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Reviewing Mrs. Dalloway — whether one has read it or not

Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf, tagged on Sunday 15 November 2015| 2 Comments »

I came across two things today that play off each other in an interesting way. The first is a thoughtful review of Mrs. Mrs. DallowayDalloway (1925) from a first-time reader. The second is a compilation of one-star reviews of the novel posted on Amazon — with original punctuation and spelling intact.

Here are the links:

Key quotes from the one-star Amazon reviews:

I may not be giving it a fair review since I only made it to page 65

and

everyone i know who likes this book only does so because he or she was told by some professor that it’s supposed to be good and can provide no evidence to confirm it

and

definitley not a fun read

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