Women in Love in Reading 1001

Dec 31, 2017 Jen rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001, fiction, literature, classic, british-literature, relationships, love, 20th-century, sexuality, 1001-challenge

Well, I finally finished. This is not my sort of book at all. I found it incredibly dull, did not feel connected to any of the characters and had mixed feelings about the writing. There were some beautiful passages describing landscape and some amusing dialogue but other sections that were repetitive (the word "loins" 7 times on one page) in ways I did not care for.

The novel itself was really dense and I probably didn't understand enough of it to make a fair review since half way through I start ...more

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Feb 17, 2016 Pip rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001-books-challenge

It is interesting to re-read a book 55 years later. My eighteen-year-old self wondered at how Lawrence was able to understand the conflicts of my own experience of being madly in love and willing to die for the beloved and fiercely wanting an independent existence simultaneously. Lawrence explores the deepest recesses of the mind and how emotional responses can be deeply yet contradictorily held. If action and excitement are what you require in a book, or a romance about relationships, then thi ...more

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Apr 08, 2018 Kaycie rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001_read

Three stars only in comparison to "The Rainbow", because I was expecting more of the Ursula I remembered from that novel. She was present here, but only in clips and brief glances.

I did still love the flowery prose and the deep, examining look into the minds of the four main characters of the novel. Really incredible ability to grasp the intangibles of our mental workings and put them into words. ...more

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