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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
challenging
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
una decepción bastante dolorosa :( le daré otra oportunidad a woolf en un futuro, pero simplemente creo que su narrativa no es para mí
I didn't want this to end. Beautiful, mesmerizing, deeply wounding, and very difficult to read. I would have given up on V. Woolf if it wasn't for this book. The story follows the lives of six children as they emerge from the depths of childhood innocence to the stuffy desperation of adulthood. I understand that this book is not necessarily everyone's cup of tea due to the way it was written, however, I might have enjoyed it because of its overwhelming and chaotic nature. In this book you will be tangled with the characters' thoughts, emotions, and the imagery around them, and you will bloom with feelings. It's surprisingly very satisfying to be in six heads at once, taking notes and escaping from one life to another at your own leisure. I also need to add that I found it absolutely impossible to read this book if I wasn't in a very very quiet room. Surely never a bad idea to end the year with this book, and thus end my 2016 reading challenge.
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
First let me say that Virginia Woolf is an unbelievably talented writer, and that talent is on full display in The Waves. But this book was not for me. I'll leave it at that.
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The most unique fiction I’ve ever read. Lovely and poetic, stream of consciousness, inner monologue reflection on the human experience with the oddest sense of time. I enjoyed it for its genius, but did find myself speed reading towards the end of the book. Some lovely lines that will stay with me.
dark
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It was a good book, just the wrong time. I‘ll pick it up again in summer :)
Easily one of my favorite books ever written. The 'waves' become a compound metaphor of sheer brilliance; we are all a harmony in the chorus of life, a part of a whole but each an individual part of beauty equally beautiful in solidarity as the whole. I wish I could write a single sentence as glorious as Woolf.