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Summary: This book will make you blush!
Review: An excellent rendition of the love stoften ory...but with a twist! I absolutely loved it. This book is often overlooked, but it is well worth the time taken to read it.
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Summary: Exquisite
Review: This is a beautiful novel that is fragile yet steel-strong. The emotions of its characters are extremely well-developed, for e.g. Connie's dogged loyalty towards Clifford in the beginning turns slowly into doubt, and finally into contempt. This is a novel about the path to freedom, not only sexual freedom, but freedom from pressure, from rules, from the chains of life and society. Although there are only 3 main characters: Connie, Clifford and Mellors, this book does not bore me. Some authors may kill the novel when handling so delicate a subject, but Laurence not only allows the emotions of his characters to live, but also gives them room for expression. Connie's sexual desire is placed in the context of an England that is slowly being brutalised by industrialism, and the author expresses his horror against this world we had created through the eyes of Connie. As Connie is slowly being suffocated by her husband, I feel, surprisingly, not hate for Clifford, but a strange pity. This book sparks neither love nor hate for its characters, but the reader is able to weigh them at their true value. In this way, the novel itself is never overpowered by the strength of its characters. The author allows us to find our own freedom while Connie seeks hers. This book improves with a second reading. At first the characters seem rather detached, but later they fitted out wonderfully. The language, of course, is beautiful. Everyone is in their own way suffocated by something, and that is why as a teenage reader I can relate myself to Lady Chatterley.
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Summary: Ambiguous
Review: I love Lawerences poetry, so I figured I would also love his best novel. I was disappointed. The book was very honest about human nature and feelings. The language was very beautiful also and very descriptive in nature, however as I am still in my teenage years I believe the whole love story plot was just too much for me. Even though it was presented in a very realistic manor, I just couldnt get into the story. I do not hate the book entirely. I loved many passages, but the plot made me want to skim over certain parts. I do believe I will stick to his poetry for now on.
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Summary: A book to be read and re-read
Review: One can learn so much from Lawrence's wonderful sense of feminine intuition about people, love, circumstance, politics, environment and the choices humans make, that one read of this book is simply not enough. Personally, I have read this book eight or nine times (usually once a year)and never tire of Lawrence's insight into human nature and why we do the things we do. Don't let the title fool you. This book is much less about sex than it is about us taking charge of our own destiny and not letting the machinery of life bog us down. If you are at a crossroads in your life, you must read this book. If not, you will still enjoy this novel greatly. It is highly recommended. If I could, I would give it ten stars!
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Summary: Often overlooked
Review: This fine book is often overlooked as a commentary on the class structure that separates Connie and Mellors. Crude as he appears, his senses are in some ways more refined than hers, and by sexually enslaving her, he turns convention on its head. The falsity of the social divisions between them makes the reality of their love even more intense. I've recommended this book to Sociology and History students studying this period, and they have thanked me for helping them understand the complexity of inter-class relations in a painless and entertaining way.
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Summary: A provocative, thoughtful, and titillating book!
Review: In "Lady Chatterly's Lover", D.H. Lawrence has written a wonderful story which is based on depth of thought and feeling, rather than conventional moral attitudes. If more people thought for themselves about love, lust, and relationships, as Lawrence obviously did, we'd have a lot fewer dull, soul-killing marriages and a lot more happy people in the world!The ulimate message of this book is that nurturing (sexually and otherwise), honest, and loving relationships are a lot more important than conforming to society's expectations of behavior. Amen!
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Summary: Conscientious, intense.
Review: Consuming and conscience prodding.Vivid flowing narrations though the writer's objective to include simple scripts did little to undermine the thinly veiled guise of an otherwise shocking and profound story.Good read.
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Summary: A most honest book ever written on sensuality and morality
Review: I read the book some years back and it was without doubt one of the most unforgetable book ever written. Its unabashed sensuality makes a mockery of our prudish system even today. This is a definite must-read on the complexities of human nature, morality and unbridled passion.
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Summary: Worthy Philosophical Novel
Review: Lady Chatterly's Lover is a philosophical novel that asks questions about values and what makes a good life. In it, D. H. Lawrence considers the intellectual life and finds it arid and unreal. (Here, there is an extended, unflattering discussion of the self-promotion that a successful writer must engage in.) He then considers the effect of technology on modern life and finds that it has diminished our human qualities. Finally, he advocates a return to a simpler life where people will meet their deeper needs rather than seeking the superficial things that money can buy. The author thinks that sex has to play a pretty central role in a complete life, and he's probably right about that, but he has some very specific ideas about sex that sound odd to us now. The author also looks deeply into the dynamics of relationships between men and women and explores what we are like, why we have trouble understanding one another, and how men and women can complement one another. Finally, there is a fair amount of racy language and action that, of course, earned this book its notoriety. I enjoyed this book a great deal and I think that the author's critique of modern ethics deserves some attention. It is a mistake to dismiss this book because of its overtly sexual themes.
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Summary: She had never been loved before
Review: Lady Chatterley's Lover is not my Lawrece's favourite - see "Women in Love" for that honor-, but I think it is a very great novel, and it is praised as his best. Although the title mention The Lover, in my opinion the book is about Lady Catterley herself. It is very interesting to imagine the effect the story might have caused on people by the time its was first published. It's known that the author had many problems in order to get it released and had to use his own money to get it printed.Even nowadays, Lady Chatterley may shock some puritans, but its effect would never be as strong as in 1928. The large use of slang names for private parts sounds a bit funny, but still disturbing. After finish reading the book, the mainly feeling I had was: selfshiness. All characters most of the time just worry about themselves. On the other hand, I would read very naive if I believed that human beings are not natural born selfish, consequently, people in this book are very close to people we met on the streets when it comes to feelings and emotions. Clifford, the husband, is disgusting. He is a British aristocrat and as so he looks down on everybody all the time.Nobody is good enough to be an equal. Mellors, the lover, appeared to be very polite and open minded in the beginning, but I change my mind in the middle of the novel, after Lady Chatterley spends a Sunday night with him. He sounds very sexist and racist in his speech. However, I think that was the common sense by that time, today readers may feel a bit unconfortable with his opinions- as I did-, but he can still be taken to. But the real 'star' of the novel is Connie, yes, I am talking about Lady Chatterley herself. At first, Clifford takes it out on her all the time- and I felt sorry for her. Later, she finds a new love and starts living her own life - this is the best part of the book. We can't run her down having the love affair because she had such a boring and senseless life before Mellors. By the end - I won't give it - she is not the same person. Some nice twists are saved for the last chapters, what makes the reading much more interesting. I highly recomend this book for whose who are not afraid of reading - and discovering - about sex.
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