Virginia Woolf and Bonnie Kime Scott - Mrs Dalloway

Pros: juggling characters' interiorities with great skill and economy

Cons: longer than it needs to be (though not long)

The Bottom Line: There are many pleasures of the text in a modernist classic that those viewing themselves as literate (in more than a functional sense) have to have read.

Review: Preface to the preface to the review(!) In its very finite wisdom, epinions disconnected seven reviews of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway from that category and attached the reviews to A Room of One's Own (at the rather ...

Pros: Fantastic delving into the souls of the characters.

Cons: You really feel lost at the beginning of the book.

The Bottom Line: "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself."

Review: I am not sure I am a good enough writer to describe this book to you, but I will try my best anyhow, because it really needs to be done. I just finished reading Virginia Woolf's most popular book, "Mrs. Dalloway". I felt the need to pick it up as a...

Pros: Excellent book

Cons: none

Review: Mrs. Dalloway is a very well written book with a very solid story plot and interesting characters.

Following the life of Mrs. Dalloway and the other characters is a pleasure and an interesting journey that makes you think. What is what keeps...

Pros: sympathetic, "three-dimensional" characters

Cons: can, admittedly, be slow at times

Review: As soon as I finished Mrs. Dalloway the first time, I picked it back up and read it straight through again because I couldn't believe how good it was: how funny at times, how tragic at others, how vividly and sharply the characters are drawn. All of the...

Pros: Good character studies

Cons: Plot can move slowly in some parts

The Bottom Line: A good book with some great characters.

Review: Virginia Woolf has a unique writing style that has greatly contributed to the success and impact of her well-known classics. She writes in a stream-of-consciousness style. This style defines her novels, all of which would be distinctly different if it...

Pros: Great poetic passages

Cons: Difficult to follow

The Bottom Line: I may give Mrs. Dalloway another chance. Perhaps I was simply caught off guard by Woolf's unique style. Just the same, it bored me. But give it a try.

Review: This book can be seen on many levels; unfortunately, I found the lowest level to be extremely shallow. On this level, Mrs. Dalloway depicts a day in the life of a young woman, Clarissa Dalloway, who on this particular day, is organizing a party. It is...

Pros: It finally, finally, finally was over!!!

Cons: Everything between the front cover and the back cover.

The Bottom Line: I soon became disenchanted by the complexity of the sentence structure,the time and character confusion,and the black hearted musings of a cynical author. Run, don't walk away from this novel!

Review: Clarissa Dalloway, an average housewife in turn of the century London, is pondering her party later in the evening, brooding over the disarray of her new hat, wondering if she should have had a lesbian love affair in her youth with her best friend, ...