D.H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
Published by: Penguin Group 2011
Romance
Rather negatively, i found the writing style hard to get along with in its jumpy style. Stories with a flowing style, like most classic novels, tend to hold my interest better and tend also to be clearer to understand and follow. Not only is the style and language not to my taste but the actual content does not hold my interest either. This however, is not Lawrence's fault, but just down to my individual taste.
The complex heroine Lady Constance Chatterley shifts between an emotionless and empty woman to a pathetic and needy lover, bringing contempt and frustration to the pages as no amount of lovers, money, high society or good living ever seems to make her happy. Although the sex is explicit, there seems to be little romance or even love between the characters who share these intimate moments.
I can appreciate the struggle Lawrence must have gone through to produce a novel about such a delicate and complex topic, as he talks so openly about sex and the complexity of love.
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