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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Guermantes Way</em> is my favorite volume in <em>A la recherche du temps perdu</em>. It's the one where Marcel (the surrogate narrator for Proust) first enters into fashionable Parisian society as a young man and becomes acquainted with the Duc et Duchesse (Oriane) de Guermantes -- the ultra-power-couple of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34544475">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[in the strange world that us readers writers book-report-makers and reviewers inhabit, proust is considered one of - if not <em>the</em> - best. so we really must hold him to the highest standard, eh? his sentences. unassailable? well, when marcel gets rolling on one of those proustian digressions, there rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68384608">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In the first two volumes (I argue, anyway, in <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38375494.">my review of <em>A L'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles En Fleurs</em></a>), Proust was most interested in putting romantic relationships under the microscope. He returns to that theme later on in the series, but in the third book I think he is primarily concerned with picking ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/38375514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first two volumes of this novel blew me away.  This third novel was admittedly tougher for me personally.  I got halfway through it the summer before grad school, put it down the day before math camp, and didn't pick it up again until two months after I graduated.  Losing my momentum made it ver...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1190135">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well, it's not as good as &quot;Swann's Way,&quot; but better than &quot;In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower.&quot; Comparing them is kind of ridiculous, though, since Proust is one of the best writers I've ever read. Here's an Emily Dickinson poem:<br/><br/>A Thought went up my mind today -<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10540882">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do think of this as one long novel, not seven.  It is the best novel I've read (I'm about half-way through).  Proust goes right past the normal terms/constraints of writing.  I almost wouldn't call it a &quot;novel&quot; in the ordinary sense.  But it is very much a novel, which is an important pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10092144">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't enjoy this book as much as I liked Swann's Way and Within A Budding Grove.  The first half of the book was pretty good, and had some very funny parts, but the second half really dragged on forever, as 300+ pages of it consisted of the narrator's being present at this incredibly snobbish and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9953620">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite my initial reluctance to pick up where I left off by reading a new translation, I was very relieved to find out that the new version is actually very good.  I'm planning to read the next volume in the new translation as well, but I'll finish off the remaining two with the good old Moncrieff ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/171324">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[As I neared the end of this volume, I was able for the first time to feel, rather than simply be aware of that fact that this is one long work rather than 7, to the point that it is pointless and maybe not possible to chose favorites. But compartmentalization, analogies and categories are inherent b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19928740">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After being a little disappointed in the second volume of Proust, this one returns to the absolute wonderfulness of <em>Swanns Way</em>.  I noticed that another reviewer commented on the addictive quality of Proust and I have to agree.  A few weeks ago when I started <em>Swanns Way</em> I figured I'd read one of his ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34130367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[By far my favorite installment of <em>In Search of Lost Time </em>, this volume recalled the almost tangible luxury I felt when reading &quot;Combray I&quot; and &quot;Combray II&quot; in <em>Swann's Way </em> but with the incredible ear for dialog and tongue-in-cheek humor that characterized &quot;Swann in Love.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32696968">more...</a>]]></body>
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