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A review by silentlysings
The Waves by Virginia Woolf
2.0
This book taught me that, while I enjoy quotes by certain authors, it doesn’t mean I will enjoy reading an entire book from them.
While the prose was gorgeous at times (I definitely savoured some bits of the imagery), overall it felt tedious, repetitive and almost pretentious to me. If this wasn’t written by the widely-acclaimed Virginia Woolf, I wonder if the reviews would be different.
I couldn't really relate to the characters (which feels important in a character driven book, to me), save for Rhoda I guess. Poor thing.
tl;dr maybe it’s just a case of “it’s not you, it’s me”
While the prose was gorgeous at times (I definitely savoured some bits of the imagery), overall it felt tedious, repetitive and almost pretentious to me. If this wasn’t written by the widely-acclaimed Virginia Woolf, I wonder if the reviews would be different.
I couldn't really relate to the characters (which feels important in a character driven book, to me), save for Rhoda I guess. Poor thing.
tl;dr maybe it’s just a case of “it’s not you, it’s me”