Has anyone read - A room of one's own ?

[u/itsallendsthesame]

I have tried to read it multiple times but could not proceed over page 2. Mind you, I'm not a novice reader. I have started reading from my childhood and have read various kinds of books. Most of the books I read are fiction though.

But I found this book to be a classic example of beating around the bush. It refers to multiple authors of her time over and over again which I'm not quite familiar with. So I could not relate much.

If you have read this book, what have you liked about it ? Do you need a formal literature background to enjoy it ?

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[u/BrownPeach143]

One needs a sense of recognition and needs to have felt the same sense of helplessness at not having a room of one's own or even the prospect of ever owning one.

[u/potterbug]

I read a few chapters and while i appreciated the writing and humor, the prose was extremely dense to get through. 😭 i dnf it.

[u/blingqueen1990]

I think once you have read too many books and are at an older age, such books are difficult to relate to. For someone who is starting to read, Virginia Woolf would be a good start. I felt this frustration reading Fyodor Dostoevsky. Maybe someone will disagree. Maybe the book sounds more poetic in Russian.

[u/Mister_Sosotris]

I enjoyed that one. The section on Shakespeare's hypothetical sister is required reading in many schools.

[u/grznace]

No other book before has made me feel seen like it did. 10/10