Read as an audiobook while birdwatching in Thailand.Well-constructed and well-crafted, this is a highly engaging and poignant novel in three interwoven strands. These three stories of depression and suicidality are related by Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway--the writing of it, the reading of it, and ...
I read this before the film came out, on the recommendation of a bookstore owner who adored it. I liked it enough -- enough to finish it -- but most of the story doesn't stick with me. The film did a lovely job, I thought, one of the few times a book translated that well. I much prefer Mrs. Dallo...
i had mixed expectations for this - it was so highly recommended and reviewed that i both thought i'd love it and not love it (in the vein of the fountainhead, assuming that if everyone loves it, it must be much worse than mediocre) and then it won the pulitzer, which doesn't bode well for my liking...
I thought this book would blow me away, but I didn't love it that much. It's beautifully written, and it's about the lives of women, so why didn't I love it? I haven't read much of Mrs. Dalloway, and through The Hours I felt I was missing out on something I was supposed to know ahead of time. Perhap...
OK, I just knew I was going to have to eat my words...Last week, I was whining about Mrs. Dalloway. The meandering narrative had me absolutely convinced that I was ADHD. Well this past week, I decided to listen to Michael Cunningham's Pulitzer Prize winning novel, The Hours. The novel is about a sin...
I enjoyed the book more than the movie and I liked the movie very much. However, I feel as though the author and I were at odds, that his key character was Richard, around whom the female characters existed to weave an explanation. At any rate, I admire writers who can give so much life and engageme...
Really enjoyed this book. I had seen the movie when it came out, but it definitely wasn't as good as the book. I'm not a big fan of virginia woolf's writing, but still found the story of her life interesting. My favorite character was the post-war mother, although with a 5-year-old son myself, I can...
I am not really a fan of Mrs. Dalloway. I can understand its value as literature -- that Virginia Woolf showed that even the mundane events in a person's life are worthy of being turned into literature -- but I've never been able to get into it. I saw the movie The Hours several years ago, before I ...
I read this as an unabridged audiobook and if I had one word to sum it up it would have to be "depressing". Even the author/narrator sounded depressed as he read the story in a monotonous tone. I have gone to Amazon and read the reviews but can't say that I agree with most of them. I found this stor...
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