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Title: Not a masterpiece
Review: I have read others of Lawrence's books and thoroughly enjoyed them, but this one bored me to tears. It was not only repetitive, but unnecessarily florid, slow, and melodramatic. Here is a sample:"Gradually she realised that her life, her freedom, was sinking under the silent grip of his physical will. He wanted her in his power. He wanted to devour her at leisure, to have her. At length she realised that her sleep was a long ache and a weariness and exhaustion, because of his will fastened upon her, as he lay there beside her, during the night. She realised it all, and there came a momentous pause, a pause in her swift running, a moment's suspension in her life, when she was lost."And it goes on and on and on like this, unto the third generation. No doubt all this purple prose was extremely erotic in its day, but none of these characters seem at all real to me, and there is no plot to make up for the lack. For me, this was one big waste of time.
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