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izbrews's review against another edition
2.0
I didn't like D.H. Lawrence's style of writing at all. I kept thinking I was reading the same line but it was really just him repeating himself. I really disliked all the characters, Clifford is a gross rich guy with a sense of entitlement, Connie is a flaky, needy spoiled child, and Mellors is a bitter hater who blames everything on everyone else. And the sex scenes, I mean, really? How romantic that she just lies there and doesn't bring herself off, because otherwise she wouldn't be a real woman and Mellors would hate her and hate himself for having her. Huh?
I gave it 2 stars because it does show how a woman can love the body of a man and find it beautiful, which is unusual even today.
I gave it 2 stars because it does show how a woman can love the body of a man and find it beautiful, which is unusual even today.
samanne's review against another edition
3.0
Between a 3 and 4 star read. Well, I can understand why it got banned when it was published. But really, the book is about the class, social structure and economic upheaval that occurred in England from industrialization and various wars. I really enjoyed those aspects of this novel. The sex scenes were ridiculous.
chairs99's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
cspeet's review against another edition
3.0
Not sure what to say about this one. I didn't find the story all that believable, even though pars of it were beautifully written.
msmillsss's review
challenging
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.75
book_busy's review against another edition
challenging
funny
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
I really loved how D H Lawrence constructed his protagonist in this novel. Lady Chatterley is selfish, yes but it feels as if she stands more allegorically for something wholly radical. Whilst of course carnal desire in the grand scope of things ISN'T the be all end all, there's something enthrallingly anti-establishment about Lawrence's almost satirising and explosion of discourse surrounding desire. Lady Chatterley's Lover in a way is not pornographic.... it is realistic. Real people have sex every day (duh,... birth rate) and yet novels shy away from it-> Lawrence interrogates our discomfort with the reality of sex and with pretention itself in this class melodrama. I'm subtracting a star because the pacing was not wholly to my liking but generally I thought this was a real tour de force. Love love love. DH Lawrence is sort of my pal.
4.5/5
4.5/5
charliereston's review against another edition
3.0
Honestly I would’ve given this lower but there were some excellent man hating quotes, e.g., ‘that strange, hostile, slightly repulsive thing that he had been to her, a man,’ or referring to a man as ‘the creature’
jazlem's review against another edition
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
This was quite slow paced at the start and hard to get into. But half way through it started to get more interesting and I got more invested in Lady Chatterley and her affair. I think it brings up thought provoking questions around morality, mind vs body, the importance of physicality/sex in a relationship. Some of it was quite anti feminist, it seemed to push a narrative that women don't enjoy and don't want sex, but I reckon that was probably the view at the time of it being written. I can definitely see how it was ground breaking at the time, being written as Britain leaves the super puritanical victorian era and I can see why it was labelled as scandalous. I think also even though it is anti feminist in some ways, having a female protagonist have a sexual affair because she wasn't able to have sex with her husband and therefore desired sex is quite a new concept on female sexuality at the time, and I do believe Laurence was condemning the argument of sex outside of marriage being immoral. Reading this through the lens of the 2020s didn't have quite the same effect, the sex scenes and the discussions of female sexuality haven't aged that well and don't seem groundbreaking or scandalous at all. However I still think it's important to read, considering all the fuss that was kicked up over it and it wasn't published in the UK uncensored until nearly 40 years after it was written.
chaz_dance's review against another edition
challenging
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5