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A review by katie_is_dreaming
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
2.0
Virginia Woolf is a great writer. She's clever and thoughtful, and writes about important things, but I just can't engage with her style, and I come away not really caring about her characters or her story.
Her style is very difficult to get to grips with for me. Her particular stream-of-consciousness style is like random, fleeting thoughts, often, so much so that I find myself forgetting what happened two pages previously. And I'm not invested enough to go back and remind myself.
Woolf does write about important topics and themes, and she writes intelligently. I just wish I found her style more engaging. I'd like to like her work more, because it is important: I just don't.
Her style is very difficult to get to grips with for me. Her particular stream-of-consciousness style is like random, fleeting thoughts, often, so much so that I find myself forgetting what happened two pages previously. And I'm not invested enough to go back and remind myself.
Woolf does write about important topics and themes, and she writes intelligently. I just wish I found her style more engaging. I'd like to like her work more, because it is important: I just don't.