Sons and Lovers Audiobook

" Another amazing book that changed the way I view literature. D. H. Lawrence is a flawless writer. "

" Great story and a great point of view at someone with a dependent personality disorder towards his mother and the repercusions it has on his decisions and his life. "

" The life of a young man who grows up in a coal mining district who strives to break free of the life before him. A stark visual of the conditions of coal mining communities in the early to mid 1900's, as well as a study in class, family, sexuality. "

" Unexpectedly fantastic. I may be more careful in my mother/son relationship though. "

" My favourite DH Lawrence book taught me that women were different "

" One of the most amazing books I have ever read. "

" Both of my parents worked and sometimes I would have to hang out at ZCMI and wait for my mom to get off work. She would give me $5 and I would go to the book section upstairs and they had a bunch of "Penguin Classic Books" and I would pick one out and read it in the ladies dressing room. This was one of those books. I thought I would like it when I read the synopsis, but I remember it being a pretty embarrassing read. "

" Read this in school and decided Lawrence was a moron. "

" A little slow to start. Probably to be expected for the time period. But, once I got into it I got really involved with the characters and their relationships. Although, I'm not sure if they were supposed to be sympathetic in anyway, or if it was just a more realistic approach to people's personalities. "

" finally finished DH Lawrence's "Sons & Lovers" after two months struggling to finish it. Verdict?- Sanctimonious, boring, self-serving and rambling, it definitely shows you that a "masterpiece" can be as trashy as a Harlequin romance. I know this posting will probably offend some literary aficionados out there, but I absolutely HATED this book. "

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

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

" When I read this, I thought it was racy stuff. Vroom-vroom. And I think this is the one (or is it Women in Love?) where the manly-men get nakedly-naked and wrestle on the parlor room floor. This is where the women and children head for the exits. ("Paging Dr. Freud... Dr. Freud to Mr. Lawrence's room...") "

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

" Fantastic writing - but requires lots of analysis. "

" Read it as wider reading for my A level course as i liked DH Lawrence's poetry and hated it. "

" This book made me read it voraciously. Very insightful and interesting. "

" Alternate title: "Life Was Miserable in the 19th Century" "

" Complex and intricate. The end was unexpected. "

" Incredibly insightful and beautifully written but I am discouraged with Lawrence's lack of answers. His characters react to their circumstances and emotions, lacking principles to guide their behavior. I'm afraid that Jane Eyre has spoiled me. "

" The book is a slow crescendo. Truly rhapsodic prose. Fraught with familial and sexual tension. A timeless study of human relationships. "

" Some really exquisite pastoral descriptions, and some cutting insight into relationships and why we love and hate those we love. Too long, though! Too much wading through sticky, unchanging feeling. "

" "Sons and Lovers" is perhaps the only novel by D H Lawrence really worth reading. "

" Quit about 2/3 of the way in. I might come back to it, but this one just couldn't keep my interest. D. H. Lawrence had been on my list for a long time, but I'm having a hard time seeing him as one of the greats. "

" Read it for a British Literature class. It was a rewarding read, but not something I would read on my spare time for pleasure. "

" 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. "

" I love HK Lawrence. This is a great novel, beautifully written. "

" The only characters I really liked were Mr. and Mrs. Morel. The rest seemed really weak. Not a one of them held to the courage of their convictions. I especially did not like Paul Morel. I realize that he is a composite self-portrait of Lawrence, but his character wavered so much. Honestly, this novel could have been trimmed by about 200 pages. The movement toward the death of the mother dragged on longer than the end of the last Lord of the Rings movie. That said, I was touched by the ending. Mrs. Morel's death affected the entire community, even those who one would not have expected to care. "

" This book is worth reading for its beautiful language and emotions. "

" 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. "

" I had never read this classic and had a hard time finising. Strange relationship between the mother and son. Also I had no empathy for the women in Paul's life. "

" Paul is not a very likable guy so it made the whole novel hard to read. Interesting characterizations by Lawrence though. "

" This was a good read. I became invested in the characters even if I wasn't always happy with them. "

" great book, can be tough to get through, but DH Lawrence never fails in this one. "

