I tried really hard to like this book. In many ways it should be wonderful: a complex, layered slice of English lives. But it never really feels like it gets started -- it perfectly gets across the phenomenology of being at a party and not quite knowing everyone, or catching sight of yourself in a mirror and wondering how you got there in life, which seems to be what Woolf was trying to do. But this ends being a bit self-defeating, because the whole thing is so well-observed and so true to life and covers so much ground that everyone already knows what these things feel like anyway! Felt a bit like reading a dictionary in one's own language.
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HugoHeagren reviewed The Years by Virginia Woolf
Not great
2 stars
HugoHeagren finished reading The Years by Virginia Woolf
HugoHeagren wants to read Stoner by John Williams
Stoner by John Williams
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the …
HugoHeagren wants to read Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground (pre-reform Russian: Записки изъ подполья; post-reform Russian: Записки из подполья, tr. Zapíski iz podpólʹya), also translated as …
HugoHeagren wants to read Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
HugoHeagren started reading Speech acts: an essay in the philosophy of language by John Searle
Wittgenstein on rules and private language : an elementary exposition by Saul A. Kripke
Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language is a 1982 book by philosopher of language Saul Kripke in which he contends …
HugoHeagren wants to read The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati (A Verba Mundi book)
The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati (A Verba Mundi book)
HugoHeagren finished reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Set in an addicts' hallway house and a tennis academy, and featuring one of the moste endearing screwed-up families in …
HugoHeagren wants to read Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann
In this magnificent work of fiction, William T. Vollmann turns his trenchant eye to the authoritarian cultures of Germany and …
HugoHeagren finished reading Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed …
