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A review by kevin_shepherd
Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
3.0
An enigmatic and unconventional accounting of the life of Jacob Flanders.
I feel I may have done Virginia Woolf a great disservice by reading A Room of One’s Own first. I keep expecting one of her novels to inspire me the way that first Woolf experience did. So far… no dice.
Jacob’s Room is a story where the subject rarely, if ever, takes center stage. He hovers in the peripheral vision of the reader - ever present but always ambiguous and slightly out of focus.
My Woolf reads are hit-and-miss. It’s like a trip to the movies when you’re expecting Dennis Quaid and you get Randy Quaid instead. It’s bearable but disappointing.
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2486047390
I feel I may have done Virginia Woolf a great disservice by reading A Room of One’s Own first. I keep expecting one of her novels to inspire me the way that first Woolf experience did. So far… no dice.
Jacob’s Room is a story where the subject rarely, if ever, takes center stage. He hovers in the peripheral vision of the reader - ever present but always ambiguous and slightly out of focus.
My Woolf reads are hit-and-miss. It’s like a trip to the movies when you’re expecting Dennis Quaid and you get Randy Quaid instead. It’s bearable but disappointing.
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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2486047390