" I enjoyed this quite a bit in the beginning. Then it seemed to get bogged down. "

" Lawrence knows human nature so well, which makes for a truly engaging read. "

" Non all'altezza del L'amante di lady Chatterley ma bello. "

" read it if you have a LOT of patience. "

" If you are on the academic calendar and have a true Christmas break, grab your old copy and re-read in the weeks between semesters. Read it already? No, try again. The older you get, the more you see where Lawrence was calling from... "

" Assigned in my least favorite college English class; perhaps that's why I dislike it? #9 on the 100 Best English Language Novels of the 20th Century. "

" british classic, sons are unhappy in love due to mother's stifling influence, 1st half sparkled with beautiful prose and pastoral setting but then it grew rather tiresome "

" it is much like a soap opera or an early english Jersey Shore... sons are babied by mother and unable to develop meaningful relationships with women. "

" My all time favorite book, reading it again.... "

" Well written evocative portraits of several uninteresting semi-psychotic aesthetes. Also, Oedipus complex. "

" 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. "

" Unexpectedly fantastic. I may be more careful in my mother/son relationship though. "

" I had to read it for my Defining Family class, but it was definitely worth it. It's about the Oedipus Complex. Kind of disturbing, but not graphic or anything. I recommend it. "

" Really,really good read. I'd read a couple of Lawrence books before, and liked them quite a bit - but this one was the best - very fascinating characters, and the mores of the time period and how the characters behave kept me going the whole way. Paul Morel - what a creation!!!! "

" I'm so glad I read Cold Comfort Farm before this book - good to realize that even if it is a "classic" the dialect can be unintelligible. "

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

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

" He can write well, but not well enough to make me keep reading a fundamentally dull story. "

" Every boy should read this book. Helps explain our inextricable attachment to our mothers.... "

" What a long, slow, beautiful, and sad book. The language and emotional impact was second to none, but I found myself in need of a good flogging to even pick it up for a few pages. But the end has come, and was well worth the effort. "

" Good read so far...I'm 80 pages in and not bored in the slightest! "

" I don't like this book enough to finish it. "

" Goddamn this stupid fucking book. Fuck all books. "

" My favorite Lawrence novel,I find the story of Paul fascinating and the detail of Edwardian Nottinghamshire is wonderful. "

" A decent, though surprisingly soulless, tragedy. "

" 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. "

" Read this after a horrible break up and I have to say it coloured my perception of love permanently. It's not an easy read, but then that's what you have to expect from him. Language, as ever is cosmic, super vivid. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" great book, can be tough to get through, but DH Lawrence never fails in this one. "

" I remember this was my favorite book in junior year of high school. And that I developed a huge crush on Paul Morrell. "

" This book is slow - really slow. None of the characters are very likable or redeeming in any way. However, the last 100 pages make it a worthwhile read. It drags too much for me to ever teach it at the high school level. Perhaps some day... "

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

" 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 "

" I think it's his best work. Loved re-reading it. "

" 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? "

" modern update on Oedipus play. prose is quintessential Lawrence, but character and plot development was unnecessarily long. "

" I guess I should have read enough D.H. Lawrence to know that the relationships in his novels wouldn't be conventional. While I liked most of the work, I found the character Paul to be too autobiographical and overall unlikable. "

" The book cover on the version I read was much tamer. "

" I love DH Lawrence! So scandalous for his time! "

" So painful; so essentially true in feeling. "

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

" Quite an oddity among 'classics' of this age - it started off fairly prim and proper, and then once it got beyond half way if I'm not much mistaken there was sex on every other page. More or less. If DH Lawrence wrote this from personal experience I can only conclude his mother was one scary lady. "

" So. Many. Mommy issues. 4 stars for the first half, 2 for the 2nd. "

" Quit about 2/3 of the way in. I might come back to it, but this one just couldn't keep my interest. D. H. Lawrence had been on my list for a long time, but I'm having a hard time seeing him as one of the greats. "

" The book is a slow crescendo. Truly rhapsodic prose. Fraught with familial and sexual tension. A timeless study of human relationships. "