This is one of the few experimental novels that I truly love. In my copy from college I think I underlined every other sentence. ( )

Woolf's words are magic and filled with such true beauty and melancholy. Finally reading her later in life continues to be a revelation. ( )

I've never read anything like this but it was so impressive. It was also challenging, frustrating, and required great attention. But the pay off was so worth it. It took me years to really understand how to read Virginia Woolf but I am in awe of her now. She had a brilliant mind and a great talent. She just requires your full attention to every sentence and that was a skill that took time for me to develop, but she has fully won me over with this book. ( )

This was an experimental novel for Woolf, one that succeeded grandly.

Taking notes, which I sometimes do, helped me follow along with these abbreviated descriptions of her sixl characters, who grew up together and remained connected in various ways throughout their lives. ( )

Oh Virginia Woolf...my greatest inspiration for writing style and gender. She was way ahead of her time in so many ways. The Waves is my favorite because it introduced me to the stream of consciousness style of writing, of the intimacy of being inside the head of a character. It is an experimental style novel with prose that reads a lot like poetry and the story is told through six children's own soliloquies. Themes of individuality, self, community also seem almost to be a part of the same one consciousness. When I first encountered this book I was stunned by the concept and fell in love with it. There is nothing else like reading Virginia Woolf. ( )