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A zany tour through English history based on a house
Telescopic time.
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Orlando: A Biography
Virginia Woolf
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In 1928, way before everyone else was talking about gender-bending and way, way before the terrific movie with Tilda Swinton, Virginia Woolf wrote her comic masterpiece, a fantastic, fanciful love letter disguised as a biography, to Vita Sackville-West. Orlando enters the book as an Elizabethan nobleman and leaves the book three centuries and one change of gender later as a liberated woman of the 1920s. Along the way this most rambunctious of Woolf's characters engages in sword fights, trades barbs with 18th century wits, has a baby, and drives a car. This is a deliriously written, breathless-making book and a classic both of lesbian literature and the Western canon.

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In her most exuberant, most fanciful novel, Woolf has created a character liberated from the restraints of time and sex. Born in the Elizabethan Age to wealth and position, Orlando is a young nobleman at the beginning of the story-and a modern woman three centuries later. “A poetic masterpiece of the first rank” (Rebecca West). The source of a critically acclaimed 1993 feature film directed by Sally Potter. Index; illustrations.

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A zany tour through English history based on a house.......2007-05-06

I read Orlando because someone told me that a central theme was Knole, the massive great house of the Sackvilles in Sevenoaks, in Kent south west of London. (I also liked Mrs Dalloway--See my Amazon review.) When we lived in London my family and I spent a day at Knole. It is supposedly the largest private house in England. Much of it now belongs to the National Trust. Knole beggars description--it is a vast mansion, brooding, and dark, but also eminent; it is a castle, a factory, mills, breweries, a village, and menagerie. I remember the deer as being especially numerous and friendly. Orlando the novel is dedicated to Vita Sackville-West who sadly was unable to inherit Knole although she grew up there. Only males could inherit.

The novel Orlando is a tour through English history from the mid-15 hundreds to 1928 always from odd perspectives. It is also a subtle and searching exploration of gender roles, social roles, and artistic and creative efforts. Themes interweave with lightning speed. It's crazy, funny, satirical, wild, and moody. I found parts to be incoherent, post-modern stream-of-consciousness, but most is entertaining and illuminating.

But this novel always comes back to Knole just as Orlando does. He/she (there is a sex change mid-novel) tours her house, thinks about it, ponders it, worries about it, and is always focused on it. Orlando lives for hundreds of years, but somehow I think he/she is a metaphor for the great house. Knole is not mentioned by name in the novel, but that's it. Knole is also the setting for The Edwardians by Vita Sackville-West. Knole is very worth a visit if you get to London or Kent. On the web at the National Trust website.

A visit in person however would help bring the novel Orlando to life. The novel is titled Orlando: A Biography. I think it is the biography of Knole.

One other odd feature: My edition (Signet Classics) has in index. This is the first novel I've read with an index. This suggests to me that Orlando is more than a novel, it is also a history of sorts.

Telescopic time........2006-12-20

This is a review among many reviews and will leave out the tale of the story assuming it has already been read here. This tremendous novel is one of my two favorites. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez also luxuriously takes the reader through a lifetime that lasts many lifetimes in length. The reader becomes a traveler through a society, culture and location while watching time fly by at a rate 2-5 times that of the lives we actually live. Both stories give the reader a sense that judgement about experience can extend to generations of experience and not just to one's single, private, say, 80 year period. The benefit of reading these books, to young readers who are trying to stretch their own personal horizons, is beyond belief.

Each story is a gift from it's author on a level seen almost no where else. With all modesty I'll say that they are imaginative, funny and compelling.

Another text that transcends the perspective of one lifetime in one person's viewfinder is "Foundation and it's Trilogy" although that work of science fiction is simply not in the class of literature of the other two.

Search for Meaning in Society's Norms.......2006-09-06

What is perhaps most telling about Virginia Woolf's book Orlando is the way it forces the reader to take stock of what society tells us our lives are supposed to be like. There are certain societal norms, accepted lifestyles and beliefs, and when the individual steps outside of those norms, he or she is treated differently. Based on Orlando's identity, the society she lives in expects specific behaviors from her in the areas of business, society, and love, "that each man and each woman has another allotted to it for life." Her search for meaning amidst those expectations is what ends up being Orlando's pursuit for meaning in life.

