Ms. Hen reviews The Waves

The Waves
Virginia Woolf
Harcourt, Inc.
1931
  

Ms. Hen decided to read this because she wanted to read a book by Virginia Woolf that she had never read. She did research about THE WAVES beforehand, and thought it sounded like it would be interesting. She didn’t know how wrong she would be.

When Ms. Hen first started reading this novel, she thought it seemed like an avant-garde play where the characters stand on stage and talk about their lives in a way that’s poetic, as if they are pontificating. At first she thought it was charming, but then it began to grate on her soul.
 
She had an idea that this novel is similar to NAKED LUNCH by William S. Burrows, but she thought that notion ridiculous, but she looked it up, and she is not the only person to conceive this. Ms. Hen knows there is practically no such thing as an original idea, and this proves that is true.
 
Ms. Hen thinks this book is quite terrible, and she does not recommend it to anyone, except perhaps her worst enemy, and she does have a few, but the problem is that her worst enemies are not the type of person to pick up any type of book, because they are illiterate. Ms. Hen regrets the time she spend reading this novel, but it was temporary, as is everything in life.