Liked It
4 of 4 members found this review helpful.
“When Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself, she set in motion a strange and perturbing day, and a stunning novel.
"...in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment of June," says the author of her protagonist early on, and it sets the tone for a novel that consistently and brilliantly grapples with the intangible nothings of which lives are constructed. Woolf called her novel The...”
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Didn’t Like It
“I really wanted to like this book. I have a hard time with Woolfs writing, I kept reading the same line over and over, then going back to re-read and discovering it was not me reading it over and over, just Woolf repeating herself, if she would have taken out the repeating lines the book would have been half the length. It is also hard to figure out who head you are in, you think Clarissa is talking but then she is thinking about the Far East, and after a paragraph or so you realize that it...”
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