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"A wonderful, elegant novel with humour and desperation."
"If it's as good as Unravelling Oliver I'll be very happy"
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Just finished reading Billy Summers
Mrs Dalloway is fantastic. I love the part where it just scrolls through the random thoughts of the different people in the street when she's out shopping. It's rare to read something so original. I struggled with The Waves and found Orlando so and so, but Mrs Dalloway is a true classic.
My main recollection of reading Dracula - and it is not recent! - is of expecting it to be a rather different book to the one I encountered, probably because my view had been shaped through the prism of all the various film adaptations. So while very psychological, it seemed a lot less "horrific" than I anticipated. Not sure if I'm misremembering, I think I might put both this and Frankenstein on the re-read list for Xmas.
