![]() ![]() In this story, he latched on to the word "inchoate" which is interesting when properly applied once. ![]() Now, every writer has word crutches but Lawrence elevates it to an art form. It just felt sad and terribly juvenile as if the writer was desperately typing with one hand while staring at a scene over a guazy windowsill before someone caught him peeking breathlessly at something kind of pathetic. ![]() Even the naked wrestling in front of a fire should be, if nothing else, humorous, yet didn't even measure up to a giggle or titter. The sex, though verbose, flowery and wordy and supposedly controversial, is just so uninteresting. Lawrence's characters are just mind crushingly tedious in their self absorption. Anthony Powell's twelve novel, four Audible "Dance To the Music of Time" was over 80 hours long and threw over 300 characters at the reader/listener but at least the majority of these characters were interesting. And while far too many of the top half of this list has been books about English aristocracy, at least they are fairly interesting. For the love of all that's literary, why? Every character in all three novels are unlovable, unredeemable and narcissistic as only the privileged class can be. So far, I have endured Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, and this, Women in Love, all of which are placed at the #9, #48 and #49 of the Modern Library's Top 100 books of the 20th Century. This may be sacrilege to publicly admit, but D.H. ![]()
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