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Sons And Lovers (D.H. Lawrence) - Book Review
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:20:15
Publish Date: 2021-02-13 11:30:00
Description:
If you enjoy long, boring, tedious, conversation filled books, then look no further. 'Sons And Lovers' is the fictional story of a lower class English family living in the 19th century. It revolves largely around Gertrude Morel's two sons (William & Paul) and their unsatisfying relationships due to their overbearing mother. Her prolonged estrangement from her husband and vicarious living through her sons ultimately ends in a ruinous end for the whole family.


I summarised the book as follows. "I take full responsibility for my lack of enjoyment and even the harshness of this review. After reading 10% I pretty much knew that this book had very little to offer me, but I stuck through it for the sole purpose of achieving my arbitrary yearly goal of reading 50 books. I found the writing overly descriptive and honestly think the same result could have been achieved in half the pages. Not my favourite book and one of the worst reviews I have given out in the past year."


I hope you have a fantastic day wherever you are in the world. Kyrin out!


Timeline:

(0:00) - Intro & upcoming changes

(1:10) - Synopsis

(5:18) - Stifled ambition & vicarious living

(8:25) - Asexuality; divorcing the soul from the physical

(14:09) - Evocative and enchanting scenery

(14:47) - Interactions between the characters

(18:05) - A long, boring, tedious book

(18:50) - Pragmatic outcome; no book goals


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