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  • What a good book should bring to the reader are these:pure entertainment and thoroughly fluent narration of events, and of course, deep stirring of feelings.
    The hours has all of them.
    I can't name any other book that has so caught my attention as The Hours did. And I am unable to name any ... Continue

    What a good book should bring to the reader are these:pure entertainment and thoroughly fluent narration of events, and of course, deep stirring of feelings.
    The hours has all of them.
    I can't name any other book that has so caught my attention as The Hours did. And I am unable to name any other book as well, which has more touching paragraphs as this. For days I would read loud passages after passages, fully savouring the words. Really I would think the composition alone makes the work quite perfect in literary standard. Chapters are simply words stringed together like jewels.
    My favorite parts included the beginning where the letter, simple but with so much deep, disturbing forces not unlike the dark torrents about to carry Ms.Woolf away. The parts about Clarissa are also favorite reads.
    For reasons I have yet to uncover, some chapters concerning Richard and his mother can sometimes be unbearably painful to read. Not that the book is ill-written. The feeling of deep disturbance I guess, is the reason. Somehow it makes me uncomfortable.
    A great book. A great read, literally.

    

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• ― razor's edge said on Mar 4, 2007 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Good companion to the movie

  • This is the same story, told in mostly the same way. It's excellent. I recommend seing the movie, reading this book, reading Mrs. Dalloway and even watching the movie version of Mrs. Dalloway, if possible.

    

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• ― Hans (hansliss) said on Nov 12, 2007 | Add your feedback

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  • A lovely book. Like "Mrs Dalloway" it took me some time to get into the story, but once I did, I thought it was really remarkable.

    "The Hours" plays off "Mrs Dalloway" beautifully. And doesn't resort (entirely) to the same bash-you-over-the-head with an anvil of OMGSYMBOLISM like the movie ve ... Continue

    A lovely book. Like "Mrs Dalloway" it took me some time to get into the story, but once I did, I thought it was really remarkable.

    "The Hours" plays off "Mrs Dalloway" beautifully. And doesn't resort (entirely) to the same bash-you-over-the-head with an anvil of OMGSYMBOLISM like the movie version did.

    

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• ― Hold Your Spin said on Nov 27, 2006 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Letto in italiano, riletto in inglese. Dolce, doloroso, profondo e commovente.

    

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• ― Marzi said on Dec 2, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • Struggentemente dolce.

    

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• ― Avalon said on Oct 11, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • il film è uno dei miei preferiti eppure non riesco ad andare avanti col libro. Cunningham è bravo, ho letto altro scritto da lui, eppure questo non riesco a digerirlo...mi dispiace. ci riproverò

    

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• ― aryscartosso (ary) said on Jun 18, 2009 | Add your feedback

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel becomes a motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman, directed by Stephen Daldry from a screenplay by David Hare

The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New York is planning a party in his honor; and Laura Brown, in a 1949 Los Angeles suburb, who slowly begins to feel the constraints of a perfect family and home. By the end of the novel, these three stories intertwine in remarkable ways, and finally come together in an act of subtle and haunting grace.

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