The Hours so far has not been a bad book. At the beginning of the book I felt as if it was but a mirror image of its counterpart Mrs. Dalloway and that I was basically going to be rereading Mrs. Dalloway for the second time. They even started the book out at the flower shop and for sure I knew I was going to have a hard time reading this but once I got into the book a bit more I started to be interested with the idea of taking Mrs. Woolf and making her a fictional character. The author, although using many similar scenes from Mrs. Dalloway, had a diffrent way of portraying his version of the book and I like the way the author writes and explains the characters throughout the novel even though I still get a bit confused on who is who. One of my favorite parts of the novel is when they bring Laura Brown into the picture. I enjoy how the author compares the cake to a novel and the unsatisfactory of both Mrs. Brown and Virgina Woolf with the work that they see as being finished but say it not what they portrayed in there minds.
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Cam,
I'm glad you are beginning to like this book. I also agree that Laura Brown is a nice change of pace considering she is the only authentic character in the novel.
Not to parrot Josh, but I, too, am glad that you're enjoying the book and that you find Laura Brown (the only really 'original' element of the novel, to be engaging. I was also taken by the fact that you enjoy seeing Woolf portrayed almost as a fictional character (as so many of your peers see this as a pretty presumptuous act on Cunningham's part). Write more! (I'm interested in your observations!).
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