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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

Start date: September 1, 2017

Finish date: September 30, 2017

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To The Lighthouse

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Oct 18, 2009 Ben rated it it was amazing

Shelves: families, like-magic, read-in-2010, memorable-characters, transformative-experience, good-fiction, all-time-favorites, favorites, important-message, to-read-again

I don’t have much time, but I feel it’s important to tell you that having had my first experience with Virginia Woolf, I feel that she is the shit. She is not for everyone, but she speaks to me in a way no author has before. Reading this often felt like magic. For example, did you know that there is an infinite nature to conversation? There is, and you can feel it when you read this novel.

The world of reading Woolf is a world of psyches and abstraction; the bringing to the forefront of our uncon ...more

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Nov 09, 2008 ღ Carol jinx~☆~☔ʚϊɞ rated it really liked it

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I learned that i could never write like Virginia Woolf. She's amazing.
The book is about the common struggle that each of the characters faces to bring meaning to their lives.
All young James wants is to go to the lighthouse. Mr Ramsay just wants his wife to tell him she loves him and give him sympathy. Lily wants to complete a painting and Charles Tansley insists that women can't paint or write. Woolf tells this story in deep "stream of consciousness" and gives us so much it is sometimes hard to ...more

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Apr 12, 2025 Amanda rated it liked it

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Giving a Virginia Woolf book three stars, especially one as split between those who loved it and those who hated it, seems wrong somehow. Maybe I would say it's a 3.5 star book for me, at most. But unlike Mrs. Dalloway, which I loved, I simply could not get into this novel for the life of me. So much so that while I nominally read it for my work book club, I hadn't even made it halfway through by the time that rolled around and had to skip the meeting (because I was enjoying it enough that I did ...more

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Aug 12, 2009 Super Saiyan rated it it was amazing

Wonderfully complex book, with a wonderfully difficult narrative. I like how Woolf delves below the surface of artificial actions and speech, and multi-layers her narration, with thoughts that her characters cannot say, or cannot even think. Genius.

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