This wasn't quite what I expected. It is certainly difficult to see what made it quite so controversial when first published; the sex is by no means explicit and is dealt with briefly. Maybe the fact the lady of the house had an affair with the gamekeeper worried the solid men who argued against it....
I got 200 pages into this one mainly based on Lawrence's writing. I do like the way he forms sentences.What I did not like was the romance. It wasn't a romance. It was a Doomed Attraction between two people who didn't seem to like each other very much. Lady Chatterly was fine, then she annoyed me. I...
This book left me utterly speechless, gaping like a guppy, scratching my head, and wondering why it’s such a favorite. I’m still looking for an answer.I read this as part of my It’s Taboo! reading challenge as a banned book. No wonder a PWP (weren’t Brits supposed to be cold fish?) with a strangely ...
Engaging and unique. Lots of sex. Weird sex, but not kinky. Just . . . weird, like with flowers. And Lawrence likes the word "bowels." I would have given it five stars, except for two things: 1) He rambles on and on about the awful future and money, money, money bringing us all down, which is a va...
The whole book is a just an argument about the power of the mind and of the body upon each other. 'Real knowledge comes out of the whole corpus of the consciousness; out of your belly and your penis as much as out of your brain and mind. The mind can only analyse and rationalize. Set the mind and t...
It's not pornography by a long shot. Best used as an antidote to anyone's nostalgia for a simpler time. I had quite a thing for Lawrence in high school and college, at least in part because he had been scandalous.
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