Book · 1927 · Fiction
To the Lighthouse
- mentions
- 11
- people
- 7
- podcasts
- 4
- episodes
- 8
- recommendations
- 3
You find something new every time you read it. You think about life, death, the human condition, what is love, what is family?
What they say about it
- Favorite classic book2
- Discusses reading experience“find something new every time”2
The best things said about it
My book that I'm evangelist for is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
So my favorite class classic is to the lighthouse by Virginia wolf.
To the Lighthouse is like a dream state.
It made me think of Virginia wolf into the lighthouse which I feel feels like Galaxy brain number one I mentioned how much I loved um till lighthouse in the last book club episode.
Where and when it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
7 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is a modernist novel exploring themes of art, time, family, and the human condition through the experiences of the Ramsay family. On The Book Review, Jen Salai named the novel as a foundational and beloved book she is an evangelist for, and MJ Franklin recommended it as her favorite classic. On The Tim Ferriss Show, Claire Hughes Johnson praised the work because readers can find something new in it every time, prompting reflections on life, death, love, family, and Woolf's status as a major novelist. Dick Costolo cited the book on the Big Technology Podcast while arguing that literature helps people stop living lives of comparison and chasing phantoms. Clint Bentley mentioned picking up the book to read for the first time, while Tim Ferriss and Claire Hughes Johnson discussed its significance in relation to Woolf's other writings, such as Mrs. Dalloway, and Hughes Johnson's college thesis.
Every mention
Claire Hughes Johnson But I think To the Lighthouse, you find something new every time you read it. You think about life, death,… 3
Discussed
“But I think To the Lighthouse, most people would say, is her most important novel. I will be honest with you and say when I wrote my thesis in college, I was going to write it on To the Lighthouse, and then I actually decided to write it on Mrs. Dalloway, which is another one of her novels because I”
Discussed
“It has some repetition in it, some beautiful rhythm in the writing where you're like, oh, and I'm coming back around in this circular way to the way the story sort of moves you. To the Lighthouse is like a dream state.”
Recommended
“But I think To the Lighthouse, you find something new every time you read it. You think about life, death, the human condition, what is love, what is family?”
MJ Franklin so my favorite class classic is to the lighthouse by Virginia wolf 2
Discussed
“it made me think of Virginia wolf into the lighthouse which I feel feels like Galaxy brain number one I mentioned how much I loved um till lighthouse in the last book club episode”
Recommended
“so my favorite class classic is to the lighthouse by Virginia wolf”
Clint Bentley One that I've got here that I just picked up that I sadly have never read to the lighthouse. Oh, wow. I've… 1
Discussed
“One that I've got here that I just picked up that I sadly have never read to the lighthouse. Oh, wow. I've I've read like uh you know, I've read Virginia Woolf's prose, but I've never read a full book by her and so and so I just picked up have a copy there?”
Dick Costolo And literature is filled with these, "Hey man, stop chasing ghosts. Stop looking Stop living a life of comp… 1
Discussed
“And literature is filled with these, "Hey man, stop chasing ghosts. Stop looking Stop living a life of comparison and chasing ghosts and and you know, this phantom thing you're think you're supposed to have." Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse”
Pamela Paul so she assigned to the lighthouse I think I read three pages and I was like I never Reading Virginia wolf a… 1
Critiqued
“so she assigned to the lighthouse I think I read three pages and I was like I never Reading Virginia wolf again”
Russ Roberts that also reference uh i think it's in virginia woolf's novel to the lighthouse is that the name of the boo… 1
Discussed
“that also reference uh i think it's in virginia woolf's novel to the lighthouse is that the name of the book is it to the light i think it's to the white house”
Tim Ferriss Let's talk about a non-business book, and that book is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. What is your hi… 1
Discussed
“Let's talk about a non-business book, and that book is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. What is your history with this book and why do you recommend it?”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Recommended
“My book that I'm evangelist for is To the Lighthouse by Virginia Wolf.”
Other mentions (2: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“this technique which allows Melville to write Moby Dick and wolf to write to the lighthouse”
Passing
“Experimental innovators, meanwhile, build up to their masterpieces. Virginia Woolf was 44 when she wrote To the Lighthouse.”