If the Netflix trailer for the film had not piqued my interest so greatly, would I have ever read this book? Probably not. Am I glad that I read this book? Yes, I think so. Banned books have always intrigued me simply because at a point in time they were labeled either too vulgar or too revolutionary to be read by the general public, and so the persons in power, who didn’t want the masses to read such perverted literature or get radical ideas, decided that they must be banned. As I was reading the afterword, I learned that this book is still banned in China, and by that I am going to guess that it is still banned in a few other countries as well. I can see why, at the time, this book was banned in both the United Stated and the United Kingdom. It would have upset the ideal of the nuclear family and traditional male and female roles.
I usually don’t enjoy the classics, but if more of the classics were written like this then I would. I enjoyed reading in the language of the time, even if it is hard to believe that people at the time actually spoke like that, and it was made even more enjoyable by the filthy and sometimes crude language of the gamekeeper, Mr. Mellors, as he speaks intimately to his lover, Lady Constance Chatterly. Although I have not seen the film yet, I expect that they will modernize the dialogue to make it easier for the audience to understand as well as make it more enjoyable for todays ears. I do hope that they keep some of the more raunchy lines, because they really do make the story. If you want to get into the classics, I would highly recommend this as a starting point. It’s somewhere between Pride and Prejudice and a Bertice Small historical romance, a blend of which I really enjoyed.
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