Lawrence is one of my favourite authors and in my humble opinion one of the great writers and complex personalities of the twentieth century. I read this about 30 years ago and tried to re-read it recently but for some unknown reason I didn't manage to make all the way through so as I am in my summer holidays (I am a teacher in Uruguay SA) I want to read something and I'm thinking of giving it another go. Thanks for your review.
Thanks for sharing your interest in Lawrence. He's one of my favorite authors (if not #1) and love to meet other people passionate about him. Hope your summer holiday reading goes well!
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 It is and it isn't. To me, life can be really simple or really complex depending on how far you're zooming into it. What I like about Lawrence is that he captures some episodes of life that I've felt but lacked the ability to express. I do sympathize with you though that it's often nice to just take life as it is without all the intellectualizing about it. Thanks for sharing.
@@kaiynatarif2348you can ask for an interlibrary loan where if a book is available anywhere in the nation it can be sent to your library and you can check it out. I used to do that all the time when I was a poor college student.
You asked from a woman’s point of view how closely he got the female characters or how relatable they are. Even though I found the book to be well written, I didn’t like any of the characters, male or female, but to answer about the females, I couldn’t relate to any of them because their love was fickle and easily turned off. Their hearts seemed hard to me, very hard. As I was reading I was wondering if he had mother issues because his portrayal of all the women was so unfavorable.
Well I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and perspective. As for me, I was quite impressed with Lawrence's portrayal of the fickle emotions and cold hearts but perhaps that was due to me going through a very painful separation with my ex-wife at the time. She seemed as cruel or even crueler than Lawrence's characters!
@@ryfree i’m sure your experience had an impact influence on your perception of the novel and probably gave you some validation. I would have found his portrayal of women more realistic and relatable if he had had some hard hearted women because there are some cold, fickle, hard hearted women but also some other types of women. However , all his female portrayals seemed to come from the same cookie cutter. If all the women were from the same family then that would have made sense where a female line of women can all carry the same traits. That’s realistic but even the non-family female characters seemed to have these cold, hard hearts. So he seemed to paint all women with the same brush in my opinion.
@@stst77 I'm not sure if you read the sequel Women in Love, but the two sisters do indeed appear quite differently in that novel. But I can see your point and I'm sure that Lawrence's portrayals of women probably don't cover every type.
@@ryfree no I didn’t read the sequel because I didn’t particularly enjoy the first book. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t enjoy it either. I guess I like a book with at least one virtuous, respectable, or at least humorous person in it. I just didn’t find that in this book.
Lawrence is one of my favourite authors and in my humble opinion one of the great writers and complex personalities of the twentieth century. I read this about 30 years ago and tried to re-read it recently but for some unknown reason I didn't manage to make all the way through so as I am in my summer holidays (I am a teacher in Uruguay SA) I want to read something and I'm thinking of giving it another go. Thanks for your review.
Thanks for sharing your interest in Lawrence. He's one of my favorite authors (if not #1) and love to meet other people passionate about him. Hope your summer holiday reading goes well!
Love this book and your review! Best wishes
Glad to hear it, thank you!
Well done Ryan! Always fun to listen in on one of your fun book reviews! I am like number 2 for the record.
Thanks! Glad as always to hear your opinion my friend. These 'like tallies' are really disconcerting when they don't actually match up.
Reading this right now and loving it! Great review, thanks for your time
My pleasure, I'm glad you like it!
@@ryfree I read "Women in love. I'm reading "The Rainbow" now. He's not easy to understand. I wish I had Cliff Notes to Accompany my reading.
I wish you the best of luck@@jeffreykaufmann2867 and hope you catch what he's trying to convey. Also hope you enjoy them!
@@ryfree Real life is way more simple than D.H Lawrence or Henry James, etc. Too much intellectualization IMO.
@@jeffreykaufmann2867 It is and it isn't. To me, life can be really simple or really complex depending on how far you're zooming into it. What I like about Lawrence is that he captures some episodes of life that I've felt but lacked the ability to express. I do sympathize with you though that it's often nice to just take life as it is without all the intellectualizing about it. Thanks for sharing.
i am reading this novel too now. great review
Fantastic, glad you liked it and hope you enjoy the rest of the book.
Have you read The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien?
No, I haven't heard of it. Would you recommend it?
@@ryfree I certainly would.
@@ryfree A great novel but very surreal.
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Wooooooo Sir i am in love with reading but due to no money to buy such books unable and also i hate to read online books
Do you have a library near you?
@@ryfree they aren't available there i asked there too.
@@kaiynatarif2348you can ask for an interlibrary loan where if a book is available anywhere in the nation it can be sent to your library and you can check it out. I used to do that all the time when I was a poor college student.
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You asked from a woman’s point of view how closely he got the female characters or how relatable they are.
Even though I found the book to be well written, I didn’t like any of the characters, male or female, but to answer about the females, I couldn’t relate to any of them because their love was fickle and easily turned off. Their hearts seemed hard to me, very hard. As I was reading I was wondering if he had mother issues because his portrayal of all the women was so unfavorable.
Well I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and perspective. As for me, I was quite impressed with Lawrence's portrayal of the fickle emotions and cold hearts but perhaps that was due to me going through a very painful separation with my ex-wife at the time. She seemed as cruel or even crueler than Lawrence's characters!
@@ryfree i’m sure your experience had an impact influence on your perception of the novel and probably gave you some validation.
I would have found his portrayal of women more realistic and relatable if he had had some hard hearted women because there are some cold, fickle, hard hearted women but also some other types of women. However , all his female portrayals seemed to come from the same cookie cutter.
If all the women were from the same family then that would have made sense where a female line of women can all carry the same traits. That’s realistic but even the non-family female characters seemed to have these cold, hard hearts. So he seemed to paint all women with the same brush in my opinion.
@@stst77 I'm not sure if you read the sequel Women in Love, but the two sisters do indeed appear quite differently in that novel. But I can see your point and I'm sure that Lawrence's portrayals of women probably don't cover every type.
@@ryfree no I didn’t read the sequel because I didn’t particularly enjoy the first book. I didn’t hate it, but I didn’t enjoy it either. I guess I like a book with at least one virtuous, respectable, or at least humorous person in it. I just didn’t find that in this book.
@@stst77 Fair enough!
The lesbian scene today would be classified as criminal pedo because it was between a teacher and her student.