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But a great deal of us is together, and we can but abide by it, and steer our courses to meet soon. John Thomas says good-night to Lady Jane, a little droopingly, but with a hopeful heart.
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A list of 10 of the most #controversial books of all time for today‘s prompt 🚫📚
https://thelistwire.usatoday.com/lists/10-of-the-most-controversial-books-of-all...
The story concerns a young married woman, the former Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class baronet husband, Sir Clifford Chatterley, described as a handsome, well-built man, is paralysed from the waist down because of a Great War injury. Constance has an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes.
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I think I have a better appreciation of this, having read it with others for #sundaybuddyread, and I‘m happy to have read it… but too much of it just seemed to be written just to be inflammatory without enough substance in the primary, surface-level plot for me to like it. Plus just far too much talking to appendages rather than to people… 😵💫 thanks for the push to check it off the list, @TheBookHippie 😅
It's definitely not my favorite classic. I can see why it has been banned so much 🤦🏼♀️But I'm glad I finally read it and am even more glad that it was a #SundayBuddyRead
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August reads. The tagged book is the only one I didn‘t like 🤣 I read one more, but there‘s no cover art yet so I didn‘t include it 🤣
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This is a pick for the awesome book discussion and a pick for the themes in the book, there is lots to discuss and think about. Glad I read it but it‘s only a so so for the story.
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Finished for #SundayBuddyRead & while I‘m glad I finally read it (after picking it up in high school & then putting it back down unread) I didn‘t enjoy it. I found Lawrence‘s writing overwrought & all over the place & while I admire his social commentary & daring to write this book in his era, no character is likable & the sex scenes it was banned for are not sexy. The best part of the book was the weekly discussion.
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I thank you for SUNDAYS from the bottom of my heart!!! I love our talks … ♥️
So, if you feel like you've wasted your time with this book, that it's just a bunch of people doing things with no real purpose, congratulations: you get it. With the breakdown of the social structures of aristocracy, marriage, and even nationhood, there's no clear path for people to follow.
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We‘re more well read now… 🤣
Honestly the sex part was graphic or whatever but I don‘t think that‘s the point of the book- at all.
You?
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Ch 19
So Clifford refuses divorce
Plays with his nurse🥴
Connie comes back grabs her personals with Hilda and goes to Scotland
Mellors works a farm
A letter
The end
Wait WHAT?!?!
The book is supposedly written in the style of :
THE MODERN CONDITION
https://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/engl_258/modernity%20&%20existentialism.htm
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Ch 18
I‘m going to have a child…that was the PLAN initially - right?
Sir Malcolm a tad uncomfortable for me 😳🥴
Mellors visits
Mellors & Sir Malcolm have drinks🍻🥃🥃
A plan is hatched with Duncan
Oy and vey
Discuss 😬
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Ch 17
Venice 🇮🇹
She did not mention her pregnancy even to Hilda
And now she‘s sorry-
Did we know she was pregnant and I missed it?! 😵💫
Mellors wife …. And the scandal and ruckus of it all
And the letters and Clifford ….
And …WHEW
Duncan
The artist
Another character to not like …
Whelp what do we think of Venice ?
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Ch 16
Hilda arrives
Meets Mellors
And WOW she‘s a bit uppity 😵💫classism much?!
One last night together👀
Registered letter from Canada…
What do you think of Hilda ???
And phew…. Goggles for a disguise?
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Ch 15
Coal
Industrialism
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/interwar-coal-mining.ht...
Impending war
Hilda is coming on Thursday 👀
Pontoon game
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontoon_(banking_game)
Mellors and his Colonel- he loved him dearly
Mellors filed for divorce
Rain games
Forget me nots
Bits and bums
Whew -this read was way more than we anticipated. Any ch 15 thoughts?
This book is such a muddle. Some passages of truly beautiful prose & lucid insight into the human condition, marred by a terribly ugly & reactionary worldview that made me feel trapped by a heavy sense of desolation as I read it. It's definitely a glimpse into the tortured psyche of D.H. Lawrence. But ultimately what comes through is a general hatred of people, especially "weak" people, & the types of difference that make people human & flawed.
3.5 ⭐️
I can see why this book was banned with all of the sex scenes. Even I was surprised of the details it had for that time period. I really liked D.H. Lawrence's comments towards sex, gender equality, social class, and industrialization. What I was not too fond of was of Connie and Clifford. They irritated me.
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Having made copious notes, where do I start to sum up my thoughts and feelings? I was surprised there was no firm final tragic parting of the lovers, as the text occasionally seemed to be leaning and which I think historical classics are often guilty of.
I feel like as forward thinking as Lawrence may have been in his day, he's so far behind where we are now in relation to sex and gender that I can't sing his praises. 1/?
