I, too, found some passages of great emotional intensity and beauty (an example would be the moment Clarissa is kissed by Sally). On the other hand, a great deal of the time I was slogging through page after page of boring trivia. I appreciate that many find this book very fine and I envy their perceptions. For me . . . though on the whole I was glad that I had the experience of reading Virginia Woolf, I have no desire to repeat that experience.
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