therealapollo Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 What are your thoughts on To The Lighthouse ? Did you find it enjoyable ? Did you find it too complicated ? How did you find the narrative ? Did you know Virginia Woolf printed her own books initially, thousand anf thousands of them, in her own house ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Not a non-fiction book! Maybe repost under General Fiction, or possibly Classics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Í've moved the topic to the Classics forum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEV67 Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 I am not a fan of Virginia Woolf and do not understand why her books are so highly rated. I do not like her books. I do not agree with her long-winded essays. In the BBC Culture top 100 British books list, To the Lighthouse came 3rd and Mrs Dalloway came 2nd. In To the Lighthouse there was a character who kept trying to paint a landscape or a seascape, but she was never satisfied until the end, because a tree was in the wrong place or something. Move your flipping easel then, is what I thought. I sometimes worry about my inability to understand and like Shakespeare and Woolf. In Oscar Wilde's De Profundis he tells his ex-boyfriend, Lord Alfred Douglas, that his cup is too small to comprehend sublime art. I think that must be my problem too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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