I drink my coffee in large cups and short sips. It usually takes me at least an hour (even two - when I'm reading) to finish it. Reading Proust was like drinking coffee. I absolutely enjoyed it but I wasn't able to read more than 20-30 pages in one sitting and so it took me about half a month to fin...
2013 update to 2008 review.Five years of time and reading has given me a very different perspective on this Proust. I'll re-visit this review after reading the book again, which will probably happen after I slowly work my way through the other books in the series. At this point I've finished In the ...
I'm ashamed to say I had to admit defeat with this.It is so introspective without even being very enlightening, let alone driving the plot that I became inured to the skill and beauty of the language by the struggle to understand it.
I really wanted to like this book, but I just kept dozing off. Lovely poetic nothing happens for page after gorgeous page, while the the Jurassic era becomes the Cretaceous, colonies of brachiopods harden into cliff faces and the cool afternoon sun slants in on the morning of the Cenozoic.I think s...
Book Circle Reads 145Rating: 5* of fiveThe Book Description: Penguin really skimped on this one--Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most entertaining reading experiences in any language and arguably the finest novel of the twentieth century. But since its original prewar translatio...
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