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Feb 12, 2019
RJ - Slayer of Trolls
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"...for, she admitted, she knew nothing about them, only jumped to conclusions, as one does, for what can one know even of the people one lives with every day...?"
It's a book that is quite enough to make one afraid of Virginia Woolf; that is, if one isn't already afraid of her, what with her reputation for, as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham says in a cover blurb, "some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences even written in English..." which is cert ...more
It's a book that is quite enough to make one afraid of Virginia Woolf; that is, if one isn't already afraid of her, what with her reputation for, as Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham says in a cover blurb, "some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences even written in English..." which is cert ...more
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I'm very happy finally to have read Mrs. Dalloway. I've resisted it for a long time because I was intimidated by the stream-of-consciousness style of Virginia Woolf's writing style, but listening to the audiobook, I was able to avoid getting too mired in the writing or getting distracted by the lack of dialogue.
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I will say this first: I liked To the Lighthouse much better. Also, I made the mistake of reading the jacket first so I had an idea of the plot, which is always a mistake with Woolf, because it's really more about the experience and the flow of the writing than what is actually happening.
I still haven't quite made up my mind about Woolf's writing. I like many things about it, but I think I need to read more of her works. ...more
I still haven't quite made up my mind about Woolf's writing. I like many things about it, but I think I need to read more of her works. ...more
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