Lady Chatterley's Lover

I just started reading this on line at work. I had tried Sons and Lovers years ago and hated it, probably didn't have the maturity for it at the time. So I had assumed I didn't likeD.H. Lawrence. But Lady Chatterleys lover is a really hot book, with views on women and sex that seem very progressive for that time, and maybe even today. I just started in yesterday, and I am working on several other books too. But Wow, what a surprise.

I read "Lady Chatterly's Lover," many years ago for the first time, and I remember being swept away with Lawrence's understanding of the female mind; on a second reading a couple of months back, I found myself annoyed. Why? I think it was because beneath the "feminist" stance Constance's free spirit supposedly represents, I felt that Lawrence was actually spouting a more typical male attitude, that of a woman who will throw everything away for a good romp in the hay. I actually did like "Sons and Lovers" a lot more. That's just my opinion.

I very recently read Lady Chatterley's Lover - it was my first experience of D H Lawrence and one I'd like to repeat - I'll definitely be trying more of his work. I actually thought he writes women very sympathetically and even the use of various four-letter words seemed quite tender and not at all out of place.

I found it rather "un-hot", actually. LOL To me it seemed to be about the more mundane issues of class and wealth at least as much as just sex. Ho hum. I, too, found Constance to be pretty annoying and thought her lover somewhat of a dolt.

Pamelad,
That was kind of insulting. There are those of us who enjoy the book and it neither makes us 16, nor means we have the minds of a 16 year old.

I agree with #6. I'm nowhere near 16 and I enjoyed it for it's risque content. I was shocked that the book was written so long ago.

Sorry - didn't mean to be insulting. Read a lot of DH Lawrence when I was 16 and enjoyed it. Can't read him now.

I read DH Lawrence in college as part of a writing course titled "Concept of the Modern" -- the professor's area of expertise. We read Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Death in Venice by Thomas Mann, Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence and more. The professor was a good writer, astute, but a bad writing teacher. Oh, well. But, the introduction to this collection of works was well worth it.

So I enjoyed Lady Chatterly's Lover. I should revisit it now and see how I react.

There is an interesting aspect of this thread exposing the importance of the reader's context. In the 1950's, many libraries did not include this book due to it's "risque" nature. Fifty years later, it's almost bland.

As I read other classics from the 1001, I'm trying to "recall" the context of the writer which is hard when my history lessons were so long ago.