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Originally Posted by DubaiSis

I'm reading Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I'm getting through it ok, but I just don't get the point. If you're going to have a story about a person who randomly changes gender and lives forever, shouldn't it be sci-fi AND have some sort of explanation about both things. I mean, at least she says, isn't this weird, he woke up one day and was a woman. But there is no mention whatever about why she has lived for more than 300 years and why nobody questions that fact, even though it doesn't seem to be a secret.

Oh, and the book itself was apparently used as someone's reading for class. It has pencil underlining all through it, in places that seem more or less random and make it very distracting. I have gone through almost an entire pencil-top eraser making those stupid lines go away.

Virginia Woolf is, in my opinion, a writer to trudge through only because you have to for your lit class. In other words, I am not a fan.