dinsdale 's review for:

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

2.0

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I guess Virginia is just not for me. I felt a bit overwhelmed during the long first part, The Window, with it's dense prose, and had a hard time buying in with its non-existent plot. It felt like I was drowning in quicksand. To further slow my progress, at first I took the time to jump to the back of my book to reference some of the 161 notes in the book. I've never encountered a fiction book with that many notes. It was distracting.

I found the last part, The Lighthouse, to be much more readable and decipherable as there was actually something happening, and it was full of turmoil and melancholia. Overall, I thought the novel was just OK and I'm giving two stars for that reason.