I feel as though I'm finding it difficult to grasp this novel in a deeper sense, while it's quite an easy read ... For some reason, this book while intriguing is also confusing ... Nada
I can't quite say I fully understood this book. I can't even say I understood what was most important about it---its message, as Nada put it ... Brittany
I've now read the first couple chapters of Orlando, and I am not exactly sure what I make of it. It reads almost like a fairy tale ... Maureen
I guess Woolf intended for Orlando's transformation to be ambiguous, although after reading Middlesex and HB, I want to know the details! ... Becky
a representation of her theory of the androgynous mind necessary for the writer ... Rebekah
From the perspective of someone who wants to be a writer, Woolf has a great way of catching the formulation of a story both in the action of the novel (with Orlando) and with Orlando's own creations ... Lauren
She even comments on her own writing style p. 78 "...who has so much to answer for besides the perhaps unwieldy length of this sentence..." I have to say, I read that sentence over and over because I was so impressed that she had the skill to pull off such a lengthy sentence ... Ghazal
I find Woolf's storytelling style lush and enchanting ... at the same time I do feel there is some essential truth being sought or explored, and that Woolf does not take this task lightly ... Kate
I don't think of this book as the story of a hermaphrodite, I think I read Orlando as a woman who went through a tomboy phase. Not even. She seemed to have an expression of gender that was read as male as a boy, and she was just a boy who grew up to be a woman. Maybe that's just as likely as anything else, as a boy growing into a man or a girl growing into a woman. In literature, at least, why not? ... Jessica
the mind I like to think has more freedom than the body to be whatever it wants or is thanks to the neocortex and its ability to create new stories ... Liz
Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898, Alice in Wonderland
Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Lessness
Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941
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