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A review by brookexwest
The Years by Virginia Woolf
2.0
Listened to this as an audio book and really wish I hadn’t as the narrator massively spoiled the whole thing for me. So much of Woolf’s brilliance is in the nuance in her prose, in her characters’ delivery, and the subtle wit and humour beneath everything. That just didn’t come across in the audio book and the characters all felt flat, one dimensional, and just generally quite annoying. I lost interest in a lot of the plot just because of this and that’s such a shame as there were some passages I knew I would’ve loved if it had been in my head. Never mind, a lesson for me to sample audio books in the future before piling in.