Penguin Essentials Mrs Dalloway

Giving up at ~65%. I was going to try and complete this, but I know that I would only continue flipping through the pages and basically just pretend to read.

I didn't like this at all, from the very first page. The prose is very stylized (as in, by the end of the second page I'm pretty sure about 15 or 20 semi-colons had already been used) and choppy, and it nearly completely obscured my ability to absorb anything cohesive. On top of that, the narrative floats from mind to mind without warning or any clear difference in how characters think (since everyone's brains are just full of semi-colons and sentence fragments), and it made it impossible for me to care about anything that was happening (or appreciate any beautiful lines or ideas that may have been buried by the surrounding mess).