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holiver8269 's review for:
Orlando
by Virginia Woolf
This is a 3/3.5⭐️ book in the way a classic is 3/3.5⭐️ rather than a runoff the mill contemporary book. Like the writing is in-depth and conceptual but is that just because it’s from 1929?
I got bored with this book, which was sad because I loved the film so much when I first watched it. The character of Orlando is hard to get behind because they are whiny, selfish and morose to an extreme and majorly because you the reader are kept at a distance from them by the structure of narration. In 400 years Orlando spends most of their time learning nothing and doing nothing and then falling in love…kinda?
Also as a modern audience you can feeeeel that this book is from 1920s USA as Wolf inputs her own understanding of gender essentialism from time to time in random chapters and throws in the odd slur that makes reading this book uncomfortable and/or frustrating.
While the concept of Orlando is interesting, the core storybeat of Orlando changing sex comes late-ish into the book and is mostly glossed over by the mc themself. It is a short book and yet it felt so long.
I got bored with this book, which was sad because I loved the film so much when I first watched it. The character of Orlando is hard to get behind because they are whiny, selfish and morose to an extreme and majorly because you the reader are kept at a distance from them by the structure of narration. In 400 years Orlando spends most of their time learning nothing and doing nothing and then falling in love…kinda?
Also as a modern audience you can feeeeel that this book is from 1920s USA as Wolf inputs her own understanding of gender essentialism from time to time in random chapters and throws in the odd slur that makes reading this book uncomfortable and/or frustrating.
While the concept of Orlando is interesting, the core storybeat of Orlando changing sex comes late-ish into the book and is mostly glossed over by the mc themself. It is a short book and yet it felt so long.