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Lady Chatterley’s Lover

D.H. Lawrence

Start date: February 1, 2017

Finish date: February 28, 2017

Discussion: New School Classics- 1915-2005

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Mar 25, 2008 Brad rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: faves, notorious, meta-review, personal-mythology

WARNING: This review contains a discussion of the c-word, and I plan to use it. Please don't read this if you do not want to see the word spelled out. Thanks.

This is less a review than an homage to my crazy mother (now I have you really intrigued, don't I?)

It was 1983, and I was in my first Catholic school. I'd spent my first six years of school in a public school, but my "behavioral issues" coupled with my lack of growth made me a target for bullies, so my parents were advised to move me to ano ...more

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Feb 13, 2008 Laura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: banned-books, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, classics

Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper and embarks on a passionate affair that brings new life to her stifled existence. ...more

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Jan 02, 2020 Courtney Smith rated it it was amazing

Really loved, so many passages I thought were exactly how me and my friends think - about connection to others and our place within a community or even within relationships. The characters bemoan the loss of their life and heartiness (for lack of a better word) with the advent of the industrial revolution - and here we are - 100-ish years later and a digital revolution is upon us. Millions of phone zombies walking around (myself included!). A very timely, classic read.

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Jul 30, 2008 Suvi rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, 1900-1939, _great-britain, _david-bowies-favorites, _mad-men-reading-list

Ok. At first I actually quite liked it. When Connie arrives to the house etc. Then after the first love scene with Mellors I thought: there's something weird about this... Everything turned out even more ridiculous towards the end. The characters were uninteresting in every single meaning of that word and some parts were downright laughable. Irksome and not sure if I would recommend it to anyone, even if it's in the banned books list. ...more

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