A distillation of the rest of the novel: some good points buried in a bunch of antiquated attitudes I can't get on board with.
Fighting back against piracy of books such that artist gets his due royalties 👍🏻
Not bowing to censorship because his book says what it need to say in exactly the words used👍🏻 1/?
Yes it's Saturday. Sorry #sundaybuddyread , just need to be done with this one.
Notes for Chapter 15 to End.
Final Review will come after reading 30 page A Propos from author found at the end of my edition (maybe every edition? 🤷🏼♂️)
Notes:
WAY too obsessed with the symbolism and imagery of genetalia around power and liveliness vivacity, an offshoot of toxic masculinity?
1/?
This made me WAAAAAY too angry to be a pick. But I am glad that #sundaybuddyread gave me an excuse to reread it after all these years because it definitely got me thinking and there actually were some aspects that I appreciated. Looking forward to seeing what everyone thought about the last section tomorrow.
An early proponent of 'unchecked growth is not a sustainable business/economic model'? 👍🏻
This is both incredibly readable and entirely unmemorable.
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The only good part of this book is talking about it on Sundays #sundaybuddyread thankful I‘m finished
“Because if once the men walked with legs close bright scarlet, and buttocks nice and showing scarlet under a little white jacket: then the women 'ud begin to be women.”
Um. Wut. 😂
Determined to finish this today for this month‘s #sundaybuddyread I‘m at Panera to start (shocker, I know) and I‘ll move to Starbucks if necessary🤣
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She just left for Italy and it‘s all I can do not to shake the book and scream at her to just disappear down some out of the way canal and never return 😂😅😫😵💫🤐
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Making bookmarks … maybe a tote… see you SUNDAY 🤐🤫🤐🤫🤐🤫🤐🤫🤐
My summary goes like this: Intriguing…. Boring, mild erotica, boring, WTF? boring, class resentment, mild erotica, racism, more mild erotica, misogyny, boring, WTF?, intellectual twaddle, WTF?, some more mild erotica, quick trip to Venice, boring. The end.
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I gave two stars for his mastery of language.
I didn‘t love this but I didn‘t hate it either. Of course, we all know how widely this book has been banned because of all the sex that takes place, but there really is more going on. Societal and gender norms, class prejudices, and the downfalls of industrialization to name a few, and these issues are still happening today. I did enjoy reading with the #SundayBuddyRead crew!
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I can definitely see why this is a classic as well as why it caused such a stir as it could still hold up in both cases in modern times. Some very interesting views on gender norms, societal classes, and sex. Read for #sundaybuddyread
I was surprised at the number of socioeconomic issues raised by this book, including class prejudice, sexism, the evils of industrialization and wealth disparity. I found the book to be a bit boring, and every character annoyed me - they were all so self-centered. But I admire Lawrence's ability to make us think about the issues, which are still relevant a hundred years later. ⬇️
Ch 12- 14 Notes
Amazing how easy it is for a character to decide that sex is absurd or undignified when they're not enjoying themselves. Amazing how easy it is for intimacy to get tangled, maybe it's an ace view, but Connie seems to be having a sadder time because she's convinced intimacy might come from sex, rather than being a reflection of an existing intimacy. 1/?
Such an excellent distillation of earlier concerns raised by Connie and comeback against the BS Clifford was spewing this chapter - if only she hadn't ended it on the next page with some blatant antisemitism. 🤦🏼♂️
Food also spoilers https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/07/31/cooking-with-d-h-lawrence/
https://bookshop.org/p/books/d-h-lawrence-an-unprofessional-study-anais-nin/1084...
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My thoughts reading this week
“RUN CONNIE RUN get out of there and don‘t look back ..”
Your thoughts ? What do you think women reading this in the time it was written thought?
I‘m sure I missed things what did you get from this weeks reading ? The classism sexism is a wow… but not unusual and yikes still today.
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I have no memory of this book and I certainly don‘t remember this much sex in it. That being said, it doesn‘t read as a romance novel to me not -that I read romance ever -but isn‘t romance happily ever after? I can‘t see that here… you? I can‘t even see happiness, love or true desire of connection do you? Is sex the only thing they both control? Other thoughts ? 🤷🏻♀️
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Chapter 14
Mellors wanted a woman who wanted him sexually..
Clifford has no balls ..👀😬💀
Mellors marriage and past loves.. Oy.vey.
So she wants to live with Mellors forever … or she enjoyed nakedness 😅
So, he‘s a reader.
Thoughts on Mellors ?
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Pushing and obstinate man up the hill…
Connie hates Clifford
Connie‘s reality hits
How will this change the narrative ?
Proust is mentioned …