Over the past week I have been trying to read this book but I had to give up. I just can't make myself read any further.
The narrative, to me, comes across as if written by an amateur. However, that is not my main frustration with this novel. The dialogues between the several characters all read the same. As in the conversations between the sisters Gudrun and Ursula "sound" the same as those between Gerald Crich and Rupert Birkin, which annoyed me as I expected the characters to be sufficiently different and that those difference would echo through their way of speaking, but alas. The only two female characters who struck me as feminine were Hermione and The Pussum, my issue with their dialogues is that they become overly girly and stupid. Thus making them the stereotypes for stupid, uneducated women of the early 20th century.
Has anyone else here read this book and possibly enjoyed it?
The narrative, to me, comes across as if written by an amateur. However, that is not my main frustration with this novel. The dialogues between the several characters all read the same. As in the conversations between the sisters Gudrun and Ursula "sound" the same as those between Gerald Crich and Rupert Birkin, which annoyed me as I expected the characters to be sufficiently different and that those difference would echo through their way of speaking, but alas. The only two female characters who struck me as feminine were Hermione and The Pussum, my issue with their dialogues is that they become overly girly and stupid. Thus making them the stereotypes for stupid, uneducated women of the early 20th century.
Has anyone else here read this book and possibly enjoyed it?