Reviewed by Jonathan Stephens

great read.......2006-08-10

i read the book after watching the film (4 times) and found it just as wonderful as the film. orlando is a character that never grows tiresome and although she is very old, everything seems to be new and fresh in her eyes. also, the reflections on how gender roles affect us and how we are seen were fascinating. i love the way the book is written as well-with woolf commenting as the biographer-because it adds to the plot and helps to organize orlando's crazy life and her many emotions. i think many people do not give this book a fair chance since the subject matter is a bit different than the norm (a 400-year-old who is born a boy and then turns into a girl) but i challenge anyone to read this book and not find at least one thing they can relate to.

Not just a city in Florida! .......2006-06-17

After that light title for the review, allow me to stress that *Orlando* is one of my favorite, favorite books. I've probably read it 20 times. I'm always astonished again by how much character and life and plot and gorgeous prose that Woolf packed into so few pages.

SUMMARY: Orlando, the title character, begins life as a lad in Elizabethan England in 1588 and ends the book as a woman thirty-six years older in 1928.

Much has been made of the fact that Orlando changes gender and ages magically slowly during the 340 years that the book covers. The effects of the gender switch play beautifully against society and society's changes. Orlando the character is probably based on Vita Sackville-West, Woolf's lesbian lover who cross-dressed, and the gender switch is seen to embody both the masculine and feminine aspects of her. Modernism, the art movement that best characterizes Woolf, is concerned with society and the person's role in it. Woolf managed to play both sides by introducing a character who was both male and female.

All this is true, but I believe that there is another layer to the book beyond mere gender role exploration and modernist games. Orlando is a book about being a reader, about a life spent as a reader. When one reads great literature, one experiences what it is like to be both a man and a woman, to live the span of many lifetimes, to have experiences as varied as traveling to Istanbul by ship and giving birth to a child and hacking at the head of a Moor swinging from the ceiling and being the lover of a queen and being in love with a man. Of course, a writer is a reader moved to emulation, and Orlando is a writer. After centuries of composition (and that's what it feels like sometimes!), *The Oak Tree,* Orlando's epic poem, is finally accepted for publication.

Most of the time, when I read a great book, I understand the mind and the soul of the writer better when I'm done. Reading a book about being a reader may seem a tautology, but in this case, I feel like Virginia Woolf understood *me,* and my life as a reader, almost eighty years after the publication of *Orlando.*

TK Kenyon

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Lord of the Ring
David, you made me CRY!
An awesome book !! God has a plan and purpose for us all!!
If you have ever wanted to be more or do more, read this!!

Just As I Am: The Life of David Ring
David Ring
Manufacturer: Moody Publishers
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David Ring was born dead. For eighteen minutes after his delivery, his brain was deprived of oxygen, leaving him with cerebral palsy, a malady that affects his motor skills and speech.He lived the first fourteen years of his life totally dependent on the love and self-sacrifice of his mother. She was his motivation. His cheer-leader. But when she died, he was passed from family member to family member, his confidence shattered and his hopes for the future, dismal. That was, until he met Jesus and his life became a dynamic challenge for all who call themselves followers of Jesus Christ. Just As I Am tells the story of this enthusiastic man. He has overcome gigantic obstacles, achieved things no one ever deemed possible - all through the grace and mercy of Jesus Christ. His life was changed, and yours can be too. People throw away broken things, but God uses them. Don't ask why, ask what can I become. When you ask why, you question God's authority, you become bitter. God loves you, and nothing happens that He does not ordain. At the burning bush God told Moses to put down his stick, but Moses wouldn't put it down. What is your stick?

