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Dazzling gender bender! One of the best books I've read in a long time. It's an amazing look at gender idenity issues...magical realism...and humor. It doesn't get much better.
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I've never read a Virginia Woolf book before. I loved her writing, though the story was a little strange in places and I was faintly dissatisfied with the ending. A great story, though, which made me ask a lot of questions. I didn't feel sorry to finish it, but I did wish that there'd been more of a solid conclusion to Orlando's story.
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The best advice I got about Woolf is to read her prose like poetry. Slow down. Read it aloud if you have to. When i found myself at various frustrating places in the novel I force marched myself back a couple pages and started reading aloud to myself. Although it is most “normal”narrative of her books she is experimenting with the biographical form.
May 29, 2007
Jessica Haider
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Dec 23, 2007
Clare
marked it as to-read
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Jan 08, 2015
Felicia
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