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travelling_bookworm 's review for:
The Voyage Out
by Virginia Woolf
challenging
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
“That was the strange thing, that one did not know where one was going, or what one wanted, and followed blindly, suffering so much in secret, always unprepared and amazed and knowing nothing; but one thing led to another and by degrees something had formed itself out of nothing, and so one reached at last this calm, this quiet, this certainty, and it was this process that people called living.”
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Virginia Woolf novels all have the same effect on me. They are simultaneously captivating and suffocating, diving deep into the consciousness of her characters rather than the flow of the actual plot. The result is a beautifully written but strange warp of sickeningly fast inner dialogue and emotions churning in a snail-paced story.
It is always a big effort for me to get through a Woolf novel, but by the end, I have never come to regret it yet.
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Virginia Woolf novels all have the same effect on me. They are simultaneously captivating and suffocating, diving deep into the consciousness of her characters rather than the flow of the actual plot. The result is a beautifully written but strange warp of sickeningly fast inner dialogue and emotions churning in a snail-paced story.
It is always a big effort for me to get through a Woolf novel, but by the end, I have never come to regret it yet.