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Lord of the Ring.......2005-05-09

Ever heard of David Ring? Well, he's a Christian evangelist who also has cerebral palsy. Listen to him sometime. He'll make you feel very uncomfortable at first, but he'll leave you encouraged and pumped to serve Christ.

His autobiography JUST AS I AM (same title Billy Graham used for his) is a fascinating read. It's very difficult to put down even for the slow, undisciplined readers like myself. His motto is: "I have cerebral palsy. What's your problem?" In other words, I have cerebral palsy, therefore I don't fit into normal American society. But I'm not letting it hold me back. I still working and fighting as hard as I can to serve the Lord. So, what's your excuse?

This message which is the focal point of David Ring's ministry initially makes the life-long church-goer very uncomfortable. But if you listen, and act, this is a message which will change your life.

I highly recommend this book. It's not one you'll easily forget.

David, you made me CRY!.......2003-01-01

Reading this book a year ago didn't keep my eyes dry, but kept them wet - all the time. I LOVED the stories about how his life was, how he found love in God, made a GREAT, LOVING FAMILY .... and how he didn't give up on his dreams.
For those who haven't read this - SHOULD, and DON'T FORGET TO GRAB A BOX OF TISSUES WITH YOU!
(I'm going to go tell my FRIENDS about this book and have THEM read this book!)

An awesome book !! God has a plan and purpose for us all!!.......1998-08-24

If you have ever heard David Ring speak, you must read this book. It is a powerful demonstration how God has a specific plan for each of us! I read it in one day...could not put it down.

If you have ever wanted to be more or do more, read this!!.......1997-01-30

The life of David Ring is a phenomenal one. This book will make you laugh, cry, smile, and frown. It will inspire you. You will understand what it means when people say that God accepts us just the way we are. David is an inspiration to everyone who meets him and gets to know this incredible man of God

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Orlando (Annotated): A Biography
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Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West, part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition will deepen readers' understanding of Woolf's brilliant creation.

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Halfway to Paradise
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great.......2006-11-10

well all i can say is my daughter has read that book like 20 times already so it must be good HAHAHA

WOW ORLI!!!!.......2005-02-15

This book captures EVERYTHING about the hot Orlando Bloom. This is THE book to buy.

stupid book.......2004-12-22

I got this book bc i totally love orlando bloom....like he is my faaaaav actor!! but this book was a total, and i mean total dissapointment. i guess this first time author has no clue what they are doing. they should take a few more writing classes before writing another book.

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A great read for any Orlando Fan. Interesting facts and stories that i did not know before reading. If you are a fan of Bloom, you should deffinately give it a look

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Willcox-Not Forgotten Anymore
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Willcox-Not Forgotten Anymore.......2000-04-22

This is truly an enjoyable book. I certainly got a "kick" from his letters. I read two or three of the chapters several times. One thing I noticed about him from his writings was the hidden and totally unintentional secrets he exposed regarding his personality. I think the man was a "saint," because he revealed absolutely no vices or bad habits, as well as he was the ultimate possessor of Victorian manners. I spoke with a friend of mine, who also read the book, and he had the same impression of Willcox that I got. This book will make you appreciate the man once you get to know him more personally. I have quoted Willcox before, in my own writings, gleaned from other books, and from the Official Records, but until I read his personal letters, I never knew who he was. Mr. Scott should be commended for all of his hard work bringing these letters to life.

Forgotten No More.......1999-12-04

Orlando Willcox's voluminous memoirs, letters, and correspondence are an important, valuable contribution to our understanding of the Civil War. Covering his life in the army from his days at West Point in the 1840's through divisional command in both theaters of the Civil War, this magesterial compilation will interest specialists and buffs alike. Willcox's keen observations and trenchant comments on persons and events are reminiscent of the classic recollections of Charles Wainwright, E.P. Alexander, and Robert McAllister. Robert Garth Scott's judicious editing (footnotes are blessedly placed at the bottom of pages rather than the end of the book) greatly enhances what will instantly become a standard source for anyone seeking a greater knowledge of the American conflict. The price may seem hefty, but it is well worth the cost.

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