To The Lighthouse

I am too dumb to get Virginia Woolf. I found this to be so painful to read (I promised my boyfriend at the time that I would read it). And still, to this day, I can't remember anything about it.

Woolf's style is, to my mind, reminiscent of Elliott's: the convoluted, "if so and but wherefore" variety with single sentences so constructed often reaching a paragraph (or more) in length. Initially, I found this highly irritating. However, as a transsexual woman of advancing years (!) what I found fascinating was the content and that her heroines'...more

Woolf's style is, to my mind, reminiscent of Elliott's: the convoluted, "if so and but wherefore" variety with single sentences so constructed often reaching a paragraph (or more) in length. Initially, I found this highly irritating. However, as a transsexual woman of advancing years (!) what I found fascinating was the content and that her heroines' experiences closely resembled and validated mine...   hide

The first time I read this novel, admittedly I didn't like it much. Having had very little experience with Virginia Woolf, I had been expecting some plot to evolve, some action to carry the novel through. However 10 years later, upon reading it for the second time, I finally appreciate Woolf's artistic use of language and deep psychological character portraits. If a picture speaks a...more

The first time I read this novel, admittedly I didn't like it much. Having had very little experience with Virginia Woolf, I had been expecting some plot to evolve, some action to carry the novel through. However 10 years later, upon reading it for the second time, I finally appreciate Woolf's artistic use of language and deep psychological character portraits. If a picture speaks a thousand words, then here they are, equally as colourful and stunning as any paint on canvas.   hide

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