Everyone wants to know who Jacob is, and everyone has an opinion on him.There’s little plot in Jacob’s Room, it's more of a character study, The story is like following Jacob around a series of impressions of this or that observer (his mother, his lovers and his friends), the place being this or th...
Listened to an audio of this book on my mini tablet while at work. I am still unable to get into Woolf's books. I continue to read them because most of them are on the 1001 list. If it wasn't for that I would not read any more of them.
After I gave up trying to cling to a plot or any deep character development, I enjoyably snuggled into Woolf's prose, meandering from description to description until the close of the book. The dialogue in the book never quite did it for me, and I found myself annoyed by it, wanting to get back to t...
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