The Hours : A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation (CD-Audio)

from doryfish

Although I don't usually like stream-of-consciousness or the use of historical figures as characters, I really enjoyed this book. Surprisingly, the author was able to make three ordinary days in the lives of the three women very compelling. I would have liked more insight from Leonard Woolf or Ri...

from mrstreme

The Hours is a complex yet succinct look into the lives of three women: Virginia Woolf as she writes Mrs. Dalloway, Clarissa Vaughan as she plans a party for her best friend, Richard, and Laura Brown as she plans a birthday party for her husband. These three women's stories are distinctive and se...

from kambrogi

Our book/movie club did this one(with [Mrs. Dalloway]). This is a book that people often finish and immediately want to read over, and I enjoyed it the second time even more than the first. It is deceptively simple, but the complexity is revealed when all the threads tie up at the end. A very int...

from RussellBittner

As I said elsewhere in my review of André Dubus's The House of Sand and Fog, I much prefer to read the book before I see the film, only because it becomes virtually impossible to divorce myself from the actors' portrayal of the characters in the book from what I imagine those characters to be as ...

from richardderus

Rating: 4.75* of five The Book Report: Three women mirror the facets of the life of Clarissa Dalloway, heroine of the novel Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. One life is Mrs. Woolf herself, shown in the depths of despair as she convalesces from one of her crippling bouts with depression in the sub...