Reviews
For my first Lawrence, I didn't really know what to expect. I was afraid of the book being too chick-lit for my taste, but I wanted something "easy" for the end of the year/beginning of the new one. Easy, however, is not the way I would describe it. It is anything but. What it is, however, is amazing. Mindblowing. Deeply, purely honest. Raw. Intense. I don't remember ever reading a book so focused on the inner life of the characters, so equally knowledgeable about the psyche of both men and women, so unjudgemental. I've read that The Rainbow was quite the scandal in its time and for good reason. The characters question everything, from religion to social issues. It is, if you make abstraction of the specifics of the era, a very current story. The erotism is there, raw and intense, but so is the religious aspect, which different characters question in their own way. It has lesbianism, which I'm sure was quite an obscene topic for the beginning of the 1900s, but it is also one of the most accurate and real stories about relationships I've ever read. More accurate and more real than the so-called self-help books on relationships. I hope Women in Love rises up to the challenge, because - let me tell you - The Rainbow is quite amazing and hard to follow.
