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Title: A Gutless, Dull and Pretentious Novel
Review: D.H Lawrence has obviously, with this book, created some kind of magical formula: rambling, wittering prose with no real direction can suddenly be accepted as an important novel. Why is this book taught in schools? It's style favours that of the long-winded, ill-thought-out mood-building, yet where Lawrence fails is in his descriptions of the characters within the book. They actually have very little depth. It has been said that this book is autobiographical. This suggests to me that Lawrence knows his characters so well, he expects the reader to simply know the characters, beyond the description of them as "happy" or "sad".It occurs to me that Lawrence simply spewed his thoughts out on to the page when writing this book, and what dull thoughts they were.
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