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A solid 3 ½ stars. I gave it four because it doesn't deserve three and Woolf's prose, as always, is lovely.
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Well, Hmm. I don't know. I didn't love it. Shall we call it experimental? I'm a simple person, or simple taste, and "experimental" novels rarely appeal to me. I really like the concept here, which is why I choose to seek it out. The titular character, Orlando, starts the novel as a boy, and he lives in perpetuity (the book starts in the 1500's, and ends in 1928). But the real interesting part is about halfway through, Orlando falls into a deep sleep (his second), and awakes as a woman. Orlando n
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It's amazing. Virginia Woolf knows my private ideas on how the mind works, the multiple Selfs, the switches while she notices the switches in-between Orlandos' Selfs, while Orlando is run in her mind. I tried to avoid terms from computer science, because human mind's nothing like a currently existing computers. Worth reading, and re-reading. Five stars without any doubt.
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