Ah, the excitement of beginning a new book. It’s like a journey to a different place, one you’ve never been to before. You have ideas about it, you’ve heard stories from others who’ve been there before, or in this case read it before, but you have never experienced it yourself and you are so anxious to get started. I love that feeling and I love finding a new find in the characters we read about. With that said, read on Lonely Minds…read on!
I loved the opening paragraph in Lady Chatterley’s Lover: “Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habits, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
As effective and true today as it, apparently, was in the 1920′s. I hope everyone is enjoying this journey with Lady Chatterley and her lover. I’m looking forward to seeing your posts.
Next meeting is April 7, 2010. Next book is the Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingslover. Happy reading…Daria
March 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm |
reading directions on a can of paint is more intersting than this book, it’s pretty tedious and realtively boring from my perspective…just can’t get into it. *sigh*
March 29, 2010 at 2:59 am |
I’m really sorry to hear it isn’t going better for you. I have to say you are not the only one in the group struggling with this book. On the flip side there are several in the group who are really enjoying it. All I can say is either hang with it or skip it and read another selection. Just read on Steve! Read on! : 0 )
Daria
March 29, 2010 at 3:27 pm |
To those who find the reading tough going – I also had a hard time at the beginning. Lawrence seems to be trying to say a lot about class and to get us into the mindset of the upper classes. I really enjoyed the book but I will be honest. I let my mind skim through some of those long passages because it simply didn’t interest me. I am glad you are all trying this book because it is different than much of what we have read before. Because it is from a different time, it is written in a different way. Much windier I think we would all agree. Having read a lot of older books, I feel that in the end, I am glad I did. And not to say that all older books are like this one. But I think of it much like reading foreign literature; we begin to see, understand, “get it”, the way a different culture or different era thought or expressed themselves.
I liked that Daria let someone know that no one is required to read anything they don’t want to read. So if you really just don’t enjoy this book, feel free to pass. However, I stuck it out and I found it enjoyable. Happy reading each and all! Can’t wait to see you at (presumably) Kata’s.
March 29, 2010 at 4:23 pm |
I read more of Lady Chatterley and found exactly what Kelly is describing…lengthy details. Even so, it seems to be relative easy reading. I did find myself looking up a word or two on almost every page, but even so it is moving right along. I’m now on page 54. : 0 )
I think Kelly provides good advice when she suggests we skim through the sections of the book that are dwelt upon far too long.
Daria