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Summary: my favorite book
Review: a wonderful work of love. no greater love story written
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Summary: What's everybody's problem?
Review: This book is so obviously brilliant, soulful, real, intense and true. If you had to read it for some assignment in school and didn't like it, maybe you should keep your thoughts to yourself instead of disputing it. As Bob Dylan said, "don't criticize what you can't understand". Sure, everybody has a right to their opinion. But being assigned a book means you have no choice, and therefore are maybe predisposed to not like it. Paul's agonies over Clara and Miriam could be happening to any guy, today. Lawrence cuts right to the bone of relationships, and anyone wanting to understand that immeasurable gulf between men and women would do well to read this book, not because I or anyone else tells you to, but because it's true and real.
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Summary: Such a waste, EXTREMELY TEDIOUS
Review: It's so bad. I can't believe it's in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels. Utterly, terribly dull. Plods along like an old horse. If you are looking to read Lawrence, I would recommend The Man Who Died.
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Summary: A Gutless, Dull and Pretentious Novel
Review: D.H Lawrence has obviously, with this book, created some kind of magical formula: rambling, wittering prose with no real direction can suddenly be accepted as an important novel. Why is this book taught in schools? It's style favours that of the long-winded, ill-thought-out mood-building, yet where Lawrence fails is in his descriptions of the characters within the book. They actually have very little depth. It has been said that this book is autobiographical. This suggests to me that Lawrence knows his characters so well, he expects the reader to simply know the characters, beyond the description of them as "happy" or "sad". It occurs to me that Lawrence simply spewed his thoughts out on to the page when writing this book, and what dull thoughts they were.
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Summary: absolute truth
Review: To those who've criticized the novel, saying that Gertrude Morel was far to harsh on her husband, have obviously never lived in the type of family situation Lawrence depicted so well. Morel's obvious internal struggle with herself and her family were beautifully portrayed. Lawrence delved into the psyche of both individuals astonishingly well...causing me to see the truth in my own family. Great books are meant to inspire thought, and Sons and Lovers does just that.
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Summary: I think that freud does not have an influence
Review: It is just the unconsciousness of paul that push him to behave like that with his mother ,because they have a very close relation ship .he is at the place of his father ,since his father does not exist mentaly .It is not an act of freudian analysis
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Summary: PAUL is torn between two forces
Review: The forces that D.H evoques is the forces of the body &spirit .PAUL'S love is spiritual .D.H is against christianity ,he does not want to neglect the body .THEnovel could not be in the circle of freudian analysis , because there is a spiritual influence from the mother before being born
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Summary: D.H psyccho- aanalysis is a discovery of the unconscious
Review: D.H has the intention to destroy realism .He wants what is physic than human .D.H describes Mrs. Morel as she is the bearer of culture .But she is suffering from a certain void
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Summary: beautiful, slightly twisted and tragic
Review: The words beautiful, slightly twisted and tragic embody Paul's inability to love other women as he loves his mother in Sons and Lovers. Freud would have had a field day with this novel. In spite the sexual overtones or perhaps in part due to them this book has a wonderful "feel" to it. Lawrence weaves a wonderful tale which everyone who enjoys a good book should read.
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Summary: Old don't mean good
Review: I wish I'd lived around the turn of the century. Then I could have gotten any piece of tripe published, judging by this novel. Were standards just lower then? 'Sons and Lovers' is the long winded cause of an uninspired idea. DH Lawrence took the members of his family, attached an 'emotion' to them, then narrated his life (slowly) repeating this emotion (the 'I may be poor but you can't take away my dignity' mother, the 'I'm going to drink to hurt you' father, the sensitive son, whatever). The book's tension is portentous and its prose is artless save an occasional lapse into the countryside (how many ways can you describe green hills and wysteria? someone should have told Lawrence, not many). My theory is that 'Sons and Lovers' falls under the Gatsby effect - since it's taught so much in high school it is often one of the first novels people read. And the first novel you read to learn the way novels work will always feel the quintessential, even when the sad truth is there are probably more skilled manuscripts passing by publishers' desks everyday. Someone just hit that banal note first.
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