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    <body><![CDATA[I took today off work because I need to put everything I own into boxes so I can move tomorrow, but obviously I can't begin doing that until I get some of these obsessive thoughts about Proust out of my system. I mean, can I? Nope. I can't! After all, this house is where I read Proust -- wait, I rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65635811">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[When you read Proust, and learn to appreciate his extraordinary, dreamy, hypnotic, truly inimitable style (this review is a mere shadow on the wall of a Platonic cave), which succeeds in making the syntax of language, usually as invisible as air, into a tangible element, so that, like literary yogis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/57229624">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1980</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[        “À la recherche du temps perdu,” was Proust’s title for his major opus. First translated as “Remembrance of Things Past,” it was later, perhaps more accurately, if not as resonantly, called, “In Search of Lost Time.” <br/>     Graham Greene called him the greatest novelist of...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47674524">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because of <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Timothy Baycroft" title=" Timothy Baycroft"> Timothy Baycroft</a>. I took his module on the Third Republic in France, HST234, in the first semester of my second year. I asked his advice on what novel to read to gain a better understanding of the period. À La Recherche Du Temps Perdu was his recommendation. And so it began....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22569368">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I know I've been blabbering about it for a while, but this was the first fiction I read in years that had that same charm for me that novels had when I was young.  I completely lost myself in them.  I'm ready to start them over but I have to get through a certain amount of my sabbatical work first :...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46568446">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Who knew that bisexual French shut-ins knew everything?  Ok, so maybe just everything about love and jealousy and memory and thought and being a person in the world.  The new Proust translation is the alpha and the omega.  The Fugitive has some strangle plot parts but the phrasing, imagery, pitch-pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4008857">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32542203">
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Every page of this book is packed with gorgeous, poetic writing and jaw-dropping, often hilarious psychological observation. Proust does not prop himself up with over-complex structures, is not confusing, is not gratuitously strange. He understood life preternaturally well and wrote about it pretern...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32542203">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A long, arduous read.<br/>Marcel <em> the author </em> fills the novel with decadent, superfluous details, and after reading it, one realizes Marcel <em> the narrator </em> has told us both everything and nothing at all.  The &quot;detailed recollection [of Combray:]&quot; is so rich in context that by the time one ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59437695">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I finished the six pack more than a week ago and I have been thinking about what to write since then.  Time has passed and my thoughts have not become any more profound; however, I will not procrastinate any longer.  Aside from feeling somewhat proud about reading the series of over a million and a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48503571">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[a very beautiful boredom slowly and elegantly floats around like a chain of lazy smokes in windless dim-lighted bedroom searching for immortality of artistic creation]]></body>
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    <review id="56723361">
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't speak French, so I'm reading a translation.  A lot of Europeans would tell you I wasn't really reading it at all since I was reading a translation, but that's why they're all a bunch of faggots.<br/><br/>This is a great book to say you're reading, because everyone knows it's really, really l...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56723361">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="17947797">
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    <body><![CDATA[The volume I am reading is very dense and contains Swann's Way, Within a Budding Grove, and The Guermantes Way.  It was re-bound by the Seattle Public Library in denim blue.  One of my housemates gave it to me.  She hitchhiked from Seattle back to New Orleans with both volumes in her backpack.  The ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17947797">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="2010903">
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 15 15:11:34 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Jun 17 11:02:50 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is good reading if you have huge chunks of captive free time (like my 50 minute train commute).If you cannot dedicate at least 1.5 hrs a day, 4-5 days a week to reading, it is probably not worth starting. At that pace, I finished the novel in about 4 months with a week break between each v...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2010903">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="16629465">
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    <body><![CDATA[I read the whole damn thing, for which I feel like demanding a medal.  A famous quote about this work goes, &quot;I may be thicker skinned than most, but I just can't understand why anyone should take thirty pages to describe how he tosses about in bed because he can't get to sleep. I clutched my he...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16629465">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="43003774">
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    <body><![CDATA[this whole massive work is like so many different books at once: for a while there is sleepy prose, then a satire on the aristocracy, discussion of gay rights and racial prejudice, then more achingly beautiful pages. throughout the book it is the reader's memory along with the narrator's that layers...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43003774">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="29163337">
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    <body><![CDATA[Remembrances of Things Past is the definition of a difficult book. Epic in scope, scale and length, it challenges the mind and the patience. That it is one of the greatest accomplishments in literature in the history of man kin is unquestionable. Where that leaves the reader is up to debate. It is i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29163337">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There's an entire study course here. The most enjoyable volumes are early and Time Regained at the end, which is amusing and wry. The Captive and the other volume all about obsessive love are too closed and dull.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Well worth the work.  Proust is a must.  Patient and thoughtful explanation of some of the most core and &quot;true&quot; aspects of humankind.  Elegant and thoroughly enjoyable.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the book's prose is beautiful but dense.<br/>at first it's very hard to get into, but really enjoyed it.<br/>i loved the unexpected changes in characters' behavior.]]></body>
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