Friday, January 23, 2009

Thus far I really enjoy reading this book. I find it very poetic and smooth to read. The plot structure Cunningham uses with the three women makes the book very interesting. It holds your attention all the way through and makes you wonder how they all pertain to the larger picture. Although Cunningham is somewhat modernizing Woolfs Miss. Dalloway i enjoy his use of Virgina Woolf as a character. She may be a fictional character but there is a perose to it. It gives us a different perspectuse angle to anilitacly look at Miss. Dalloway. Mrs. Brown, Ms. Dalloway and Virgina Woolf are all meaningful characters that are interesting to read about. I am exited to learn more about the rest of the book and how it unfolds between these women. At the time they are nearly entirerly seperate with few relations like the novel Ms. Dalloway. I commend Cunningham in reproducing Ms. Dalloway and adding in his own twist and plot to it. They are deffinetly different novels but have many relations. I like it so far.

3 comments:

Meg said...

Yeah - for sure. I do really like how he twists Mrs. Dalloway's plot to fit his own style. Some people think it's lame and Cunningham has no originality but I like it. Also, the space and time between the three women is interesting, and the fact that they're all related in some way makes it even better. Good stuff Carl. Ha.

David Lavender said...

Carl,

I'm glad your liking the novel thus far (and finding its prose 'poetic'). I think you're right to applaud the deftness with which Cunningham renders Virginia Woolf's interior life (regardless of whether or not this is a legitimate thing for a writer of fiction to do). Nice defense of the novel, and a good post!

colors of the rainbow said...

although the characters appear to be "entirerly seperate" i think that there are many subtile connection we can make between them all. but i do agree that the book has been interesting thus far.