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The Hours

Michael Cunningham

Start date: November 15, 2014

Finish date: January 15, 2015

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What Members Thought

Mar 04, 2008 Chloe rated it it was amazing

Shelves: fiction, queerest-of-the-queer, 1001-list, white_whine, pulitzer

Wow, I can't believe I let this book linger on my shelf for so long. Far better than I was thinking it was going to be. I haven't devoured a book this quickly in ages. Definitely not uplifting, Cunningham intermingles the stories of three women in different eras as they deal with looming insanity, ennui, and aging with prose that is both florid and simple. I love Michael Cunningham and feel the need to go find every other book he's written. ...more

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Jun 09, 2008 Kecia rated it liked it

Shelves: england, 1001-books, pulitzer_prize, pen_faulkner, nbcca_finalist, usa

I'm really glad that I read Mrs. Dalloway alongside The Hours. Nothing...nothing...nothing...can touch Woolf's amazing gift for story telling, but Cunningham's story mirrors it so well that there were times I had to smile while reading. I'm only giving it 3 stars because reading it literally on the heals of Mrs. Dalloway, The Hours was more like a wet noodle than great lit. Perhaps I should have read them in reverse. I'm looking forward to reading Doris Lessing's To Room 19 now. Perhaps that wil ...more

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Feb 06, 2010 sahar B rated it really liked it

i saw a movie and i loved it

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Feb 11, 2007 Francisco rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: novela, estadounidenses

Magnífico retrato de mujeres, en torno a Mrs. Dalloway de Virginia Woolf. Muy tierna, bien llevada... aunque hay un alegato al suicidio como solución que no me termina de convencer.

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