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This is a book by D. H. Lawrence that he considered his best work, in it examines relationships and societal expectations between men and women, and even men and men. There is not much plot and it is heavy on character development. The author spends way too much time talking about love on some meta level that leaves the reader exhausted as does the back and forth of these relationships between two women (sisters) and two males (best friends) in this industrial town of coal mining on the edge of
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Dull. Dull. Drudgery. Uninteresting. Dull. I would describe the book this way, but that may be a tribute to Lawrence's writing style. And is perhaps the thing I enjoyed most about the book. He uses words in an interesting way, often repeating the same word several times in a sentence of paragraph. At first I hated it, but it soon grew on me and I found it powerful. Still it wasn't enough to save the book for me. I will say this: if the entire book read like the last 40 pages I would have liked i
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I didn't find this book exactly bad, per se, it's just another character-driven novel (I prefer plot-driven, personally). But I won't say it's well written either. It's kind of a hot mess, honestly. Darkness! Loins! Love! Hate! Indecision! Sneaking! Unhappiness! Indecisiveness! And did I mention Darkness? Various plot lines lead nowhere--what is the point, exactly, since there isn't even an overarching plot that needs a bit of info to work.
This book is so obviously intended to have symbolic mean ...more
This book is so obviously intended to have symbolic mean ...more
To modern readers, Lawrence may seem slow and over-blown and sexist. WiL is an exploration. What IS love, anyway? How do people assert their wills and resist the will of others? Feelings interpreted through words, imagery, metaphor are Lawrence's means of exploration and one feeling may involve several paragraphs. This seems reasonable to me. A writer could probably devote an entire chapter to one feeling, one conflict of wills, followed through characters' nervous systems and what their minds a
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