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Mar 18, 2024Anita_Dickey rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
this book was banned due to its erotic nature in the victorian era when it was first published. It is very sexual. It wasn't much worse though than some of the others i've read. I don't mind a good sex scene in a book. I actually enjoy…
Apr 26, 2023
Obviously way before my time. It's my understanding this book was risque in its day.
Nov 14, 2022Sandi92683 rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
I can understand how people in the '20s would have found the vocabulary shocking, but the bigger problem with this book is how dull it is. The characters are so shallow that they might as well be called Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Their…
May 06, 2022
In high school we called this "Lady Loverly's Chatter." Just throwing that out there.
Feb 12, 2022
I read this as a teenager and thought I'd try again after 60 years. Unfortunately, this particular edition is in 8pt mouse type. I shall have to re order it in the digital version so I can actually read it. UPDATE: I read the digital…
Jul 26, 2019Carolwagers rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I found this book to be very readable, & not as pornographic as I had been !ed to expect. Lawrence has a lot to say about the time after WWI, & the war's effect on English aristocrats & intellectuals of that time. I even suggested…
theorbys
Jun 09, 2014theorbys rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
For me it got off to a rather slow and tell not show start, and the characters are not too real in one sense (everyday life), but are primordially real in another, which is a perfectly acceptable thing to do in a novel that is not meant to…
Mar 20, 2014stewstealth rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Scandalous in it's day until the 1950's, this book is relatively tame by modern standards. The author's narrative is fine however the characters are one dimensional and the conclusions debatable. Not likely this book would be considered a…
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Feb 22, 2012Janice21383 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Required reading for wives and servants. LCL caused a scandal when it first came out, and a bigger scandal when it was re-issued in the 1950s, and many fine people defended it against pornography charges. Of course, it is pornography, in…
Jul 11, 2011Claidheamohmor rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Good, if you can handle the awkwardness of the subject matter inside.
Mar 03, 2011teacupfaerie rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A liaison with a gardener no less!
Cryssers
Dec 22, 2010Cryssers rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
While not scandalous by current standards it is certainly a fabulous use of prose.
Dec 13, 2010Carrie_Jeffery rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This story was timeless in the paralells with our current crisis of heart vs. business...
Feb 24, 2009mariaf rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Obscene! I can't see this being a masterpiece of modern fiction.