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Yeah I know the picture isn't actual child porn lol. I'm just saying, they'd get upset over anything, they're fucking nazis. Someone contacted the authorities on me over something I said on facebook which sounded like I was threatening to shoot some people, when all I said is that school shootings are great because school is bullshit or something. That's the effect of what I said, wasn't even making a threat and someone called the authorities on me. Now I'm on their list, and they came and asked me a bunch of questions the other day because I fit the description of someone else who committed a crime who matched my description. The cop's a fucking faggot, he just wants my dick.

Well, it is a difficult book, even though it isn't particularly famous for its difficulty (like say Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow). Its chronology and structure is fucked which means you'll expend a bit of effort to sort through it

I don't think I've ever read another book that's so internal; what I mean is that Woolf rareely takes us outside the heads of the characters. It simply cycles around the characters, describing their thoughts and feelings (some have said imitating the lighthouse beam).

Its essentially a novel about order and the decay thereof, played out within a family. If the idea of broken or dysfunctional family interests you, TTL deals with the subject subtly and differently from any other novel. It's tragedy played out in the most tragic arena: family, specifically disintegrating, doomed family, serving as a microcosm of the loss of stability (which Woolf portrays both as liberating and damning) following the first world war.

Her prose is great, especially in the novel's middle section, basically an extended prose poem, again describing decay and entropy.

But where Woolf, to me, really shines is characterization. She understands both that people exist in relation to each other (the charcters are not wrapped in their own psyches at all and engage very much with the other characters, worrying abou the impression they make, forming impressions of them) and also the irony that, despite this inherent social yearning to have a closer, more intimate understanding of others, we are ultimately forever seperated from others.

I really fucking love this book (which is maybe why Mrs Dalloway was so disappointing to me). It's a really beautifully elegiac portrayal of social and family relationships, and comes the closest to capturing the mood of ancient greek tragedy of anything I've read outside of those plays themselves.

To an extent. But this is markedly truer for some book than others. High modernist stuff tends to benefit from rereadings more than say russian realists, simply because these novels are structurally and ideologically designed to resist straightforward interpretations. I was just pointing this out because my appreciation for the book increased greatly rereading it.

I find Gravity's Rainbow easy to be honest. Ulysses is hard indeed.
I like what you wrote user. I like it a lot and the topic is extremely interesting to me.
Thank you for such a nice answer.

Also, does anyone want to make a case for The Waves, since I haven't read it and so can't comment

Or does anyone want to explain the appeal of Mrs Dalloway? It's strange because all of the other people I've met who hated that book hate Woolf generally but To The Lighthouse is one of my favourite novels

skim The Waves then read the far superior Wavves

If you find Gravity's Rainbow easy then To The Lighthouse won't seem difficult to you at all. It's nowhere near as structurally complex as Gravity's Rainbow. And it's stream-of-conciousness (if you even want to call it that) isnt the fragmented Joycean kind, but fairly straightforwardly descriptive.

That's good news user. Have a Schopy meme.

Thanks mang, just what I was looking for

>does anyone want to explain the appeal of Mrs Dalloway?
It's the only Woolf I've read and it immediately became the best novel I've read this year.
Bear in mind that it has virtually no plot, the least of any book I've ever read. Mrs. Dalloway throws a dinner party, that's it. The other ~200 pages follow her and her friends as they go about their day socializing, running errands, and getting ready for the party, having existential crises, and contemplating suicide. She really digs into the psychology of her characters and themes of existentialism and solitude. It's very easy to dislike this book if the themes and characters do not resonate with you.
Nothing really happens but it still moved my like no other book and made me feel oddly melancholic. I felt disarmed by her insight but not threatened.

Its odd because a lot of what you found in Mrs Dalloway is the stuff I really loved in To The Lighthouse (which I'd recommend to you; what you describe in Mrs Dalloway is there tenfold). But, like you say, it just didn't resonate with me. I really wish it did, because I don't think its a badly written book by any means; just the characters turned me off I guess

That picture isn't going to somehow make matters worse when they cops find the -actual- CP on your computer.
And don't pretend you haven't got any, we're on Veeky Forums.

Legitimately thought that was someone exposing their asshole over a baby.

Imagine being the baby. And do the parents show this embarrassing photo to the kids gf?

Fucking baby is getting all the attention. Someone talk about The Waves.

i literally have no idea what is going on in that picture

what am i looking at here?

wow i just realized. its a dad kissing a baby. his heads on the left

I see it now dude, mind blown. I thought it was some kind of weird photoshop.