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Summary: witty, clever, work of fiction.
Review: A brilliant, brilliant work depicting the low lifes of a woman in a loveless marriage who tries to keep a bond with the only son she can now connect to. She can't let her boy grow up! And that's the fault which makes this a witty, clever, work of fiction.
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Summary: A novel presenting strong bond between a mother and her sons
Review: The setting of the novel is in the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire area of England. The novel is the story of the Morel family. Gertrude and Walter Morel married and went to Bestwood, a mining village in Nottinghamshire. She was a well educated and refined person; he was a warm, vigorous, uneducated man. They had four children- Annie, the daughter, and three sons- William, Paul, and Arthur. As Gertrude Morel's sons grew up, she no longer felt love for her husband, and instead turned all her love and passion towards her sons. The sons grew up hating their father and completely dependent upon their mother, who became the strongest factor in their lives; as a result, when they became men, they were unable to find a satisfactory relationship with any woman. William, the eldest, chose a flignty girl who gave him physical satisfaction, but nothing more, for his soul was his mother's. The struggle of this impasse killed him. Paul the second eldest, chose Miriam, who fought his mother for his soul; torn between the two women he ultimately returned to his mother. Later, he turned for a physical relationship to Clara, an older married woman, but again he found that the ties with his mother were too strong for a succesful relationship. Paul told his mother that as long as she lived he could not live a full life or love any woman. She became ill, and Paul dedicated his life completely to her. When his mother died, he was left alone with a wish only for death.
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Summary: ?PORQUE?
Review: Hola, Mi Nombre es Juan. "Sons and Lovers" es muy Bueno. El Libro es fantastico! A must for all Spanish Uno students...
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Summary: Can we all say: "Okay, Paul, get over your mother"?
Review: D.H. Lawerence kinda scares you with this book. It's beginning chapters, while it introduces you to characters, are boring. Let's face it: Classic British Literature is boring, and Lawerence only adds to it worse. His character, Paul Morel, obviously loves his mother a BIT TOO much. I'm not saying you have to consider this bad, I'm just saying that it made the book pointless. A man, living his life with constant remorse because no other woman can satisfy due to his mother?? How sad and how pathetic. The guy lost his virginity to a girl, then LEAVES her. The book is no where near what I call entertaining or exciting or even worth reading. However, it does have one quality: If you need to go to sleep, pick up this book.
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Summary: Heartbreaking
Review: Just so tragic novel! A woman who's helplessly married to a drunk, clinging on her children, sons especially, for love and comfort. I'm only at the moment 15, but this novel just truely hurts the human heart to read...you just start thinking," How ungratful can children be?" Well, now I can relate to how mothers and fathers may feel about their "wild" teenagers...one like I.
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Summary: A Heart Wrenching Tale of Adolescence
Review: At first, I abhorred Paul, but I realized it was not completely his fault, but the other women he was involved with. His mother is a very interesting character, particularly in her twisted love for Paul.
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Summary: Not All That
Review: Sons and Lovers, while a good book, is not, in my opinion, great. The ending left me unsatisfied. I don't know whether the reader is supposed to sympathize with Paul Morel, but I didn't. I found him to be - what did I find him to be? - he is arrogant and - what were his qualities? - I don't know, just arrogant. In fact, I did not find any characters that I liked. Although you don't have to like the characters to like the book, I didn't even like the plot. It was bland. You're probably wondering why I gave it three stars. There were some parts of the book that were excellent at showing human nature and how people relate to each other. For instance, Paul was attracted to Clara because at first she was indifferent to him. It just shows you that The Rules were at work even nearly a century ago! In conclusion, I like the book, I just don't loooove the book. I also did not quite feel the relationship between Paul and his mother.
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Summary: Twisted Ending
Review: The story of a woman's life beginning from her horrid marriage to a drunk, her children's lives, and to her struggle to keep at least one son of hers to stay by her side. With the death of her smart and handsomely sucessful eldest son, her life suddenly turns cold, shrugging off the suitors of her other sons. A beautiful and emotional family story, that will leave you pondering.
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Summary: Danielle Steel eat your heart out!
Review: Sons and Lovers is intense, exciting, intriguing: cleverly sculpted scenes with double entenders indicate the sexual tensions that exist between Paul and his mother and with Miriam. This book is also a study in the shifting narrative technique; he is a pioneer and the bridge between the conventional pre-20th century omniscient narrative and authors such as Joyce and Woolf, where the very storyline consists of jumps between the personal emotions and opinions of the various characters of a novel. DH Lawrence is proof that quality literature with a distinct sexual edge CAN be produced. Bravo!
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Summary: yawn . . .
Review: --Oh! Pardon me for that rather undignified opening. Although (yawn) when I get to reflecting back on this book it seems somehow an appropriate response. It is a book about selfish and spoiled people, about elitists imagining their ideas as somehow relevent to the larger world around them and about how a little bit of education can lead to a great deal of contempt for the society in which someone is raised.Now, of course, these are valid and even potentially interesting points, but the method Lawrence chose to tell this, what I gather is a deeply personal story, is basically condescention and self-absorbsion. After about 100 pages I started dreading what was to come, which was basically more of the same alongside some predictable, tacked on melodramatic tragedy. The complication comes from Lawrence's genuine ability as a writer. There are lines--sometimes, albiet rarely, pages of pure beauty. These words came from a powerful and passionate writer who was too personally involved with the story he was telling to make it universial. I can appreciate the venting, the often conflicted outrage of the elitist scholar and budding psychoanalyist that Lawrence was later to become, but if this is a modelled story of the man's life it will ultimately take away some of the respect my reading of The Rainbow, Women in Love and a handful of his short stories had previously inspired. I can forgive the late, great author for this childish and selfish book, a mama's boy trying as hard as he can to show off how clever people have always told him he was, but I have trouble comprehending the innumerable critics and casual readers alike who boast and gloat over this story as if the triumph of personal arrogance related within somehow validated their own wavering sense of intellectual accomplishment. Two and a half stars rounded up because of some pretty writing and the apparent lasting relevence of this mostly frivilous work--
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