D.H. Lawrence's Short Stories Thread

[Dark Muse]

Dark Muse, what are you saying? Wake-up, DM, :eek: This is the "Lawrence Short Story" thread! You must be overworked in school.

Sorry I guess I just misunderstood Antiquarian sense we were talking about how I read Portriat in my class, I was saying that we read Sons and Lovers from Lawerence in my class

[Janine]

I like Portrait. We had it as a book forum read one month and you can read my thoughts on it here: http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=17101.

But I think Sons and Lovers is the greater work.

I think we're in between stories right now. Waiting on janine to select the next one.

Virgil, How did you beat me out when I was revising my post to clear that up for A? haha

Antiquarian, be sure and see my post to set you right on all this confusion.

That is ok, DM; I can see how you did that and like I said you are overworked right now. It is just that I did not want A to run away from this thread. You know how I love recruiting new people.

[Janine]

Thanks, everyone. I need to wake up, too. I know this is the Lawrence Short Story thread and I know Sons and Lovers is a novel. I'll put it down to the rain. LOL

Don't worry about it. We are all a little bit asleep in this thread right now. I am afraid they are all waiting for me to pick the next short story.*sigh sigh*.... I am working on it....honestly I am. I read several the other day, but now I think I might consider some of the ones I read, about a month ago. They are shorter and less complicated. I will PM you, Virgil, to discuss some of the possibilites. I want to see, if you have read any of those. You were so helpful, when I was trying to decide on 'The Blind Man'. Oh, I forgot to mention that story to you, Antiquarian, - that was the one we did just prior to his one; it is a great story, if you have a chance to read it. We all liked it very much. We also loved 'Sun' and 'The Man Who Loved Islands'.

[Janine]

Thanks, Janine. I'll look them up.

It would be nice to sit outside and read them this time of year...well, as long as it is not raining. Enjoy your reading, Antiquarian.

[Virgil]

Virgil, How did you beat me out when I was revising my post to clear that up for A? haha

Janine, I'm really really sneaky.

Thanks, Janine. I'll look them up.

Anti, on page 85 of this thread between Janine and I we listed the stories that we covered in this thread so far. Plus now "Two Blue Birds." If you wish to read and discuss any of the past stories, I'm open to it. I'm sure if you look through the over 100 pages of this thread you can find our discussion for the story.

[Quark]

We also loved 'Sun' and 'The Man Who Loved Islands'.

I think I missed out on the "Sun" discussion. How did that go? Who was here then?

[Janine]

Janine, I'm really really sneaky.

Don't I know it!


Anti, on page 85 of this thread between Janine and I we listed the stories that we covered in this thread so far. Plus now "Two Blue Birds." If you wish to read and discuss any of the past stories, I'm open to it. I'm sure if you look through the over 100 pages of this thread you can find our discussion for the story.

Gee wiz....don't overwhelm poor Antiquarian, or anything, Virgil .....100 pages and how many posts, is that now??? yikes!

Quark, did you read 'Sun' by any chance? That was a good story. I think it was a few back. Maybe you weren't here then...lady bathing naked on island beach...does this ring a bell?

I have been meaning to ask you this Quark? Did you say once that you read "The White Peacock" - I read that novel recently; it is rare to find the book and I just wondered how you came across it, and what you thought L's very first published novel? I may have you confused with someone else; let me know.

[Janine]

One hundred pages????? That will take me some time! But thank you for being open to a discussion.

Antiquarian, you had better stick to the current story or even wait until I announce the next one. A little bit unrealistic, I know, reviewing 100 pages of posts. Haven't we been busy in here??? I think it was our 1000th post when Quark announced it to everyone in 4 inch letters. At first I was trying to figure out what he meant, duh ....then I realised the 1000th post had flew right by me. I told you this was a very active dedicated group, or I thought I did. We all considered that a pretty good achievement in close to one year's time.

Don't worry, I won't make it a difficult story for our next one, since we all seem rather busy this month, spring and gardening, etc. and someone is going to be a grandmother is maybe 3 short weeks. I have a few ideas and will read some more of the stories Sunday night. I may review one I read tonight that is a good possibiliy.

It is always so good to see my faces in here so welcome again, Antiquarian. You will enjoy this thread very much.

So everyone, just wait patiently and soon the new story will be announced.

