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The Voyage Out is a slog to read ... as you ask yourself if Rachel Vinrace will EVER die ... and let the characters and plot, and the reader, get on with their lives. And Night and Day drags on so long, you really stop caring which couple will pair off with whom ...
Jacob's Room is a transition piece, after which Woolf finds her voice, so to speak, and her novels become gems of careful construction and employ a vocabulary that delights the senses. Her later novels are for savoring, with discoveries every time you return to them.
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