Sons and Lovers (Abridged) Audiobook

" A Freudian reading makes it perfect, otherwise it is boring. "

" obviously a classic. a long read, but worth it. "

" It isn't nearly as racy as the title suggested. This was recommended by my library as a "classic must read" It's about a man who it torn between the love he has for his mother and 2 women. The sex is nearly nonexistent, like they go for a walk and then he is helping her fix her hair and you are wondering why her hair got messy and then you realize, "Oh, it was that kind of walk." The ending was realistic and completely lack luster. "

" This would be in my top ten of all time novels...many slots I'd have to think about...but this one would be there with absolute certainty...he was a force of nature...I think this is the kind of naturalistic novel Zola was itching to write...and I don't think he ever did... "

" Long and laborious and a bit pointless. "

" Summer reading at the pool "

" This is an entire book about a guy who fails at romance because he's too much in love with his mother. Christ. "

" I read this on vacation -- I know it's a classic, but it was very hard to care about the main character (which Lawrence modeled after himself). "

" Eh, I really only liked some of this. I suppose I should've liked it better. "

" This book was great. I would be reading a long not paying much attention and then Lawrence would have a beautiful phrase that summarizes love or existence. The characters in the book are relatable and brilliantly complex. Miriam, perhaps the character I related the most to, doesn't belong in this world but at the same time is the most grounded character in the book. Clara, at times would make me howl at her cruelty but then pages later love her vulnerability. Paul, the protagonist at times was an evil, selfish intellectually hardened man but always to make himself feel better it seems. The chapter where his mother passes away is heart wrenching and the a brutally raw description of death's effect on a family. "

" On every side the immense dark silence seemed pressing him, so tiny a speck, into extinction, and yet, almost nothing, he could not be extinct. Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. "Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spinning round for terror and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core a nothingness, and yet not nothing." "

" This book was a really good read, although it did have spelled out dialect which I despise...but not too much of it - a bit risque for the time period it was written in but a very intense story line. "

" Excellent book. A little slow getting off the ground but very well worth the effort. "

" Just a story. Not hard to read, but not very interesting. "

" It was TOOOOOOO LOOOOOOOOooooonnnngggg and NOTHING really happens. "

" hard to get through all 600 pages. the sex scenes are great though. "

" i don't know about this book. parts of it were really beautifully written, especially early on but my god it dragged. glad i read it but can't exactly recommend it. "

" LOVED this story and it's characters. "

" Infuriating at times, due mainly to the suffocating influence a mother has on her sons life. A freudian study if ever I saw one. "

" I need to re-read this book. Every once in a while I think about it but can only remember a patch or an image, so I should re-read it to see why I keep thinking about it. "

" obviously a classic. a long read, but worth it. "

" Great story about a young man's friendship with his mother, growing up in rural England in the early 20th century. "

" Very, very long. Loved the writing. Disliked the plot. "

" Getting through the classics is tough sometimes! Parts of this book were amazing but the rest was a complete snoozefest. "

" I stopped reading this book about 30 pages before its end. I think I'll give it another try some day... "

" Wow ! Not a quick read for me - oddly deep and troubling at times , but well worth trudging through . "

" Complex and intricate. The end was unexpected. "

" first 2/3rds a great, vast book about relationships-fathers, mothers, children. last 1/3rd reads more like an existentialist novel-plus his line on sex, the life force, etc. great stuff, all round "

" A short novel of growing up, and the conflicts that face us all, at once dated and enduring. "

" A decent, though surprisingly soulless, tragedy. "

" Quite readable and well written. A formidable writer, but somehow a bit empty still. "

" my first of many lawrence reads... "

" I've never seen someone get so worked up for kissing in my life. "

" Another Lawrence tour-de-force. Exquisite portrayal of coming of age and intergenerational struggles for liberation and self-realization. Masterful! "

" I learned not to take critics words for what is good. I did not like the book, I thought it confusing and gloomy. It jumped all over the place and half the time it was hard to tell who he was talking about. I kept hoping it would get better but it didn't. "

" D.H. Lawrence captures relationships without the smarmy emotions oozing on the page, but this book is boring and his others, especially "Lady Chatterly's Lover," get the point much more elegantly. "

" This is only the second D H Lawrence novel I have read. I thought it wasvery good. I did begin to think that Paul was a bit of a mummy's boy and that anoid me! "

" In this book, love is a prison and loving you is a reason to hate someone. It paints a very dark picture of life. "

" Beautiful D.H.Lawrence, close your eyes to his language & perception of e-m-o-t-i-o-n. Can't help but to think though that he's using his characters as tools for his polemic. And why do his characters have so much goddamn trembling feeling? "

" Read in univeristy English - was very impressed!! "

" Not as scandalous as they claimed it to be. Pretty tame actually. "

" I read some of this, maybe all of it, many years ago and remember very little. I think I thought there might be some sex in it. Date read is a guess. "

" This is why you should not over-honor your mother - she never dies and you never live. "

" A wonderful novel of a boy who loves his mother a little too much. At first, when Lawrence is laying down the background, the story is a bit shaky and seems to move rather quickly. But once he settles down and slows a bit, the novel really shines. "

" Not a huge fan. It's basically the story of an egoist character partially based upon on the young life of the egoist author. He had to of used the term "he hated her" about 100+ times. "

" See the flowers. Smell the flowers. Take them! Mother! Mother! "

" I can see why it was controversial at the time but overall I wasn't impressed. "

" Fairly interesting, although I admit a tad dry at times. "

" This book is fantastic. It takes Lawrence awhile to say what he wants to say but I found it to be worth the wait. Clara was a bore but I adored Miriam. Lawrence's obsession on love and hate existing as one is quite interesting. "

" BRILLIANT. Captures relationships between men and women and mothers and sons so well. Influence of the countryside and nature on the characters is beautiful. "

" This was a set book when I was at school. It was OK but I don't want to read it again. "

" This book was okay. The characters weren't memorable. The only bit of interesting language was the way he captured the dialect. Generally boring. "