Sons and Lovers is one of the most boring books I have ever read. It goes on, and on, and on... if its narrative has a beginning, a middle and an end, the first 520 pages are all beginning. The last 24 may have been much more interesting but by the time I got to them, I'd lost the will to live. I only finished because it was on my A level reading list, but after about 200 pages I could happily have slit my wrists. I dislike all of the D.H.Lawrence's long novels that I've read (although his novella The Virgin and the Gypsy was quite good) because they just keep going for hundreds of pages and nothing happens.

I didn't find the characters interesting or the plotline realistic - I don't think Lawrence succeeded at all in projecting the most perverted aspects of his personality onto a character that, without them, could have been so much more. In trying to make them seem realistic and normal, he only made them tedious and unappealing