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Narrated by:
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Veronika Hyks
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Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's semi-biographical novel, inspired by her life changing love affair with Vita Sackville-West, takes us on an exhilarating, fantastical roller coaster, tracing 400 years of English history, in the company of her shape-shifting, gender-bending, time-travelling hero Orlando, whose inner conflicts and triumphs challenge our preconceptions of the nature of love, the battle of the sexes, posing socal and metaphysical questions including what we now call climate change.
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I listen to this over and over
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I know this is a very well respected book and also considered to be one of Woolf's most popular and accessible books, though I can't agree with the latter adjective. It was written for Vita Sackville West, with whom Woolf had a love affair, but having no background on their relationship and having not read their correspondence, I couldn't begin to guess how the book was a tribute to her erstwhile lover, or why it is considered to be one of the best lesbian fiction books, or even a feminist one for that matter. In short, I was less than taken with the whole, so I'll stick to Mrs Dalloway and A Room of One's Own as my two favourite Virginia Woolf books thus far. On the other hand, the excellent narration by Veronika Hyks kept me going and I very much hope we'll be finding more audiobooks narrated by her in near future.
A Strange Inexplicable Tale, Beautifully Narrated.
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Loved, but....
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Lovely!
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Wonderful narration. Curious book.
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Basically it is a biography of a woman who pretends to be a man so she can have sex with women (and some transgender theorists claim she was transgendered but I didn't see this, I just saw a lesbian trying to live as a man in a world that didn't allow lesbians) and writes page after page about their clothing, their culture, their houses, their roads, their scenery.... ad nauseam.
Again, I tried to read this in text form but the paragraphs are very very long and it was hard to keep my place without my eyes glazing over in boredom, so I got it in audio... which was better only because my eyes no longer hurt.
The narrator was fine. It is just an overwritten story that is not nearly as interesting to "regular" readers as it would have been to its target audience (Woolf's lover), or perhaps to theorists interested in lesbian fiction, or transgenderism in fiction, etc... and, of course, it is a classic so there is nothing graphic in it.
Overwritten and plotless... or trans theory?
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