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The story (such as it is) was a little dull in itself, but the style is incredible. With no chapters and few section breaks, this is like the written version of a long take/tracking shot (like at the beginning of "The Player"). I kept having to go back and figure out how I got from one character's viewpoint to another's. Now I think I need to read "The Hours".
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In some ways, it's good to come into a classic with no more thought than it's worth a whirl simply because of its status in the canon. Otherwise, I probably would have passed this over - stream-of-consciousness is a tough style for me to love, but for whatever reason I'd never previously connected it with Woolf even though that's plainly what she's done here. And yet, it won me over. Despite the about-nothing, focused on a woman who's remarkable only in her very blandness, it's an achievement to
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My experience with each Virginia Woolf book I've read has been similar. The first 100 or so pages are rather slow going as I struggle to fall into rhythm with her style of narration. Then slowly but surely I become absorbed by her distinctive prose and the inner worlds of characters that she makes her readers become intimately knowledegable of.
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