Orlando: A Biography

[Anonymous No.6752467]

why can't i get into this, lit? i normally love Woolf, have read about 7 of her novels and essays and all that. i intend to (one day) read and acquire all of her works.
i just want to know the general approach i should take upon reading this, and maybe if any fellow Woolf lover had this same experience.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.6753675]

What's the problem with it?
Did she write it in a different style or something?

[Anonymous No.6753678]

i found it to be her easiest work

[Anonymous No.6753701]

someone say something

that will make me pick To the Lighthouse as my next book.

beside the fact that i have the Everymans Library binding of it

[Anonymous No.6753707]

I love how Nabokov shat all over this book
Wasn't as bad as he made it out to be, though.

The work itself is a romance, written in a slightly old fashioned style. It does feel a bit lifeless in my opinion. The base concept of the work is actually quite interesting, but I don't think Woolf quite pulled it off. It's certainly not one of her best works.

[Anonymous No.6753970]

reviving this thread for Virginia.

[Anonymous No.6754261]

>>6752467
The movie was lame.

[Anonymous No.6754298]

woolf is so fucking boring. what's esp. pathetic to me is her creepy reverence of women & hatred of men (at least what's expressed in to the lighthouse, where the mommy is some kind of household god and the daddy is an dusty robotic daddy long-legs). like that's just sad. you fucking are a woman. you can't just indirectly praise your kind 1 dimensionally for 200 pages, c'mon.

Also her fucking writing style gives me a headache. It's fucking wishy washy. Ooh now I'm talking about this now I'm talking about this what room am I in now I just keep going from mind to mind like a hopping schizophrenic ghost isn't this progressive pleasant and modern?

Fuck off

[Anonymous No.6754601]

>>6754298
Weak bait

[Anonymous No.6754625]

I found it her most accessible work. The first part of the story is especially nice, when Orlando is still a man.

With the other works I've read by her, I could read twenty pages at a time, max. Then I'd have to put it away for a bit - though I did enjoy reading it. But Orlando was just a page turner.

If you're used to Woolf, it could be that this book is in a slightly different style. It's a lot more simple and direct. I don't know, maybe you just don't like it. It's not mandatory to like everything.

[Anonymous No.6754632]

i love woolf and found this one more of a struggle than normal too. it's not as 'beautiful' as her other books and i simply didn't find it as pleasurable to read. it was pretty funny though when i got into it

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>>6754261
You must be lame.
I loved the movie.