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This is Virginia Woolf's first so it was before her more experimental stream of consciousness writing. I haven't read her later works yet. I'm glad I started with this one because if I don't end up liking that style it would have kept me from this. Her writing is beautiful in an understated non pretentious way. It feels effortless and lyrical. I was mesmerized.

If you need something plot driven, stay away because you won't get that.
This is about Rachel, a naïve sheltered young woman who takes a voyage with her aunt and uncle from England to South America, and matures through interesting conversations about politics, art, science, religion and relationships. It's short on action but long on ideas written in gorgeous prose. I'll definitely read more Woolf and likely in order. The Dalloway's were characters in this book so maybe she expounds on other characters in future books.


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The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 9780156028059 Books Reviews

I enjoyed this book immensely. It has a freshness not found in Woolf's other novels, and also a lot of entertaining eccentric dialogue - a pity she didn't cultivate her gift for social comedy! It's also a very searching book, opening issues of gender, marriage, nationality which she explores more deeply in her major works. If there's a down side to it, it seems as if her characters never really leave England - and it's never explained why Rachel is on this voyage.
Don't really have time for a long, in-depth review, but I'll hit my major point. Never before have I read such poignant, eloquent prose. Every word carries meaning; there's no excess, pointless pasages. As to the actual tale, I enjoyed it excessively. Romantic in its own way, but even better it presents the insecurities and trials of actual people. Nothing is smoothed over or romanticized. That gives it a flavor of originality. As to which version to get....in this case it doesn't really matter, since there's no translations, but I was very impressed with the Barnes and Nobles version. The notes and introduction were excellent in their explanations. Since I haven't gotten the Peguin Classics edition or the Oxford edition I can't say which is superior, but the B&N was satisfactory. Anyways, very pleased with my buy, and I hope to read more of Woolf's work.....I think Night and Day is the next one on my list!
The fish swim in circles, sometimes going up, sometimes going down, and sometimes feeding.Other than that, it is watching them do the same things over and over again without any real story. The Voyage Out was just like that. People came in and came out. No real plot developed. Sometimes there was an electrical storm to liven things up. Once, a dance helped break the monotony. Beyond that was nothing.
I appreciate the writing style, but I found the book itself boring. I was 3/4 of the way through it before anything of note happened. The characters do little to distinguish themselves from each other, to the point that I sometimes had to go back to see which one was being written about. Since this was Woolf's first novel, I presume she got better, but I'm not about to read another of her works to find out.
This novel, I believe, was Virginia Woolf's first. It also underwent considerable alteration in the tortured journey towards publication, much of its (original) politics being too strong for its publishers to stomach. Which makes one wonder what has been lost.

What remains, however, is a moving story of a number of English men and women cast adrift in a luxury hotel or villa in some unspecified South American port.

It is also a love story - with tragic consequences that would be unfair of me to fully reveal in this brief review. Let me just add that it also has one of the best accounts of sea-sickness (I too am a sufferer) that I have ever read (it made me queasy just to read it!) and one of the best accounts of the hallucinations brought on by fever since Flaubert's 'Madame Bovary' - no mean feat for a new, young writer.

This is a marvelous book and an excellent introduction to the extraordinary novels that were to follow 'Voyage Out'.
If you are willing to take your time and read this book as though you were in a deck chair on a leisurely cruise yourself, the rhythms will be congenial. Woolf's sharply observed observations along the way well repay a reader's time beyond the interest of the narrative and characters.
When I complained to my daughters that I really did not like the ending, they said, "Well, it's a girl's book, and that's how many of them work." Woolf does an absolutely superb job fairly early in, of depicting a storm at sea. She also handles the development of love in her main character (and some others) exquisitely.
This is the third novel I've read by Virginia Woolf and whilst I found it to be the most "readable" of the novels that I've read to date I couldn't in all honesty say that it was an easy read. I kept waiting for something to happen, some momentous event to push the story along. It wasn't until I gained some patience and just went with the flow that I began to see the light and appreciate the vein in which it is written.

One thing that has become apparent is that I shall have to source a copy of Mrs Dalloway now.

Was also surprised to find that it was the "debut" novel for the author.
This is Virginia Woolf's first so it was before her more experimental stream of consciousness writing. I haven't read her later works yet. I'm glad I started with this one because if I don't end up liking that style it would have kept me from this. Her writing is beautiful in an understated non pretentious way. It feels effortless and lyrical. I was mesmerized.

If you need something plot driven, stay away because you won't get that.
This is about Rachel, a naïve sheltered young woman who takes a voyage with her aunt and uncle from England to South America, and matures through interesting conversations about politics, art, science, religion and relationships. It's short on action but long on ideas written in gorgeous prose. I'll definitely read more Woolf and likely in order. The Dalloway's were characters in this book so maybe she expounds on other characters in future books.