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Lady Orlando > Sadboy Orlando
A shame it took half the book for her to transform.

Woolf's worst mistake with this book is to think that being British is intrinsically amusing, Orlando has some interesting insights, Woolf is good at writing interior monologues, the language can be gorgeous, but the framing here is unexpectedly narrow, very aristocratic and colonial. A product of its time? Maybe so, it's mostly boring nevertheless. My first time reading a Woolf I don't really like 😔