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Summary: A beautiful tale.
Review: Many people dismiss this book as nothing but pervertedness and filthiness. They fail to see the beauty of this tale. This book deserves literary merit, for it's a brave masterpiece. Not, as one prosecutor put it, "dirt for dirt's sake."This book should not be seen as a piece of work advertising pornography, but rather as a mere attack against industrialization. Perhaps Lawrence, through the tale of Lady Chatterley and her lover, was trying to bring a message across about industry (Clifford Chatterley's coal mine) and the working class (significantly the gamekeeper, Mellors). But, of course, we can't overlook the endless romance between Lady Chatterley and her lover, for it is what this story is about. The fact that it contains that little four-lettered Anglo-Saxon word that begins with an "F" is more reason why this book deserves literary merit, for it is one of the first and foremost important works of literature to contain it. Now, of course, it is hard to find a book, a movie, or a song without that famous word. If D. H. Lawrence should be remembered a thousand years from now, it should be for writing this story. He was a very courageous, very daring person to have written it. This taboo of a story is one that will stay in the reader's mind forever. (Note: If you are to read this book, I'd recommend the unexpurgated version.)
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Summary: porn classic
Review: Published in 1928, Lady Chatterley's Lover was D. H. Lawrence's last novel--it was also his most daring and blatantly erotic work. Even by today's standards, it's erotica, or "erotic romance." Like two of his previous novels, it was banned on publication, a ban which lasted until 1960. But an uncensored edition of the book was privately printed in Italy and copies were smuggled all over Europe and America. The storyline is quite simple--a bored wife out in the country married to a rich, feeble, annoying husband in a wheelchair falls in love (and lust) with the robust and exciting gamekeeper employed by her husband. Sooner or later things are bound to go wrong, and this can't end happily. This isn't Lawrence's best-written novel, but it is his most groundbreaking work, as it created decades of discussion and debate about what could/should and couldn't/shouldn't be published. David Rehak
author of Love and Madness
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Summary: what a boring book
Review: This book is famous for it's descriptive sex scenes. Everyone in Britain ran out to buy a copy after the 1960 trial that ruled the book was not obscene under the law and that Penguin had a right to publish the book in its entirety. But while it may have been sexually explicit for it's time, it's rather tame by 21st Century standards. And in any case, the sexual relations between Lady Chatterley and Mellors take up a proportionally small amount of the book. What everyone always seems to overlook is that this book is overall dreadfully boring. There are whole chapters devoted to completely asinine conversations that have no bearing on the story and make no sense. Such as Chapter 4, where several characters have a mind-numbingly dull conversation about Bolshevism. My advice, just skip these chapters. You'll finish the book a lot faster and you'll probably find it more entertaining. Still, I've never been a big fan of Lawrence and I think his books are all pretty dull and uninteresting. This is probably the most interesting of the lot (which isn't saying much), for the very reason that created all the controversy to begin with: a story of real humans having real experiences. Imagine that.
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Summary: Like a beautiful painting unfolding in your mind...
Review: This novel is not the explicit sex book that you have been led to believe. instead it is a flawless masterpiece that tells the story of Charlotte, the sexually deprived wife of an invalid husband and her search for true love and sexual fulfillment. As a woman, I have no idea how Lawrence was able to delve into the female mind so thoroughly, but so he has done. This book is a compelling argument in favor of the belief that sexual attraction is certainly one of the most important aspects when we search for a mate-despite what snobbish types may say about how looks don't matter and good sex and attraction grows with time. Baloney! Charlotte's attraction to Mellors was immediate and we watch her life developing with breathless anticipation. Some may feel the ending is too cute and tidy, but knowing the characters as they are, you feel that it could not have ended any other way. A profound book, thoroughly readable, and shockingly modern for its time.
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