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This took me a few chapters to get into, but when I did, I really did. Someone else wrote this tip, and it is absolutely true: sit down and spend a chunk of time at a go on this. Don't just read a few pages before falling asleep. The music of the writing takes a little while to settle into at first and then it becomes beautiful. These characters will stick with you.


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To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf 9781406792393 Books Reviews

Beautifully written in the unique style that defines Virgina Woolf. If Woolf were a musician, I think she might enjoy either improvising as a jazz artist or extemporizing classical cadenzas. It takes an effort to stay connected to the story line as Woolf employs the narrative technique, stream of conciousness. Abudantly filled with "food for thought" in terms of both symbolism and the characters inner and outer thoughts/actions. The human condition is complex; Woolf pens masterfully.

A book to read - and then read again.
Wowzers, it’s really great. This was my first reading of Woolf, and I was really hypnotized by her style. It was an emotional rollercoaster, and I highly recommend you ride it. A very quick read, under 200 pages, and it just flows and flows. Lyrical.
I'd never read any Virginia Woolf, and after listening to this audio version, I'm glad I didn't. Virginia Leishman's beautiful reading slowed the book down enough that the beauty of the language and the emotion came through in a way that I might now have appreciated if I'd read the book myself. One of my favorite audiobook experiences of all time. I've now bought additional copies of this for three or four friends. Highly, highly recommended. If you aren't a Virginia Woolf fan, it will make you into one. If you aren't an audio book fan, you will be after listening to this transcendent reading.
"So much depends, she thought, upon distance; whether people are near to us or far from us". So writes Virginia Woolf of the forlorn, but independent Lily Briscoe in To the Lighthouse. There are so many adjectives one can use to describe how truly great this novel is. To sum the action up would be rather easy. It's about the Ramsay family vacationing at a Scottish beach house in the early nineteen hundreds. From the outside the action seems minimal, but Woolf constructs this novel from the inside. We glimpse the inner workings of the characters on this little island. We see their thoughts, weaknesses, loves, and losses. As Woolf writes so much of the novel deals with distance. Distance to time, to each other, and the perceptions we conjure in our minds. This book on the one hand is about perceptions and how we perceive each other in life. The whole novel is set as if it were in slow motion. Very few words are spoken, but the ones that are take on important meaning in the story. As I was reading I felt much the same way as Mr. Ramsay, James, and Cam thought as they journeyed to the lighthouse. I allowed Virginia Woolf's beautiful prose to wash over me. Her words moved much the same as a wave does; seemingly innocent at first, but packed with a punch that could knock you on your feet. There are so many beautiful characters in this story from the elegant and motherly Mrs. Ramsay to the conflicted and sexist Mr. Tansley. Perhaps my favorite part of the whole novel was the dinner scene. So many sorrowful and joyous things culminating at once. There were many times in this novel that I was almost moved to tears reading the descriptive sentences that Woolf weaves together. I will admit that this was no easy read. It may be only 200 pages, but each page lingers with the reader and begs to be slowed down; allowing the words to wash over them. A modernist classic To the Lighthouse implements Woolf's stream of consciousness technique that many may find difficult or confusing to read. My advice is to slow down. You may get confused trying to decipher who's mind you are in. but after a while it begins to flow. To the Lighthouse is true classic, and highly recommend it!
Virginia Woolf facile use of the English language is breath-taking. She conveys the interior monologue of her characters, with its tangents and non-sequiturs, lucidly and it easy for the reader to follow without becoming disoriented or lost in the words. Read this just to savor her sentences! The ideas of someone from pre- and post-WW I was an interesting contrast as well.
This latest was probably my third reading. And I realized that To the Lighthouse may be my favorite novel of all time. It tops a handful of other novels and memoirs in my top ten. It is so deeply imagined, gorgeously written, and brilliantly structured. I like it personally better than Mrs. Dalloway, and it's right up there with Woolf's nonfiction masterpiece, A Room of One's Own.

I actually read the party scene that culminates the novel's first section out loud to my wife, which took a solid hour and was incredibly emotional and moving. That long scene is a real jaw-dropper, a masterpiece within a masterpiece. Warning if you try reading it out loud and sort of act out the parts and dialogue, your voice may crack.

However, some people do bounce right off To the Lighthouse, as they do with any book. I urged it on my brother in law, and he bogged down and was lost immediately in the richly layered first section. If that happens to you, here is my advice read it in reverse order. Start with the last section, the trip to the lighthouse, which is very straightforward. Then read the short middle section, Time Passes, which is only slightly less clear. Then tackle the first section, which portrays the Ramsay family and their friends socializing at the beach house and debating whether to sail to the lighthouse.

The character of the painter Lilly Briscoe in the first section fascinates me, as does her reappearance in the final act.
This took me a few chapters to get into, but when I did, I really did. Someone else wrote this tip, and it is absolutely true sit down and spend a chunk of time at a go on this. Don't just read a few pages before falling asleep. The music of the writing takes a little while to settle into at first and then it becomes beautiful. These characters will stick with you.