Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Book Summary Author: Virginia Woolf Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1990-09-24 ISBN: 0156628708 Number of pages: 216 Publisher: Mariner Books Product features:
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Book Reviews of the Mrs. Dalloway
Customer Review: As bad as Faulkner
Summary: 1 Stars
I had been warned about Woolf, but I just can't accept the fact that I don't appreciate her writing and keep coming back for more. I may not be giving it a fair review since I only made it to page 65 before throwing in the towel, but after pages and pages of surreal metaphors that go on for 10 paragraphs and nonsensical semi-flashbacks, I just couldn't follow it any more. I kept losing track of which character was musing about nothing. The book just does not make any sense. After 65 pages I still could not discern the point of anything I'd read. I suppose Woolf is considered a genius since she was apparently a cavalier writer of her generation, but I'm grateful that contemporary writers can at least string together 2 sentences that follow one another in a logical sequence.
I tried, I really did; My suggestion: just watch The Hours - you'll get all the beauty and none of the confusion.