Have I read this before: No.

Review: Can a novel include a normal, healthy relationship or is that too boring? Of course, this is the guy who wrote Lady Chatterley’s Lover, so. Paul’s relationship with his mother is the most co-dependent relationship I’ve read about in a long time. I should shut up because I’m super close to my mom too, but not in the oddly terrifying way he is. It’s a pretty sad book if you think about it.

Favorite Part: Pauls’ thoughts on his lover Clara:

“’What is she, after all?’ he said to himself. ‘Here’s the seacoast morning, big and permanent and beautiful; there is she, fretting, always unsatisfied, and temporary as a bubble of foam. What does she mean to me, after all? She represents something, like a bubble of foam represents the sea. But what is she? It’s not her I care for.’”

Rating: 5/10