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Mrs. Dalloway - Community Reviews back

by Virginia Woolf, Maureen Howard
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wjmcomposer
wjmcomposer rated it 10 years ago
Review forthcoming, as there's quite a bit of information to collect, but I obviously enjoyed this a great deal.
The English Student
The English Student rated it 11 years ago
Mrs Dalloway is a kind of life-in-a-day book, in that it follows its main characters through a single day in 1920s London. I give it two stars not because it was a bad book, but more because I don't remember most of it, and thus it is quite hard to review.I liked Woolf's style: uncomplicated yet ele...
Major Leser
Major Leser rated it 11 years ago
Finally finished it and as always my love for Virginia Woolf's nearly perfect prose (motivated by something other than merely for the sake of perfection) is even more deeply entrenched.I feel that to ever really understand Mrs. Dalloway one would have to understand why the moment Clarissa becomes Mr...
Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
I was assigned this book several times in high school and college and turned to Monarch notes rather than finishing, because words can not express how tedious and boring I found this book. Hated it. Recently, I wanted to read Cunningham's "The Hours" because I was intrigued by the film. I knew that ...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 11 years ago
bookshelves: classic, winter-20102011, re-read, published-1925, midlife-crisis, britain-england, radio-4, summer-2012, london, play-dramatisation Read from January 01, 2002 to May 27, 2012, read count: 3 ** spoiler alert ** Dramatised by Michelene WandorVirginia Woolf's classic novel set on a sin...
Joanne
Joanne rated it 11 years ago
Well, I tried. I am completely unfamiliar with the story and had no idea what to expect going in. I picked this up this afternoon, and 30 tedious pages later, I have to say I don't really know what was going on during that time. I get that Mrs Dalloway seems to have some sort of past with a man name...
oh, carrots.
oh, carrots. rated it 11 years ago
Ugh. Nononono. Why do I hate this so much? I'm supposed to love it, right? So glad I only spent 99 cents.Refuse to torture myself when my to-read pile is so enormous. Therefore DNF.
Edward
Edward rated it 11 years ago
Foreword, by Jeanette WintersonIntroduction, by Carol Ann DuffyIntroduction, by Valentine Cunningham--Mrs Dalloway
Hellen
Hellen rated it 11 years ago
Will have to reread this, just couldn't focus on it. My thoughts kept wandering off and I rarely ever have that with non-study books. I did have the same with Woolf's Moments of Being, which I abandoned, another thing that I rarely do. Bad signs! Next time I'll lock myself in a quiet room and have a...
Books etc.
Books etc. rated it 11 years ago
I finally have the inkling why some people loves Virginia Woolf so much. This book deserves to be read on a holiday; not in Rome, Amsterdam, Bali, Bangkok or Paris where you feel obliged to explore, to soak up in culture & art, to be on your feet from dawn to dusk followed by wild night. It's those ...
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