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That's it for Virginia Woolf

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MsAmerica · 20/01/2025 00:15

I've now read To the Lighthouse and hated it, and just finished Mrs. Dalloway which was almost as awful for me. I figure I can stop now.

I can appreciate an occasional clever description. I can appreciate an occasional elegant sentence. I can appreciate her conveying the ephemeral flitting of people's thoughts. But I can't find anything interesting or entertaining in there.

Apologies to her fans here.

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garlictwist · 20/01/2025 04:42

Oh God. I gave up on Mrs Dalloway. Not for me.

PerspicaciaTick · 20/01/2025 04:19

I love Orlando. If the book doesn't appeal try the film with Tilda Swinton.
I also love A Room of Ones Own.
But agree with you about To the lighthouse.

Tlikestotalk · 20/01/2025 04:19

A Room of One's Own is probably her most poignant read, it's half fiction half biographical and considered a feminist classic, it's probably one of my favourite books. But I did read Orlando afterwards and it went completely over my head.