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This didn't work for me. I'm just not literary-ish enough to appreciate it, I guess. I found it boring and I couldn't wait for it to be over. The writing was good, as advertised, but I found it hard to follow at times and I was often confused over who was being talked about.
I did like The Hours, a lot, and I guess I was expecting this novel to be somewhat similar. I found the stream of consciousness narration to be interesting and enjoyed the jaunts around London having visited many of the sett ...more
I did like The Hours, a lot, and I guess I was expecting this novel to be somewhat similar. I found the stream of consciousness narration to be interesting and enjoyed the jaunts around London having visited many of the sett ...more
An exquisite masterpiece! This book needs to be read slowly, like sipping wine.
During the course of a single day in June in the mid 1920s, Virginia Woolf makes wonderful verbal panorama shots of the streets of London. And then zooms in to give us a closeup of this character and then that character, taking us right into their heads and showing us what they are thinking. Each, in his own words, is trying to make sense of life and this world. It is so beautiful. Upon rereading passages, more and mo ...more
During the course of a single day in June in the mid 1920s, Virginia Woolf makes wonderful verbal panorama shots of the streets of London. And then zooms in to give us a closeup of this character and then that character, taking us right into their heads and showing us what they are thinking. Each, in his own words, is trying to make sense of life and this world. It is so beautiful. Upon rereading passages, more and mo ...more
Not a fan it just made me feel the anxiety of the characters building so strongly it felt unpleasant to read .
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