My problem with Mrs. Dalloway was that I picked it up at the same time I
was reading Proust, and she's so influenced by Proust that all I could
do was compare, and Woolf suffered by the comparison.
Anny Ballardini wrote:
> very tempted to agree with you... the movie is unbearable, Mrs. Dalloway.
>
> On 4/27/07, Peter Cudmore <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
>>
>> There are some books you only read because exams depend on it. I
>> picked up
>> one of my brother's Stephen King collection, and couldn't finish the
>> first
>> page.
>>
>> P
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> > On Behalf Of Jon Corelis
>> > Sent: 27 April 2007 04:53
>> > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > Subject: What is the most boring book ever written?
>> >
>> > In English: Our Mutual Friend, by Charles DIckens
>> > Runner-up: Anything by Henry James
>> >
>> > All time all language universal grand prize winner:
>> >
>> > De Officiis, by Cicero
>> >
>> > So boring I couldn't even get through the title.
>> >
>> > --
>> > ===================================
>> >
>> > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
>> >
>> > ===================================
>>
>
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