[Dark Muse]

I cannot wait to see what it is

[Janine]

I am quoting myself here from an earlier post:

Yes, trying to chose one; so many stories so little time....*sigh, sigh*...hummm.... I know, now that there are more anticipative and anxious people here, I feel that I am being squeezed by pressure 'to pick a good one'. Well, I think they all are good, but I keep trying to pick one that will please all of you. The thing is I don't think I can quess, just how you each will respond, to any of the stories. Therefore, this is a nearly impossible task for my feeble mind. I will eventually, just pick one and you can all decide if you like it or not; if you hate it, you all can beat me up!

haha I thought you all might beat me up on this last one, especially you, DM! BUT, guess how many posts we accomplished on this little story? I count 11 pages, since I posted the introduction on the 31 of last month - see my post #1296. That post introduction might also be good for you to read, Antiquarian, should you read the story 'Two Blue Birds'.

Remember, DM, how we discussed that the blue bird was not a true bluebird but a twit. I realised that Lawrence's title kind of indicates that by the two words 'Blue' and 'Bird' being separated. I thought that was interesting enough to add as a final comment.

Also, I really liked the story, but then I like them all. It was somewhat of a departure from Lawrence's other stories so I found it quite interesting.

[Pensive]

Are we going to read 'Two Blue Birds'? Sounds interesting to me...

[Virgil]

One hundred pages????? That will take me some time! But thank you for being open to a discussion.

Well I didn't mean for you to read the whol hundred pages of this thread. I meant if you liked a story that we've already covered, you could read the discussion on that one story. Each story probably has less than eight pages of this thread.

[Virgil]

I know, Virgil. I'm just teasing you a bit. Actually, all the stories sound interesting.

Try "The Horse Dealer's Daughter." That's my favorite.

[Janine]

Hi Everybody! It is me, late posting as usual....you know...I needed my beauty sleep... I stayed up reading/reviewing Lawrence stories.

Try "The Horse Dealer's Daughter." That's my favorite.

It is funny, Virgil, that one is your favorite and I think that one is my least favorite now, looking back over the list. Crazy, huh? We usually agree....well, not on the novels either... really...your fav is "The Rainbow" and mine is still "Women in Love"...and I am still listening to the audio MP3 file and loving it; I stopped temporarily and the player does mark the spot, but the little player once again ran out of power, so I need to charge it. Anyway, I got hung up on other things. Of course, I did read WIL three times by now!

One story - the first we posted is "Things" and I recall that we did not have our momentum then and we hardly discussed it. This actually is one of my favoritie Lawrence stories. Antiquarian, if you have the chance today, read that one, too. It is not that long. Do you have a book of L's short stories,A?


Antiquarian, thanks for listing all the stories discussed; in a minute I am going over my list and see if any are missed. I think there are maybe one or two more. We should post the this list from time to time, as a sort of 'announcement' that these are the ones in this thread, that have been discussed....for the benefit of newcomers to the thread. That way if they care to read them, they know the commentary is here, for their use.



Sorry, Pensive, we just read and discussed "Two Blue Birds". In fact, Virgil, I counted and we filled up 11 pages on this one!
Amazing, isnt' it?

I will be back in a minute. I am checking my book.....

[Janine]

Antiquarian, you win the prize! You did list them all, great! Your list threw me off, because they were in a different order than we discussed them, but I believe they are all there. Good job and this is very helpful to us all. So we are up to 11 discussed. That is pretty decent, I think. We all made a great effort in this thread. Thanks everyone!

I just checked the book and I see I have now read about 6 others, but I am still undecided. I will make a choice tonight and post it tomorrow. I know you all want to keep moving along, and so do I.

Quote by Antiquarian

Looking forward to whatever story you choose, Janine.

Antiquarian, thanks for your vote of confidence. I always worry I will pick a story everyone will hate, but so far that has never happened...thank heaven.

I have to go out today and do more errands...hummm....I wonder if I could strap the book to my steering wheel; I guess if cell phones are illegal, 'reading' would definitely be, too. *sigh*eeeekkkk*....what a dumb notion...one can only 'multitask' to an extent. I wish I had the stories on audio CD's; then I could listen in the car. I could read them into my MP3 player but that would hardly save me anytime.

Oh, a thought just came to me, maybe I can fit in a trip to Barnes and Noble today! Yeah...