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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[AFTER:<br/><br/>Okay, well, I really screwed up my schedule this weekend, so now it's the latening am and nothing's happening for me in the sleep department. Honestly I can't think of a more appropriate time to review this book, which begins with insomnia.<br/><br/>This was great. It really was....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12051434">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Wed Aug 20 19:28:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I’m on a life raft floating across a sea of words, pulled into swirling tidal pools to observe the rich, vibrant forms spawning like phantasmagoric aliens (forms that once appeared mundane but only because, previously, no one had observed them as closely), pulled deep down by the undertow—note t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30736859">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 30 16:04:07 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Nov 30 16:19:23 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9780642">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3702225">
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jul 28 09:07:43 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 31 09:27:39 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't even know where to begin writing about (much less reviewing, gasp) the first volume of Proust's masterpiece.  So I'm copying and pasting an article about it from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://salon.com">salon.com</a> that I found entertaining and witty.  It's long (though I had to cut over 3,000 words to make it fit), but if you're ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3702225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="739537">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[prose fanatics]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 15 23:38:02 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Apr 15 23:42:33 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I can pretty much honestly tell you this book has the most beautiful, ornate language I have ever read outside of Shakespeare.  I recommend the Scott Moncrieff translation, if you care about such things.  While this book is part of a seven part series, this is the only one I've read.  I won't lie: i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/739537">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5921893">
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1975</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Sep 08 20:19:41 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Sep 08 20:19:41 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[It took me nearly 30 years to finish &quot;Remembrance of Things Past&quot; (but it was worth it!) and I always say that one of the reasons was that every time I set it aside I wanted to start back up from the beginning again. The reason? The bulk of &quot;Swann's Way&quot; is a self-contained novel...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5921893">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="20622549">
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  <read_at>Sat Nov 22 10:09:41 -0800 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Apr 20 23:19:37 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Nov 22 10:09:41 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[holy good god, nevermind the whole &quot;one of the greatest works of modern literature&quot; spiel, or mind it, because it's probably true, but more practically: this has got to be one of the most pleasurable reading experiences out there.  it's been a while since i've read the Montcrief translatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20622549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1651232">
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    <name><![CDATA[David]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 04 11:24:45 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Jun 04 11:31:02 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[most important is that you read the translation by c.k. scott moncrieff.  the new translation by lydia davis is apparently much more true to proust's writing.  it turns out that there was a gain in translation.  so much so, that someone who read the french version and moncrieff's translation said th...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1651232">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="5038879">
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    <name><![CDATA[Sam]]></name>
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      <rating>1</rating>
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Aug 23 19:49:56 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Aug 23 20:07:05 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[There wouldn't happen to be a Proust-Hater's Club around here, would there?<br/><br/>&quot;Swann's Way&quot; is awful.  I kept hearing people fawn over it, so I read it all the way through, just to make sure.  I am in the process of reading the entire set.  There are so many books, each with so ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5038879">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="59775345">
    <user id="186853">
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  <read_at>Sat Jul 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jun 15 13:37:56 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jul 14 15:33:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Something about Marcel, the narrator of <em>Swann’s Way</em>, reminds me of Michael Jackson.  Maybe it’s because, (since he just recently died of mysterious, drug induced causes), wherever I go I’m hearing <em>Rockin’ Robin</em> or <em>Ben</em> or <em>Billy Jean</em> and I'm applying a Michael Jackson spin to everything in lif...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59775345">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2582700">
    <user id="66632">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Jun 30 22:48:08 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Aug 21 09:20:03 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[    Reading &quot;Swann's Way&quot; was simultaneously one of the most enlightening and most disheartening things I've ever done.  The enlightening part should be obvious - never in modern literature has someone dealt so eloquently with issues of memory, love, nostalgia, etc.  There is his famous ep...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2582700">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="8428752">
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    <name><![CDATA[Katelyn Ann]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Oct 30 06:29:31 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Nov 15 12:07:30 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every semester I find a good long novel that I read for a couple of months on end, simply to keep me sane amid the sea of required reading and writing.  That said, I also tend to like any lengthy novel I read, whether it fits my usual criteria or not - by the time i finish, I feel I'm losing a close...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8428752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="6920297">
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  <read_at>Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the most frustrating, time-consuming, difficult, rewarding, and profound novel I've ever read.<br/><br/>The language is just stunning. Proust has this way of making everything, even things you've seen and experienced many times, seem just completely new and vibrant and meaningful.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6920297">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="63140686">
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63140686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="48060565">
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  <read_at>Thu Mar 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Sun Mar 08 00:16:22 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've had a few false starts with this book over the last year or so, but this time something clicked. I love it, and I'm starting to appreciate why Proust is so highly regarded. This is more than a novel - it's a work of philosophy, of psychology, of artistic criticism, of musical appreciation, all ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48060565">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="28778235">
    <user id="735341">
    <name><![CDATA[Arthur]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Aug 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Aug 28 23:20:38 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good story about ego quality; suppose it benefits to rationalize man is not a being totally alone but his friends are somewhere in this world. Clandestine writer writing presage passages so firm and kindled likable persons take some personal flight or fanciful envy themselves to characteristically t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28778235">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So I was on the Brooklyn-bound L train going to Morgan Ave., reading this edition of Swann's Way, when a girl comes up to me, squinting at the cover, then raspberrys* in the direction of the book and gives it a thumbs down.  Somehow it is clear she is decrying the translation, and I kind of politely...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6890960">more...</a>]]></body>
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