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    <body><![CDATA[I've read this book several times.  The first attempt my mind drifted off half the time because there is no plot (which is perfectly fine).  I wandered so much that I had to reread the final chapter but by the time I got to the last two pages I burst into tears.  It vouches for the power of a book w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1662477">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[So I'd started this book lots of times, but I guess I never quite made it through it. Perhaps because my big Virginia Woolf phase happened when I was about 13, and I was somehow not quite ready for The Waves at that point in my life. But a full reading makes me want a rereading, and another, and ano...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2461501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>'The Waves' expresses the cadence of life in synchrony with the rotation of the environment and the course of instance. The novel follows six children as they progress from childhood to adulthood,chasing disimilar infatuations and aspirations. In sync with this theme,,Woolf includes intermissions of...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29199918">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I knew Woolf had written some experimental stuff and this book was amazing. It's all narrative, but inside quotes and voiced by the characters. Very dreamy and elegant diction, surreal in that it's young kids making grand pronouncements that they couldn't possibly be capable of thinking. It's nice t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5858633">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This feels as if Woolf were weighing the standards by which people live:  The archetype for the socialite, the academic, the rustic, the consummate businessman, the dreamer, and the everyman...She holds up what each one identifies as worthwhile in life against the convictions of his/her friends, who...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1151244">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ What to say? i'm in awe.  striking structure, a literary marvel. it punctures the self and its attempts at narrative cohesion, with mystic sensibilities and rhythm.   Commentators far more learned than myself have addressed the undulating soliloquies that form this rarefied piece, and they've done ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39078185">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Boy was this a different and most of the time difficult book.  I LOVED the writing about the sun rise and set between the chapters, just beautiful but I gave up sitting with a dictionary by my side and decided that if I didn't understand a word or sentence to let it go and things often worked out, o...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43844725">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[” Şükürler olsun yalnızlığa. Yapayalnız olayım. Şu varlık örtüsünü düşüreyim, fırlatıp atayım, küçücük bir solukta gece gündüz değişen bulutu, bütün gece boyunca, bütün gün boyunca.<br/><br/>Burda otururken değişiyordum. Gökyüzünün değişmesini izledim. Bu...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51907663">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Waves is a beautifully written book. I want to revisit moments in it, to read passages to myself, and marvel in them. As a whole, though, it’s hard to grasp. It floats along, giving the reader few concrete descriptions, few hints of what the characters are physically experiencing. Instead, Woo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77150664">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this book after thoroughly enjoying To the Lighthouse, but I didn't realize how much further out there this is. It definitely took me a while to find my groove reading, but I'm glad I stuck with it. The language is blow-you-away gorgeous, and Woolf has the same uncanny knack for finding voice...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45705270">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Once more I was awestruck by Virginia Woof's mind.  This novel is like no other I have ever read.  She moved me through the lives of these characters like I was floating, which I would assume was the intention.  As always, I was sometimes frustrated by how lost I would get in her sentence structure ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2042817">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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