fascinating truth and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46325027">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my first D.H. Lawrence, and it turns out that I like it!  The language is out of control -- the hyperbole, the chaotic mood swings, the filthy filthy non-sex.  There are &quot;loins of darkness,&quot; and they are hilarious.  While this isn't a light summer read, most interwar texts are hea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55427780">more...</a>]]></body>
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