What do you think about Woolf, and modernist literature? Any Dalloway fans out there?

Fantastic review!! Just finished reading the book a few days ago and loved it. “Time Passes” is one of the most extraordinary and vivid reading experiences I've ever read.

This is the best review of this book on KZfaq. Really brilliant. Thanks for your analysis and perspective!

Thank you for a really clear explanation and review of ‘To The Lighthouse’. It helped me persevere with the book and enjoy it more.

Excellent video. To the Lighthouse was recommended to me by a bookseller. I enjoyed it very much, reading it as if it all made sense, or just uncritically, I guess. And I really DID want to go to the lighthouse!

I want to get more into Virginia Woolf. I read A Room of One’s Own recently and I loved her writing style.

This is going on my list! Great review my friend !

Modernist writers such as Woolf are often criticised for the lack of plot and coherence in their work. As you state in the video, Woolf was interested in the inner workings of the mind which accounts for the apparent randomness of descriptions in modernist writing such as hers, where thoughts come tumbling out, sometimes with no obvious connection. If you think about it, isn't this just what happens to each of us in our daily lives? Whilst we carry out our daily activities, unconnected thoughts come to us in complete randomness, often without us even being aware of them. Any writer who can convey this experience in written form, in a convincing way, deserves nothing but praise.

I love your reviews !

Thanks for ur review I couldn’t understand this book in my novel class and things were so complicated while my teacher was explaining it but now i got the general idea ! Many Thanks !!❤️

I loved it. It brought me to tears on an airplane, I am a huge fan of the brilliant Virginia Woolf

loved this video! very well said!!

I just watched this for my Novel class, took some great notes. Thank you!

Perfection! Enjoyed it a lot ❤

Yes, your analysis is wonderful, I listened to the half of the book and stop to get the book and read it.

Thanks for the Brilliant review, loved it...

Hi Joshua. I'm currently reading To the Lighthouse and find this overview helpful. I had the same reaction to Mrs. Dalloway that you did---I hated it. I may pick it up at a later date.

Like you, I did not like the book at first. But your analysis of it gives me more appreciation.

Thanks for this review. I really like "Mrs. Dalloway". I enjoy the stream of consciousness style, the fact that it's set in London where I have lived, and the unvarnished inner thoughts of the characters. It's the only book by Woolf that I have read so far. I think "To the Lighthouse" will be next.

Brilliant 🤩

Orlando, is one of my favorite book Woolf books.

Good review. My reservation with Virginia Woolf is that, good as her books undoubtedly are, her style of writing definitely takes some getting used to. It sometimes lacks fluidity (or could be more mellifluous in the way it "sounds"). Reading Woolf is a bit like driving down a cobbled street in a car with no tires. The scenery is there but it's a bumpy ride and makes progress rather sluggish. I say that having read Mrs. Dalloway (once), and To The Lighthouse (1 and half times).

Hi Joshua. I just finished To The Lighthouse and enjoyed it, although I had some trouble following the various characters' thoughts and had to go back and reread passages; as you mentioned the writing style of Virginia Woolf, the thoughts are fluid and they jump around throughout the book. I have to say, now that I watched your video review, I understand the story better overall, so thanks. I also read Mrs. Dalloway; that was my first time reading Virginia Woolf; I was taken aback at first by her style of writing. With that one, I listened to an audiobook version while reading it, and I enjoyed the book and finished it quickly. I wanted to know, although you mentioned you read Mrs. Dalloway when you were younger, do you like it now re-reading it? And have you seen the movie version of Mrs. Dalloway? I watched it after I read the book, and I really liked it. It helped me understand the book better and I thought it was well-acted. I recommend it if you haven't yet seen it. Again, thanks for your review.

The best review I could find, from explaining the plot, and the writing style to the essence and meaning of it. Thank you :)

To The Lighthouse is my favourite Woolf novel, it's just superb! I loved reading it for my degree

only read a room of one's own and did not like it. kinda want to give her another chance. what book would you recommend to start with?

Is it a adult story?

Seems quite ironic that you didn't like Wolfe and then years later you found you did as the whole premise of To The Lighthouse is loss and the inability to regain things later. No amount of doing English again will replace the wonder of what it might have been the first time around. I am reading it for the second time, and very slowly, its a great book but complex to follow.

You should improve the pronunciation of "proust"☀️🌞😎

My first ever DNF. Found it infuriating. The grammar is atrocious and the characters are just catapulted into the chapters without any explanation as to who they are 🤷🏻‍♂️